Looking at the results of employee engagement surveys and developing action plans based on them requires looking at the items on the survey in terms of what they measure.
The fall in giving is the largest one-year decline in the survey of individual giving's eight-year history, and the total given is the smallest in real terms since the survey began.
In terms of the survey results, it is important to point out that the results are from a audience poll at a meeting where attendance included about 55 physicians.
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According to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, Switzerland ranks third in terms of gun ownership, behind the United States and Yemen.
Nearly three-quarters of the LPs in the Coller Capital survey reported seeing more willingness to adjust nonfinancial terms and conditions.
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Last year, in IBM's Commuter Pain Survey, Johannesburg was ranked fifth worst in terms of the amount of pain commuters suffer getting to and from work.
Out of 57 countries in a WIN-Gallup global survey on faith and atheism, Ireland ranked 43rd in terms of the population considering itself religious.
The IOC survey in June last year saw Tokyo ranked fourth in terms of popular support within the country, although officials say that has climbed from around 60 to 70% since.
According to a survey by market researcher Brandimensions, consumers saw the sweetheart terms from General Motors, Ford Motor and, to a lesser extent, DaimlerChrysler, as signs that their cars weren't good enough to stand on their own.
In this survey, it nearly equaled data analytics and business intelligence in terms of likely investments.
This makes people who hold other currencies richer in dollar terms and gives foreigners a leg up in the current survey.
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As long as the survey group is a true statistical representation of the country -- in terms of race and gender, for example -- even a small pool of respondents can yield results that are accurate for the whole country.
In terms of money and retirement, which was the point of the survey, this is doubly true.
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For example, in the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey conducted by the Federal Reserve, banks reported having further tightened their lending standards and terms for a broad range of loan types over the past three months.
In the recently published Gartner report CEO and Senior Executive Survey 2013: 21 Top Companies Admired for Competitive IT completed between October and December, 2012, which was part of the 2013 CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, C-level respondents were asked to name the companies they most admired in terms of their ability to apply IT-related business capabilities for competitive advantage.
In the recently published Garter report CEO and Senior Executive Survey 2013: 21 Top Companies Admired for Competitive IT completed between October and December, 2012, which was part of the 2013 CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, C-level respondents were asked to name the companies they most admired in terms of their ability to apply IT-related business capabilities for competitive advantage.
Slightly more than half told the Coller Capital survey last summer that a majority of GPs were making a satisfactory effort to adopt the ILPA guidelines for financial terms.
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