In its annual Economy and Finance survey, conducted April 4-14, Gallup found that 52 percent of Americans said they (personally or jointly with a spouse) owned stock outright or as part of a mutual fund or self-directed retirement account.
According to Gallup's 2013 Economy and Personal Finance survey, the average American retires at age 61.
According to Gallup's 2001-2015 Economy and Personal Finance survey, Americans' top financial concern is paying for their children's education.
Regarding the business & finance survey, the sample consisted of 333 economics students and staff (most of whom had work experience in business or finance).
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/15/47/prepub We thank Fabian Lienhard and Manuel Zehr for their support in executing and analyzing the business & finance survey.
As well as institutional benefits in the form of finance, survey data also revealed that United Kingdom award holders (55%, n = 5) and African award holders (57.1%, n = 8) considered sharing laboratory space and research equipment as a collaborative benefit.
The data in the report comes from three federally financed surveys of young people -- the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth -- and four smaller data sets.
Recently, the United States Agency for International Development began financing surveys that chose thousands of households at random in both urban and rural areas and sent in health care workers to take detailed medical and lifestyle histories and blood samples; though expensive, they produced results that are considered more accurate.
In Fenwick & West's 2011 Seed Financing Survey (the "Fenwick Survey"), the percentage of convertible note seed financings that utilized this approach was 17% in 2010 and 9% in 2011.
In Fenwick & West's 2011 Seed Financing Survey (the "Fenwick Survey"), the percentage of convertible note seed financings that granted a discount to investors was 67% in 2010 and 83% in 2011; and the median discount was 20% in both 2010 and 2011.
Keeping a patient with kidney failure alive on dialysis costs about $70,000 per year, according to a federally financed survey of dialysis clinics.
