According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to surveys, uranium is also found in large quantities in the Buurhakaba region.

According to several surveys from 2006 to 2008, Zurich was named the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe.

According to the University of Pennsylvania rankings – a result of surveys from 1500 scholars and peer review evaluation – the Center for Economic and Social Development ( CESD ) is one of the top 25 think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe, including CIS.

According to surveys, it is common for people to feel their dreams are predicting subsequent life events.

According to surveys conducted internationally by the World Bank for their World Development Report 2011, by far the most common reason people suggest as a motive for joining gangs is unemployment.

According to the original surveys of Illinois, in the early 19th century, the Lusk's Ferry Road ran through the middle of what is now Royalton, heading on a diagonal line toward the southeast.

According to surveys conducted in 2006 by the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, the city sees a 30 – 50 % increase in sales and visitors during the event.

According to U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges index, " In guidebooks and surveys by U. S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and others, SU consistently ranks in the top 10 percent of public and private institutions nationwide.

According to population surveys conducted in British Mandate Palestine, Beisan consisted of 5, 080 Muslim Arabs out of a population of 5, 540 ( 92 % of the population ), with the remainder being listed as Christians.

According to polls / surveys conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada's public broadcaster ), Tommy Douglas has been consistently voted as " The Most Important Canadian " for three years in a row.

According to the surveys of Phil Zuckerman on Adherents. com in 1993 ; there was 59 % ( over 700 million ) of the Chinese population was irreligious and 8 % – 14 % was atheist ( from over 100 to 180 million ) as of 2005.

According to several surveys, the augmentation of a prescribed SSRI with bupropion is the preferred strategy among clinicians when the patient does not respond to the SSRI.

According to surveys carried out by TNS Emor, the party has lost all its support ( 0 % in April and May 2012 ).

According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of Bismarcks armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from King George V and two on the port side from Rodney.

According to recent surveys, 80 percent of Americans identify with a religious denomination and 36 percent state that they attend services nearly every week or more.

According to surveys the most prominent television presenter in the country is former alpine skiier Armin Assinger who is the host of the " Millionen-Show ", Austria's version of Who wants to be a millionaire.

According to IDC surveys, employees " often feel that IM gives their workdays the kind of ' flow ' that they feel when sitting directly among their colleagues, being able to ask questions of them, and getting the kind of quick responses that allow them to drive on to the next task.

According to the District surveys the areas of the two Provinces are, in square miles: Agra, 83, 198 ; Oudh, 23, 966 ; total, 107, 164.

According to surveys done by sectools. org, Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner, taking first place in the 2000, 2003, and 2006 security tools survey.

According to the report, nationally representative surveys conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in 2005 to 2007 found that 42 to 49 percent of HSA-eligible plan enrollees did not open HSAs in those years.

According to 1 Kings 12. c 26 – 30, Jeroboam surveys the pious rituals of the Israelites relative to sacrifices.

According to IANDS, surveys ( conducted in USA, Australia and Germany ) suggest that 4 to 15 % of the population have had NDEs.

According to a World Bank official, 30 percent of Armenia's economy in 2009 came from the construction sector.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 4. 174, ranking it first among 255 journals in the category " Mathematics ".

According to the 2009 CIA World Factbook, there are a total of 43 airports in Belgium, 27 of which have paved runways.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to Okrent ( 2009, p. 190 ), there was a final period of conflict, as Bliss would make continuous criticisms to McNaughton often followed by apologies.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the CIA World FactBook, the GDP contracted an estimated-1. 7 % in 2009.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

According to Wikileaks CableGate documents ( reference ID " 09LONDON1156 "), in a calculated move planned in 2009, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a " marine reserve " with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

* According to the June 2009 update of the Cisco Visual Networking Index IP traffic forecast, by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte or 667 exabytes.

* According to the Digital Britain Report, 494 exabytes of data was transferred across the globe on June 15, 2009.

According to NOAA, El Niño conditions were in place in the equatorial Pacific Ocean starting June 2009, peaking in January – February.

* God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-06-171015-5.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban and other militants were responsible for 76 % of civilian casualties in 2009, 75 % in 2010 and 80 % in 2011.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the world record for the " Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert " as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, real GDP growth reduced from 8 % to 2. 7 % in 2009, and exports shrunk 26 % from $ 2. 5Bn to $ 1. 9Bn after a promisingly steady increase up until 2008.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.