According to the U.S. Compensation Planning Survey and research by the compensation consulting firm Mercer, companies plan to offer employees an average pay raise of 2.9 percent.
The Alzheimer's Society has welcomed the survey and said it backs its research about the wishes of dementia sufferers.
The poll was carried out from October 3-5 by the non-partisan McLaughlin and Associates survey research group for the pro-Israel Emergency Committee for Israel.
Conducted by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the survey involved a self-completion questionnaire given to more than 6, 000 post-primary school children in 62 schools.
The estimates were based on registration figures, data from the Labour Force survey and analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Those types of numbers "have been set in stone" since the law's passage in 2010, said Mollyann Brodie, senior vice president for public opinion and survey research for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
And scientists at the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Research Station, on Adelaide Island resorted to banging pots and pans, after discovering their base was "decidedly lacking in anything resembling an actual bell".
According to a new survey from CNN and the Opinion Research Corp.
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The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research and commissioned by Citrix, said the top three reasons why people avoided using the cloud were cost (34%), security concerns (32%), and privacy worries (31%).
The purpose of the research was to survey consumers on the intensity of cool and brand favorability and secondarily, to rate the brands on ten characteristics of cool.
Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research Center and a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.
The survey was financed by the Economic and Social Research Council and undertaken by the ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST).
Data comes from publicly available sources and an annual survey the WEF conducts on related topics that is sent to partner research institutes and business organizations.
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Amazon certainly has people talking about the Kindle platform. since the launch of the eInk based readers they have been coy about actual sales figures, with research firms and survey based analysis attempting to answer the popularity question.
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Right now the British Antarctic Survey is preparing to send off about 150 scientists and personnel for the regular summer research season.
Scribe has seen this in their research results from the latest survey and also in their daily contacts with customers.
Obama has only a seven-point lead over a generic Republican among young voters, according to an April survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University.
Among the most scientific and serious polls was the large-sample survey (844 respondents) by the Pew Research Center from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2.
The EarthView survey, conducted by Frederick Schneiders Research on behalf of the National 4-H Council and Honda, found that teen-agers and baby boomers agree that government and industry are falling short of their environmental obligations and that time is running out to protect the Earth from permanent environmental damage.
The study, by Josh Wiener and colleagues at the research firm RTI International, was based on a national survey that allowed them to follow thousands of people aged 50 and over for 10-12 years.
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The study was done by the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center at the University of Minnesota, the U.S. Geological Survey and the DNR.
You would see some trend in the market and commission a survey or some other form of research.
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Consumers aren't actively seeking deals before buying as often as they were last summer, according to the latest survey from Retail Forward, a consultancy and market research firm specializing in retail strategies.
The survey, called Shape GB and carried out by Select Research, suggests that two current beliefs prevalent among retailers are wrong: that boys' and girls' body shapes do not differ significantly before the age of seven, and that the average height of five-year-old boys is 110cm when it is actually 115cm.
The Fraser Institute, an independent non-partisan research and educational organization based in Canada, releases an annual survey of the best mining jurisdictions in the world.
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In existence since the late 1980s, these firms exploded in popularity over the past decade and, according to a survey taken by Integrity Research, were consulted by some 36% of investment-management firms in 2009.
The " crisis maps" are using data from the US Naval Research Laboratory, the National Hurricane Center, US weather website weather.com and the US Geological Survey.
Part of the research study included a survey of 500 business travellers and executives from the US, United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil and China.
In a 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center, 14% of adults and 22% of adults who send text messages reported being so distracted by their devices that they have physically bumped into an object or person.
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