Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.

Surveys among economists indicate a preference for a shift toward the latter.

Surveys indicate continued preference for bosses who are demanding but show concern for workers ' private lives over less-demanding bosses interested only in performance on the job.

A recent geophysical survey commissioned by English Heritage was carried out by TimeScape Surveys at the fort using magnetometry and resistivity techniques.

Technicians use these surveys to help determine whether a trend will continue or if a reversal could develop ; they are most likely to anticipate a change when the surveys report extreme investor sentiment Surveys that show overwhelming bullishness, for example, are evidence that an uptrend may reverse ; the premise being that if most investors are bullish they have already bought the market ( anticipating higher prices ).

Surveys repeatedly show that, in most industrialized countries, children now spend more time watching television than they do in school, or also on any other activity apart from sleeping Media Education has no fixed location, no clear ideology and no definitive recipients ; it is subject to whims of a financial market bigger than itself.

Surveys revealed that " new employment or seeking a new job ," " job transfer ," and " business " were major reasons given by new immigrants for coming to the capital.

Surveys in 1932 and 1947 revealed very few children had read or even heard of Alger.

Surveys revealed that El Paso was further south and further west than the map showed.

Surveys in Thailand, northern Myanmar and India's western Arunachal Pradesh revealed fewer numbers.

Surveys have shown that people with Jewish backgrounds are twice as likely to become Neopagans, in comparison to Gentiles ( non-Jews ).

Surveys that are not based on probability sampling have no way of measuring their bias or sampling error.

Surveys based on non-probability samples are not externally valid.

Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Centre and the Pew Organisation conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being " very happy " than the least religiously committed people.

* Labour Force Sample Surveys are the most preferred method of unemployment rate calculation since they give the most comprehensive results and enables calculation of unemployment by different group categories such as race and gender.

Surveys showed that 54 % of lakes in Asia are eutrophic ; in Europe, 53 %; in North America, 48 %; in South America, 41 %; and in Africa, 28 %.

In the United States, cadastral surveys are typically conducted by the federal government, specifically through the Cadastral Surveys branch of the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ), formerly the General Land Office ( GLO ).

Surveys show that Haaretz readership has a higher-than-average education, income, and wealth ; most are Ashkenazim.

Surveys and excavations are still continuing at nearby Mit Rahina, and will likely add to the knowledge of the planning of the ancient religious city.

These standards are used for example in the European Community Innovation Surveys.

According to the United States Department of the interior-Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H. Richards, Director and Chief, Branch of Surveys, in his letter to Karl Starkweather dated April 29, 1954, he states that upon inspection of the tract books held by the Bureau: " Of interest to you personally are the notations of the CASH entries Nos.

The World Values Surveys were designed to test the hypothesis that economic and technological changes are transforming the basic values and motivations of the publics of industrialized societies.

Surveys and discussion boards, where members are able to post their feedback, is an essential part in developing an online community due to the fact that community needs, as well as individual needs, are always changing.

# Mission and Vision Statements and Customer ( Client ) Surveys are the most used ( by 77 % of organizations of 20 improvement tools, followed by SWOT analysis ( 72 %), and Informal Benchmarking ( 68 %).

Surveys are typically masked to protect confidential data by neutral associations and consultants.

Surveys show that an increasing number of companies are using job rotation to train employees.

Surveys in Sumatra and in the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area in northern Laos indicated that they are more common than sympatric small cats, suggesting that they are more numerous than previously believed.

Surveys are a common example of how statistics and quantitative research are utilized to gather data.

Surveys used in social science research frequently include questions about housing tenure, because it is a useful proxy for income or wealth, and people are less reluctant to give information about it.

Surveys and specimens of brown rat populations throughout the world have shown this species is often associated with outbreaks of trichinosis, but the extent to which the brown rat is responsible in transmitting Trichinella larvae to humans and other synanthropic animals is at least somewhat debatable.

Surveys that seek to document discrimination on the basis of perceived sexual orientation and / or gender identity are often conducted with a pool of self identified LGBT people, making it difficult to ascertain the impact of this type of discrimination on non-LGBT individuals.

Surveys are often restricted to one band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to instrumental limitations, although multiwavelength surveys can be made by using multiple detectors, each sensitive to a different bandwidth.

Surveys carried out for their own sake are often meaningless, but when they are undertaken to collect data they can be extremely productive.

Detailed military surveys in Britain ( beginning in the late eighteenth century ) were called Ordnance Surveys, and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps.

In the United States, according to the 2002 National Surveys of Family Growth, sexually active adolescent women wishing to avoid pregnancy were less likely than those of other ages to use contraceptives ( 18 % of 15-to 19-year-olds used no contraceptives, versus 10. 7 % average for women ages 15 to 44 ).

Surveys were done using the metes and bounds method used in Virginia, rather than the Public Land Survey System established by the Land Ordinance of 1785 which was more used for the most of the Northwest Territory.

The Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys was used to photograph the crater in visual and ultraviolet light.

The Indices by the departments of Statistical Bureau or Economic Surveys may be used for the revaluation of assets.

This instrument was used in the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ( POSS, 1958 ), the POSS-II survey, the Palomar-Leiden ( asteroid ) Surveys, and other projects.

( 2006 ) used data collected from the Demographic and Health Surveys and found that HIV prevalence was " considerably higher in urban areas and for women, especially at younger ages.

( 2006 ) also used data from Demographic and Health Surveys in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, and Malawi and from AIDS Indicator Surveys in Tanzania and Uganda to conduct his study.

The spelling Yalgu was used because of spelling rules for Aboriginal names adopted by the Lands & Surveys Department ( the letter u best representing the " oo " sound ).

Within a month the Lands & Surveys had decided reluctantly to use the original Yalgoo spelling, and this spelling has been used ever since.

The Social Weather Surveys are used for public opinion polls.

Surveys are used to determine the disparity, if any, between federal and non-federal pay in a given locality pay area.