The poll was carried out as part of nfpSynergy's Charity Awareness Monitor, which surveys a representative sample of adults in Britain.
The study, by NatCen Social Research, which surveys a representative sample of more than 3,000 people annually, found that the nation has changed beyond recognition in the three decades since it first began examining society, with people now much less bound by class, gender and sexuality.
Ten per cent did not answer or had no opinion in the poll, which surveyed a representative sample of the Israeli population, including Arabs.
Even the largest national study of sexual attitudes in the United States, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of close to six thousand men and women between the ages of fourteen and ninety-four, neglected to ask respondents how many of the encounters they engaged in could be deemed "casual".
Secondary data analyses used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of Canadian children (n = 13,790).
The IPS is conducted by the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS), which randomly surveys a representative sample of passengers entering and exiting the UK.
The CQi employs a stratified sampling method, through which an independent agency surveys a representative client sample for each organization.
This is a transversal study based on the pilot of the ELES survey, which is a representative survey of non-institutionalised Spaniards aged 50 and over.
The selection of websites for evaluation was based entirely on the reports from 368 GPs who took part in a previous study [ 7] in which we surveyed a random and highly representative sample of GPs from across England.
The Girls' Attitudes survey, which asked a representative sample of over 1,500 girls and young women between 7 and 21 about their experiences, also revealed that, in a single week, three in five girls said they heard jokes or remarks that belittled or degraded women, and 39 per cent had demeaning comments made to them about the way they look.
34 Briefly, between June and October 2003, 6522 US adolescents aged 10 14 years were recruited through a random digit-dial telephone survey, which captured a representative sample of US adolescents.
