In their Pediatrics paper, MacMillan and co-authors say that 8% to 9% of women and 4% of men reported severe psychological abuse in childhood when the question was posed in general-population surveys of the U.S. and Britain.
Dr Boerma reviewed the results of population-based general-health surveys similar to Kenya's that were carried out in Zambia and Mali, and also a study based on saliva samples that was carried out in South Africa.
From sample surveys, officials estimate the population at the end of 2009 to have been 1.33 billion.
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Disease rates in the general population often come from the CDC, whose surveys often involve people responding in the home or over the phone.
Defa and the Manx Wildlife Trust have already commenced surveys to monitor the island's ash population.
Surveys suggest that around 65% of the population wants lots and lots of channels, while the rest is not that bothered.
Still, some surveys show that it's a minority of the population that places fame ahead of all other priorities in life.
They looked at 114 national dietary surveys covering more than 60% of the world's population.
Every month the BLS takes two surveys relative to employment, the Household Survey (officially titled The Current Population Survey), and the Establishment Survey (The Current Employment Statistics Survey).
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They can provide context they might not know such as time when actions occur, ancillary demographic information about others interested in similar subjects, or surveys, polls, or reviews on an object from both their friends and the wider population.
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According to surveys by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, less than a fifth of the population is aware that India's markets opened up in the early 1990s.
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