But the results of that survey, reported in footnotes, actually disclose a much more complicated pattern.

A 1998 survey reported by Adherents.com found that 59% (over 700 million) of the population was non-religious.

The surveys reported in The Lancet were focused solely on recording deaths and count about two and a half times as many excess deaths from all causes over the same period.

A survey of US and Canadian newspaper executives - reported in Marketing Magazine - showed that more than half of them believe advertising revenues will be worse than expected this year.

Blackwell faced an uphill battle; according to a broad survey reported by The Plain Dealer on April 30, 2006, Ohio voters would "prefer to see a Democrat occupy the governor's mansion."

In a survey reported by the housing officers association last summer, about 57 percent of respondents were planning to either renovate or start anew on residential construction in the next five years.

In the survey, being reported today in The New England Journal of Medicine, almost none of the medical schools said they would allow private sponsors to quash publication of research findings.

The broad dimensions of the crisis were revealed in a survey of 239 teaching hospitals, reported in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

A recent survey of young hooligans, reported by the official Chinese press agency, found that most had been exposed to obscene works.