This statistic illustrates the share of opinions on divisions between people with different views compared to 20 years ago in 2019, by country. According to data from IPSOS, 57 percent of Swedish respondents said that society is more dangerous than it was 20 years ago due to the divisions between those with differing political views. This is compared to 57 percent of Americans and 53 percent of South Africans who said the same.

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In an opinion poll conducted between October and November 2024, over 24 percent of respondents in Japan stated that government policies reflect the opinion of the people at least to some extent. Around 21.5 percent thought that the ideas and views of the people are mostly not reflected by the government's policies.

This OIG website contains a list of recently issued advisory opinions and a link to archives of previously issued advisory opinions. In accordance with section 1128D (b) (5) (A) (v) of the Social Security Act and 42 CFR 1008.47 of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) regulations, advisory opinions issued by the OIG are made available to the general public through this OIG website. One purpose of the advisory opinion process is to provide meaningful advice on the application of the anti-kickback statute and other OIG sanction statutes in specific factual situations. Please note, however, that advisory opinions are binding and may legally be relied upon only by the requestor. Because each opinion will apply legal standards to a set of facts involving certain known persons who provide specific statements about key factual issues, no third parties are bound nor may they legally rely on these advisory opinions.

This statistic depicts the results of a survey asking individuals about their opinion on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter giving people a voice in debates in Japan in 2018. According to data provided by Ipsos, around 26 percent of respondents agreed that social media were giving a voice to people who normally would not participate in debates and social issues.

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The aerial dataset publication comprises a collection of frames captured from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during flights over the University of Cyprus campus and Civil Defense exercises. The dataset is primarily intended for people detection, with a focus on detecting small objects due to the top-view perspective of the images. The dataset includes annotations generated in popular formats such as YOLO, COCO, and VOC, making it highly versatile and accessible for a wide range of applications. Overall, this aerial dataset publication represents a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of computer vision and machine learning, particularly those focused on people detection and related applications.

It is advised to further enhance the dataset so that random augmentations are probabilistically applied to each image prior to adding it to the batch for training. Specifically, there are a number of possible transformations such as geometric (rotations, translations, horizontal axis mirroring, cropping, and zooming), as well as image manipulations (illumination changes, color shifting, blurring, sharpening, and shadowing).

The survey was conducted by Central Research Services on behalf of Japan's Prime Minister's office. A National sample of 16,739 adults were interviewed in January 1969. The survey was commissioned by the Prime Minister's office to seek opinions on living conditions and requests sent to the government.

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at https://doi.org/10.25940/ROPER-31071960. We highly recommend using the Roper Center version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.

Protecting one's private life online was considered as a serious issue by the majority of French people aged 11 to 20 in 2019, given that 94 percent of those young people said that protecting their privacy online was important to them, including 58 percent who considered it "very" important. Only one percent of the respondents stated that the private data protection was not important.

Scholars often assert that public support for judicial authority induces Congress to grant resources and discretion to the Supreme Court. However, the theory of competing public agency embraced by the Constitution suggests that public support for courts cannot, by itself, explain congressional support for judicial authority. Instead, the logic of the separation of powers system indicates that legislative support for the institutional capacity of courts will be a function of public confidence in the legislature as well as evaluations of the judiciary. We test this theory, finding that public confidence in both Congress and the Court significantly affect congressional support for the Supreme Court, controlling for the ideological distance between the Court and Congress as well as the Court's workload. The results offer a more refined and complex view of the role of public sentiment in balancing institutional power in American politics.

The presence of the VAE bot in hybrid teams increased the likelihood of polarization and the spread of forecasts post social interaction.

