A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

However, when given a survey of the reasons why they cohabitate most couples listed reasons such as spending more time together, convenience based reasons, and testing their relationships, while few gave the reason that they do not believe in marriage.

A scientific survey, conducted by researchers at Denver University, of over 1, 000 married men and women in the United States of America found those who moved in with a lover before engagement or marriage reported significantly lower quality marriages and a greater possibility of a separation than other couples.

A survey carried out in 2008 showed that 84 % of Irish people supported civil marriage or civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples, with 58 % ( up from 51 %) supporting full marriage rights in registry offices.

A public survey in October 2008 revealed 62 % of adults would vote Yes in a referendum to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples.

In September 2010, an Irish Times / Behaviour Attitudes survey of 1, 006 people showed that 67 % felt that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

A separate question on the same survey found that 86 % of respondents supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 56 % supporting same-sex marriage, 30 % supporting civil unions, 12 % opposing all legal recognition and 2 % not sure.

A separate question on the same survey found that 86 % of respondents supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 55 % supporting same-sex marriage, 31 % supporting civil unions, 12 % opposing all legal recognition and 2 % not sure.

A separate question on the same survey found that 88 % of respondents supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 58 % supporting same-sex marriage, 30 % supporting civil unions, 11 % opposing all legal recognition and 2 % not sure.

A separate question on the same survey found that 79 % of Vermont voters supported the legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 55 % supporting same-sex marriage, 24 % supporting civil unions but not marriage, 18 % favoring no legal recognition and 3 % not sure.

On the other hand, the Autumn 2006 Eurobarometer survey showed that only 31 % of Italians thought that same-sex marriages should be allowed throughout Europe and 24 % were in favour of opening up adoption to same-sex couples.

An earlier survey gave the elevation as 3, 332 ft and since then it has been published as having an elevation of 3, 333 ft ( 1, 016 m ).

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

Dalhousie was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

Provided the sample size is adequate, the risks associated with random allocation ( such as failing to obtain a representative sample in a survey, or having a serious imbalance in a key characteristic between a treatment group and a control group ) are calculable and hence can be managed down to an acceptable level.

A total of 15 operating plants having nearly 15, 000 pumps were included in the survey.

The Guardian reported that " 36 % of the 308 UK senior managers and directors having responded to a survey accepted swearing as part of workplace culture ", but warned about specific inappropriate uses of swearing such as when it is discriminatory or part of bullying behaviour.

Waterhouse analyzed the influences of second-hand accounts of reincarnation, writing that most of the people in the survey had heard other people's accounts of past-lives from regression hypnosis and dreams and found these fascinating, feeling that there " must be something in it " if other people were having such experiences.

Project Argus was conceived as a continuation of the all-sky survey component of the late NASA SETI program ( the targeted search having been continued by the SETI Institute's Project Phoenix ).

Following a Summer 2011 height survey by The Munro Society, Beinn a ' Chlaidheimh was confirmed by the SMC in September 2012 as having been demoted from Munro to Corbett status.

However Borda persuaded the Assemblée Constituante that a survey having its ends at sea level and based on a meridian that spanned at least 10 % of the earth's quadrant would be more appropriate for such a basis.

According to a 1987 survey conducted by the American School Health Association, " 3 % of the boys reported having carried a handgun to school at least once during the school year ; 1 % reported carrying a handgun on a daily basis.

An archaeological survey of the castle in the late 1980s shows evidence of the site having been settled during the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, potentially making the Castle Rock the longest continually occupied site in Scotland.

In a 2004 survey designed by Noel Bruton ( author of " How to Manage the IT Helpdesk " and " Managing the IT Services Process "), organisations adopting ITIL were asked to relate their actual experiences in having implemented ITIL.

A survey in the 1850s found that over half of Indiana's population that made more than $ 100, 000 per year lived in Floyd County, establishing it as having the richest population in the state.

A survey of homeowners at this time showed that, having staved off the interstate threat, they were most concerned with keeping the neighborhood's rustic nature.

A survey made in 1686 states, " note this Land hath a House on it, built by Joseph Brown and Thomas Brown, either of them having an equal share of it " located at the present southwest corner of Tillou Road and Ridgewood Road.

It can be said that a very small error applied over a very large number of individuals ( that is, those who are * not affected * by the condition in the general population during their lifetime ; for example, over 95 %) produces a relevant, non-negligible number of subjects who are incorrectly classified as having the condition or any other condition which is the object of a survey study: these subjects are the so-called false positives ; such reasoning applies to the ' false positive ' but not the ' false negative ' problem where we have an error applied over a relatively very small number of individuals to begin with ( that is, those who are * affected * by the condition in the general population ; for example, less than 5 %).

