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1 A survey of married owner-occupier couples in 1971 found that 42 per cent had the home in the husband 's name , and only 5 per cent in the wife 's name , the remainder being joint mortgages ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ) .
2 In particular , the New York Times/CBS poll of Oct. 22 found that 79 per cent believed foreign policy less important than home issues , that only 37 per cent approved Bush 's handling of the economy , and that 56 per cent believed that the recession was getting worse .
3 A Women 's Industrial Council investigation of 10,000 girls during the 1890s found that 5 per cent spent an hour at midday and between two and four hours after school , as well as Saturdays , thus employed .
4 A Metropolitan Police study conducted during a three-month period in 1979 found that 0.4 per cent of detainees were held for seventy-two hours or more .
5 Single parents off the dole queue have the same thwarted desire for waged work as their married sisters — a Woman 's Realm survey in the seventies found that 70 per cent of mothers full time at home would like a job , but had none because of the lack of childcare facilities .
6 That 's typical — a survey by the Child Poverty Action Group and the Family Service Unit in 1981 found that 80 per cent of people on state benefits borrow money to pay their housing or fuel bills .
7 For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families .
8 A survey in 1987 found that 52 per cent of the workforce in Britain did not undertake training .
9 A national survey of lone parents carried out in 1989 found that 65 per cent of lone mothers working twenty-four or more hours per week were low paid , defined as earning less than two-thirds of median male hourly earnings ( Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) .
10 A Home Office study in 1990 found that 20 per cent of sentenced prisoners have serious mental disorders and that among women the figure rose to 35 per cent .
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