The depository includes: 1. pre-registration of the experiment on aspredicted.org 2. datafile (stata) 3. data do file (Stata) 4. Study Questionnaire

Existing literature on foreign aid and human rights often presupposes that constituents favor using foreign policy to promote human rights abroad and, in turn, lead elected policymakers to pursue such policies to retain electoral support. This assumption, although frequently asserted, has not been empirically evaluated. And there are reasons to be skeptical about how much public opinion supports human rights foreign policy in comparison to other policy objectives. This paper explores US public opinion about human rights, by asking two questions: does the public think human rights should be a factor in foreign aid decisions and does the context – for instance, the strategic or economic relationship between the donor country and potential recipient – affect this? This paper uses results from a nationwide experimental survey to parse out these questions: do respondents favor a punitive response to human rights abuses? Does it matter if U.S. economic or strategic interests are at stake? I find that the majority of respondents support cutting foreign aid to punish human rights violators and that this preference depends only minimally on the importance of the recipient. This paper contributes to existing scholarship by testing a key micro-foundation of the literature on human rights and foreign policy.

This Voice of the People poll seeks the opinions of Canadians, on predominantly economic, political, and social issues. The questions ask opinions of the state of the economy as compared to 10 years ago, predictions about the next generation, safety and security, public school trends, and public cl inics/hospitals. There are also questions on other topics of interest such as Canadian democracy, politics, and elections. The respondents were also asked questions so that they could be grouped according to geographic and social variables. Topics of interest include: economy; security; American foreign policy; politics; next generation; elections; public schools; public clinics/hospitals; and general happiness. Basic demographic variables are also included.

This annual survey, fielded August to October 1999, was conducted in over 50 countries to solicit public opinion on social and political issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinion on the environment. Questions included the overall state that the environment is in, if the government has done too much, too little, or just the right amount concerning the environment, and the biggest threat to the environment for future generations. They were also queried on whether they thought their countries elections were free and fair, and what words best describe their perception of the government. Questions concerning religion were also asked. These focused on whether there is only one true religion, many true religions, or no essential truth in any religion, how important God is in their life, and praying and meditation. Respondents were asked to give their opinion on women's rights. Questions included whether they thought women have equal rights in their country, whether they thought education is more important for boys or girls, whether women need to have children in order to feel fulfilled, and whether women in advanced countries must insist more for the rights of women in the developing world. They were also asked to give their opinion on the issue of crime. They were asked how concerned they were about the level of crime in their country, if crime had increased or decreased in the last five years, how well the government was handling crime, and if they were for or against the death penalty. They were also asked what they thought matters most in life, and what they thought about the United Nations. Questions pertaining to human rights were also asked, such as whether discrimination based on sex, color, language, religion, or political opinion was taking place in their country. They were also asked if they thought that the use of torture was being documented, how effective stricter international laws would be in reducing torture, how effective more prosecutions of those suspected of torture would be in eliminating it, how effective greater public awareness of the incidence of torture would be in helping eliminate it, and how effective a grassroots campaign to eliminate torture would be. Respondents were also queried on the year 2000 computer problem. Demographics include sex, age, education, occupation, marital status, children under 15 living in household, religious denomination, religiosity, and region.

This statistic depicts the results of a survey asking individuals about their opinion on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter giving people a voice in debates in Australia in 2018. According to data provided by Ipsos, around 62 percent of respondents agreed that social media were giving a voice to people who normally would not participate in debates and social issues.

