According to a September 2008 study by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, of the 504 member institutions surveyed, one-third said the credit crunch had hurt enrollment, and about a fifth of respondents said they had fewer returning students than expected.
DES is surveying one-eighth of the sky over the course of 525 nights in unprecedented detail, gathering data on 300 million galaxies and thousands of supernovae.
We chose to survey one-third, rather than the whole membership to reduce respondent burden and maximize the response rate.
According to our survey, one third of all workers surveyed claim that managing work-life has become more difficult over the last five years.
In our survey, one third of interviewed HIV specialists reported a poor knowledge of PrEP; also during the focus group, participants reported unsatisfactory knowledge of PrEP trial results.
In one survey, one-fourth of all employees said that they view their jobs as the number-one stressor in their lives.
According to one survey, one-third of all women in Rwanda report experiencing violence since the age of fifteen.
In one survey, one-fourth of companies said they were not inclined to hire older workers.
In a recent survey, one-third of Icelanders said they would consider emigrating.
In that survey, one-fifth of the individuals said they would pull their money out if they learned that their mutual fund was being investigated for improper trading.
In a 2008 survey, one-third of parents polled rated the quality of their children's homework assignments as fair or poor, and 4 in 10 said they believed that some or a great deal of homework was busywork.
