Gallup's honeypot has attracted a swarm of competitors, among them Development Dimensions International, Hewitt Associates and International Survey Research.
The rankings, performed for CR by the the nonprofit accreditation group NCQA, uses survey research to measure member satisfaction.
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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.
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Personal finance issues were cited as the top concern among boomers in a national survey conducted for the American Association of Retired Persons by Princeton Survey Research Associates.
Resonate performs large scale waves of online survey research, which is integrated with data sources providing online behavioral data, purchase behavior and a vast array of other audience characteristics.
"This study underscores the enduring importance of sex among older men and women, even among these who report infrequent sexual activity, " said Neal Cutler, NCOA's director of survey research.
James Bell, director of international survey research at Pew, said Chinese people who said they like American ideas about democracy were more likely to say they are closely following the election.
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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.
This demand comes after US Geological Survey research suggested up to 40, 000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) of oil a day may have been escaping before the cap was put on - doubling earlier estimates.
The poll involved interviews with 311 New Hampshire residents who say they will vote in the 2008 Republican primary conducted by telephone by the University of New Hampshire Survey Research Center on February 1-5, 2007.
To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .
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According to a survey from research firm Jupiter, around 44% of hotspot sessions take part in hotels compared to just 20% in cafes and bars.
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.
Among his own statistics, Mr. Schiller cited a survey from research firm ChangeWave that found that around three-quarters of iPhone users say they are "very satisfied" with their device compared with around half of Android users.
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The survey quotes research that says closing the male-female employment gap would have huge economic implications for developed economies, boosting U.S. GDP by as much as 9%, eurozone GDP by as much as 13% and Japanese GDP by as much as 16%.
This trend is supported by a recent survey by Pew Research Center.
In a recent Pew Research survey, support has climbed to 64%, and 49% now believe it should be developed immediately.
Meanwhile, Father's Day spending is expected to drop 5% this year from 2008, according to a recent survey from market research firm Brand Keys.
More than a third of institutional investment-management firms use expert networks, according to a late 2009 survey by Integrity Research Associates in New York.
Even if the Durbin Amendment is implemented as planned, a Javelin Strategy and Research survey suggests that consumers doubt they will see any benefits.
Babson Research Survey Group and College Board estimate that in the fall of 2010 6.1 million students took at least one online education course.
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There are now more than 600 firms in at least 95 countries involved in making guns or ammunition, according to Small Arms Survey, a research outfit.
The Kelton Research survey on vacation patterns found workers worried about falling behind at work or simply feeling that they had too much to do to step away.
Without driving one, 37% of drivers aged 18 to 37 would definitely or probably buy a vehicle capable of fully autonomous driving, according to a JD Power research survey.
According to the 2010 International Games Survey by market research firm Newzoo, there are 40.1 million people in the U.S. who play games on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
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Earlier this week, news broke that Seattle-based QuestionPro, a leading web-survey and market research company, has acquired Pollbob, a New Orleans-based startup at the forefront of the mobile social polling space.
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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 Pew Hispanic Research survey conducted in January, two-thirds of Hispanics expect to improve their financial status in 2012, while just over half can say the same in the general population.
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