Opinion polarization is increasingly becoming an issue in today’s society, producing both unrest at the societal level, and conflict within small scale communications between people of opposite opinion. Often, opinion polarization is conceptualized as the direct opposite of agreement and consequently operationalized as an index of dispersion. However, in doing so, researchers fail to account for the bimodality that is characteristic of a polarized opinion distribution. A valid measurement of opinion polarization would enable us to predict when, and on what issues conflict may arise. The current study is aimed at developing and validating a new index of opinion polarization. The weights of this index were derived from utilizing the knowledge of 58 international experts on polarization through an expert survey. The resulting Opinion Polarization Index predicted expert polarization scores in opinion distributions better than common measures of polarization, such as the standard deviation, Van der Eijk’s polarization measure and Esteban and Ray’s polarization index. We reflect on the use of expert ratings for the development of measurements in this case, and more in general.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) is an omnibus survey that collects data from respondents in Great Britain. Information is gathered on a range of subjects, commissioned both internally by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and by external clients (other government departments, charities, non-profit organisations and academia).One individual respondent, aged 16 or over, is selected from each sampled private household to answer questions. Data are gathered on the respondent, their family, address, household, income and education, plus responses and opinions on a variety of subjects within commissioned modules. Each regular OPN survey consists of two elements. Core questions, covering demographic information, are asked together with non-core questions that vary depending on the module(s) fielded.The OPN collects timely data for research and policy analysis evaluation on the social impacts of recent topics of national importance, such as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the cost of living. The OPN has expanded to include questions on other topics of national importance, such as health and the cost of living.For more information about the survey and its methodology, see the gov.uk OPN Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) webpage.Changes over timeUp to March 2018, the OPN was conducted as a face-to-face survey. From April 2018 to November 2019, the OPN changed to a mixed-mode design (online first with telephone interviewing where necessary). Mixed-mode collection allows respondents to complete the survey more flexibly and provides a more cost-effective service for module customers.In March 2020, the OPN was adapted to become a weekly survey used to collect data on the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of people of Great Britain. These data are held under Secure Access conditions in SN 8635, ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, Covid-19 Module, 2020-2022: Secure Access. (See below for information on other Secure Access OPN modules.)From August 2021, as coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions were lifted across Great Britain, the OPN moved to fortnightly data collection, sampling around 5,000 households in each survey wave to ensure the survey remained sustainable. Secure Access OPN modulesBesides SN 8635 (the COVID-19 Module), other Secure Access OPN data includes sensitive modules run at various points from 1997-2019, including Census religion (SN 8078), cervical cancer screening (SN 8080), contact after separation (SN 8089), contraception (SN 8095), disability (SNs 8680 and 8096), general lifestyle (SN 8092), illness and activity (SN 8094), and non-resident parental contact (SN 8093). See the individual studies for further details and information on how to apply to use them. Main Topics: The non-core questions for this month were: Tobacco consumption (Module 210): this module was asked on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs to help estimate the amount of tobacco consumed as cigarettes. Due to the potentially sensitive nature of the data within this module, cases for respondents aged under 18 have been removed. Working conditions (Module 346a): this module was asked on behalf of researchers at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and questions asked relate to assessing the way people work and their levels of job-related stress. Disability monitoring (Module 363): this module was asked on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which is interested in information on disability and includes two questions that ask about awareness of the Disability Discrimination Act. The module aims to identify the scale of problems those with long-term illnesses or disabilities have accessing goods, facilities and services. This version of the data does not contain variables M363_3M, M363_6AM, M363_6bM, M363_7M, M363_26, M363_27, M363_28, and M363_29. Train satisfaction (Module MAK): this module was asked on behalf of Department for Transport. The questions aim to gather information on how frequently people travel by train and their opinions on short distance and long distance train services. Legal services (Module MBT): this module was asked on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. It is designed to find out about people’s use of legal services for personal matters only. Later life (Module MCE): this module was asked on behalf of DWP on behalf of a number of other government departments who are interested in what people think of the support available to help older people to continue to live independently in later life. Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview

This statistic displays the public opinion of the French on the groups of the people whom professional training are aimed to according to a survey carried in 2019. A share of 90 percent of the respondent stated that professional training was targetting people into career change, whereas 71 percent thought it was primarily intended for students.

According to a survey conducted on environmental issues in Japan in October 2020, amounting to 588 answers, the majority of respondents stated that they thought that environmental issues were caused by activities of humans. Only a small amount of respondents mentioned that they did not think so.

Of 2,197 survey respondents in the U.S., around 50 percent said they had a positive opinion of people who choose to wear a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. This statistic shows the percentage of U.S. adults who had select opinions about people who choose to wear a face mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic, as of June 12, 2020.