According to the University of Chicago's General Social Survey, in 1977, 54% of American households had guns.
According to the General Social Survey, the public has grown increasingly accepting of gay relationships since the late 1980s.
The General Lifestyle Survey found in that time the proportion owning a house with a mortgage fell from 40% to 35%.
According to the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey in 2010, Hispanics vote at far lower frequencies than other racial and ethnic groups.
For example, the General Social Survey has long found three-quarters of Americans saying everyone should have to get a permit from the local police before buying a gun.
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According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades.
Data from the General Social Survey, for instance, shows businesses with employee stock plans laid off workers at a rate of just 2.6% in 2010, compared with 12.1% at companies without such plans.
The 2010 General Social Survey reported that Hispanics are more than a third likelier than non-Hispanics to say that the government should do more to improve standards of living for the needy (39% to 26%).
That year, the General Social Survey (GSS) found that those who were against higher levels of government redistribution privately gave four times as much money, on average, as people who were in favor of redistribution.
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Using 35 years of data from the General Social Survey, two Wharton School economists, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, made the case in 2009 that women's happiness appeared to be declining over time despite their advances in the work force and education.
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Data gathered between 1996 and 2006 by the University of Chicago's General Social Survey revealed that in the country's 12 largest cities, about 18% of married men and women had more than one partner, compared with 15% of respondents in the corresponding suburban areas.
Mining electoral data from the General Social Survey, they found that the decline in white working-class support for Democrats occurred in one period from the mid-seventies until the early nineties, with a brief lull in the early eighties and has remained well below fifty per cent ever since.
Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.
The report, Public Attitudes Towards the Gaelic Language, followed a survey of the general public and a separate survey of 56 fluent Gaelic speakers.
Given the state of the chip industry in general, the survey's findings are encouraging.
In general, the survey was well received and people were willing to talk, although a few showed reluctance to answer some questions because of a lack of awareness about particular issues.
Some 31% of nurses on general wards in the survey said they were not aware of this being introduced where they worked.
Busse said the general results of the survey were anticipated, but the number of employers who said the most important qualification is experience, exceeded her expectations.
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More work remains to address persistent causes of undercounting, such as poverty, mobility, language isolation, low levels of education, and general awareness of the survey, in addition to duplicate counts among the elderly and college students living away from home.
Specifically, an executive summary of a Defense Department survey was written by the department's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, before the survey was even begun on July 7, 2010.
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This compares with a figure of just 2.6% in a similar survey of the general population.
Increased awareness on laws and regulations: The survey indicated a general lack of awareness of law as one of the deterrents for anti-corruption enforcement.
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For example, a recent national opinion survey of likely general election voters done for Secure America Now by Democratic political strategist Pat Caddell and Republican pollster John McLaughlin established a stunning fact: 96% of Americans consider national security to be important when considering candidates for the presidency, with 67% saying it is very important.
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But this survey will argue that General Musharraf is unlikely to deliver on these crucial promises.
National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Mick Brookes said the survey findings contrasted with previous research showing very few middle managers aspired to headship.
National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower said the survey showed "decisive steps are desperately needed" and that asbestos should be eradicated from all schools.
Last year's Pew survey showed that the general public in America is far more enthusiastic about the occasional use of torture than are security experts, academics or military leaders.
That decision was made after Rangers manager Ron Washington and Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson gathered with other officials, including Rangers CEO Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels, to survey the field.
"The cost of time survey is a good indicator of the general health of the profession on an annual basis and it's clear that the effects of the recession are not over, " she said.
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