Pursuant to the Culpeper land grant, the original 1669 surveyor was charged with estimating an area of 5, 000 acres ( 20 km² ) and then blazing a straight-line " back " boundary along a tree line between the winding courses of Dogue Run and Little Hunting Creek. Map of the estate, drawn by Washington More importantly, this surviving May 1741 property survey by Brooke reveals that the location of the present-day mansion house was then vacant, with the Washingtons depicted as having their Quarter alongside Little Hunting Creek ( as was shown on a similar, larger-scale Potomac River survey of 1738 ).

Western was ranked in spite of having opted out — along with several other universities in Canada — of participating in Maclean's graduate survey since 2006.

The brakes were problematic: a 1971 survey of passenger cars registered in Sweden during 1967 place the HB Viva at the top of a list of cars identified as having faulty brakes as part of an annual testing procedure.

A 2007 survey published by The Princeton Review rated Providence College as having the most homogeneous student population in the country, as well as ranking the college eighth nationally in the survey's " little race / class interaction " category.

In a 2009 survey by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven of 711 Flemish high school students aged 13 – 17, 12. 6 % of girls and 5. 9 % of boys reported having visited pro-ana websites at least once.

In another 2009 survey, by parental control software vendor CyberSentinel of 1500 female Internet users aged 6 – 15, one in three reported having searched online for dieting tips, while one in five reported having corresponded with others on social networking sites or in chat rooms for tips on dieting.

The simple geometric problem posed by these distances from known points was solved with no difficulty by the survey.

The discrepancies are due to the question of whether the " coast " is measured to the grounding line or to the edges of ice shelves, the difficulty of determining the location of the " solid " coastline, the movement of ice sheets and improvements in the accuracy of survey data over the years, as well as possible typographical errors.

" A survey showed that 96 % of primary care physicians habitually use a cuff size too small ," adding to the difficulty in making an informed diagnosis.

A 2003 household survey conducted by the National Statistical Survey found that the real unemployment rate is about 33 percent.

A survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in June 2010 found that 61 per cent of Britons and 70 per cent of Northern Irish agreed with Cameron ’ s apology for the Bloody Sunday events.

A validation survey is still conducted in a similar way to the post enumeration survey employed in a traditional census.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

A biological survey conducted in early 2005 indicated erosional effects of the tsunami wave on Diego Garcia and other islands of the Chagos Archipelago.

According to a survey conducted by The Scientist magazine, Dal was named the best non-commercial scientific institute in which to work in Canada.

A survey in conducted by the European Commission showed that within the European Union overall, the majority of EU citizens support their country's membership: over 50 % think their country's membership is " a good thing ", and only 15 % think it is " a bad thing ".

In 2011 Tagged conducted a summer-long survey based on " winks " by metro area, with the surprise leader being Pittsburgh.

Vancouver did eventually learn of the river before he finished his survey — from Robert Gray, captain of the American merchant ship that conducted the first Euroamerican sailing of the Columbia River on 11 May 1792, after first sighting it on an earlier voyage in 1788.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

In a privately funded study conducted under the auspices of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and based on an owner survey, Irish Wolfhounds in the United States from 1966 to 1986 lived to a mean age of 6. 47 and died most frequently of bone cancer.

The Canadian press reported that in interviews, first-year psychology students who took Rushton's classes said that he had conducted a survey of students ' sexual habits in 1988, asking " such questions as how large their penises are, how many sex partners they have had, and how far they can ejaculate.

Also in 1988, Rushton conducted a survey at the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto, where he paid 50 whites, 50 blacks, and 50 Asians to answer questions about their sexual habits.

According to the survey conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation, the number of active kendo practitioners in Japan is 477, 000 in which 290, 000 dan holders are included.

In a survey conducted by NetLibrary, 93 % of undergraduate students claimed that finding information online makes more sense to them than going to the library.

Since Kourouniotes ’ s excavation, anthropologists and scholars of Arcadian religion have studied the site in terms of its development as a sanctuary, but there was no further systematic or scientific investigation until 1996, when Dr. David Gilman Romano of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a topographical and architectural survey of the site.

In a survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

Another survey in 2007 conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center found that 73 % of labor economists surveyed in the United States believed a 150 % of the then-current minimum wage would result in employment losses and 68 % believed a mandated minimum wage would cause an increase in hiring of workers with greater skills.

In 2007, Klein and Dompe conducted a non-anonymous survey of supporters of the minimum wage who had signed the " Raise the Minimum Wage " statement published by the Economic Policy Institute.

In 2011, it was announced at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting that a US Navy hydrographic ship equipped with a multibeam echosounder conducted a survey which mapped the entire trench to 100 m resolution.

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Pakistan.

In a survey conducted in 2007 reported that 69 % of the population prefer the monarchy to continue, compared with 22 % opting for a Republic.