In no year since 1992, when the British Crime Survey first included the question, has a majority of people believed that crime has fallen or even remained the same.
In its first survey focused on bank liabilities, the BOE said that it found lenders' capital levels were broadly unchanged in the first three months of the year, despite expectations of an increase, as losses, charges and fines for various wrongdoings ate into profits.
This is the first survey that has posed questions about offensive measures by private enterprise.
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Angst says the first survey of his students was more encouraging than he had expected.
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What can explain this divergence between the first survey and the other two surveys?
Preparations are being made for the first survey of puffins on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, in five years.
Boys are included in this year's survey for the first time as a point of comparison over gender issues.
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Archaeologist Andy Heald said the survey was the first of its kind in the far north of mainland Scotland.
The final August University of Michigan consumer confidence survey and the first revision to second-quarter GDP will be published on Friday.
Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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The rise in building permits also helped boost the LEI, and the Philadelphia Fed Survey had the first positive reading since April.
The tobacco survey is the first of several executive steps in the works to respond to the demise of major anti-tobacco legislation in the Senate.
The first survey into the health of Scottish bees has begun.
According to a survey for London First, a business organisation, 59% of firms term the charge's impact on London's economy as positive or neutral, compared with 26% who say it has been negative.
The new survey, which was conducted in the third quarter of this year, shows that the number of Internet users has nearly tripled since the first survey, which estimated the number of Internet users to be 34 million.
Monitoring SOx fees was the focus of their survey when it was first launched.
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The exhibition was the first substantial survey of Hirst's work, spanning 20 years of his career.
People living in Wales are the most dissatisfied in the UK, the first national survey of well-being suggests.
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce survey, covering the first quarter of 2011, suggested the Scottish economy stalled during the period.
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"Our first QES survey for 2013 shows that across the board, exports either remained strong or improved, " said chamber director Graham Morgan.
The first annual survey published in 2009 coincided with possibly even greater economic global turbulence linked to the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers.
First Byurakan Survey (FBS or Markarian survey, Armenia) , containing the records of a unique astronomical survey carried out by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) from 1965-1980.
He discovered the site in 1967 and returned the following year with a team from Cambridge University to carry out the first ever survey of the submerged town.
BirdLife describes the survey as "the first-ever attempt to list all the sites internationally recognised as the most critically important places for bird and biodiversity conservation in the region".
"Bellows is waiting to be rediscovered, " says the National Gallery's Charles Brock, a curator of the retrospective, the first comprehensive survey of the artist's work in more than three decades.
The Cambodian government has promised that this month it will begin discussing how to protect the Cardamoms following a report due this week on the first biodiversity survey of the area.
When China released its first nationwide survey this year, it found 5.7% of that country's newly diagnosed TB patients were multi-drug-resistant, according to a study published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The new statistic derives from China's first comprehensive national survey on diet, nutrition and diseases, which was conducted by the Ministry of Health.
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