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 2012 social survey showed 25% of respondents felt they have been discriminated against in some form in the past year.
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In 2006, the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) found that Americans were almost equally divided on this question (52% in favor, 48% against).
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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.
The annual social survey, published in December 2012, found people wanted the government to tackle migration as a priority ahead of providing affordable homes and jobs.
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.
The part centered on identifying the customer value of social media fans requires a committed undertaking of the business itself, whether by using social survey tools to apply to its community for answers on purchase habits, or matching existing databases to social community data, or incorporating social media into media mix attribution modeling.
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.
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Public satisfaction with the NHS appears to have stabilised following a record fall, according to the British Social Attitudes Survey.
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The British Social Attitudes Survey indicated that public satisfaction with the NHS fell from 70% to 58% last year - the largest annual drop since it started in 1983.
Those looking for something more authoritative might be interested in the annual Social Attitudes Survey, which distils the responses of over 80, 000 people to a variety of questions on politics, economics and society.
New figures from the British Social Attitudes survey - published alongside the poll - suggest that about half of Britons as a whole have a religious affiliation, sharply down from 20 years ago when it was two-thirds.
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Baltimore based social marketing platform SocialToaster recently conducted a survey of 3, 000 social media experts and industry professionals, asking them to rank the most influential people online in 2012.
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The survey of social services departments in England by 78 authorities found that there was a 14.7% vacancy rate of social worker posts in July.
In fact, 64 percent of employers in a recent CareerBuilder.com survey found social interview skills and the ability to communicate well as the most important assets in a potential employee.
She added that a survey of social workers last year had shown they felt cases of neglect were the most likely to be downgraded or "fall to the bottom of the pile".
In its recently published annual survey of social trends, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said (strangely inconsistently with the tenor of allegations made by General Xiong and other officials) that terrorism had not been a serious problem in the past few years.
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