Posts Tagged ‘Survey’

Gallup Potential Net Migration Index – Singapore – New Zealand – Saudi Arabia – Canada – Switzerland – Australia – Kuwait atop

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

A study recently released by Gallup, on the topic of the Potential Net Migration Index shows that nations such as Singapore, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Switzerland and Australia are atop the list of countries that could see the highest net adult population growth from international migration. In the scenario in which all the borders are opened and population can move freely from one country to another, following their wishes as expressed in the survey, some of these countries could double their population according with the study.

Source: Adapted from Gallup, 2010

At the other end of the table, the countries that potentially could lose the biggest population number, in some countries the values going as high as half of the current population size are: Sierra Leone, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ethiopia or El Salvador.

Source: Adapted from Gallup, 2010

Definition of the index

# Potential Net Migration Index (PMMI): “Measures the estimated number of adults who express their wishes to move permanently out of a country if the opportunity arose subtracted from the estimated number who would like to move into it and calculated as a proportion from the total adult population currently residing in the country.”

Calculation formula

[(A-B)/C]*100, where

  • A = # Estimated adults who express their wishes to move into it
  • B = # Estimated adults who express their wishes to move out from a country
  • C = # Adult population currently residing in the country

Methodology

The study is survey based and uses for the calculation Gallup’s Potential Net Migration Index. The methods used for the survey data collection are telephone interviews and face to face interviews.

Data collection

The survey takes in consideration 148 countries, which represent almost 95% of the global population and was conducted between 2007 and 2010 on more than 350,000 adults.

Survey questions

The survey data is subtracted from two questions:

• “Ideally if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country? If Yes

• To which country would you like to move?

Study limitations

• The Gallup’s findings reflect people wishes rather than their intentions.

• Index scores are not reported for countries were the sample was smaller than 500, such as Belize, Cyprus or Iceland, due to the index volatility

• In Gulf Cooperation Council countries only Arab nationals and Arab expatriates were surveyed

• Index scores are not reported for countries such as Qatar or United Arab Emirates where the expat population make up more than 50% of the adult population.

• Most importantly, the rankings are powerfully influenced by the size of the current population. Countries such as USA, which is the most preferred country for immigration doesn’t show up in the top ranking spots due to its high population size.

Conclusion

Though is based mostly on the interviewed people’s wishes and on an ideal situation or hypothesis in which the population is free to move from one country to another without any restriction, the study raise important questions for the world countries leaders. A couple of them could be:

  • What would be the real implications if these desires become reality?
  • What future actions need to be pursued to keep a state of equilibrium in the world?

References

Gallup (2010),  Migration Could Triple Populations in Some Wealthy Nations, article by Neli Esipova and Julie Ray, released on 20 August 2010, available at http://www.gallup.com/poll/142364/Migration-Triple-Populations-Wealthy-Nations.aspx#1, (accessed 25 August 2010)

* data based on www.wikipedia.com, Country Reports

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“The truth about Performance Management” … as revealed by a SAS survey report

Friday, June 11th, 2010

According with a 2007 SAS report on performance management issues, alignment is the most important benefit of performance management efforts. The report was based on survey data gathered online from 1143 respondents from cross-industry organizations across the globe (SAS, 2007). The report presents a detailed picture over the use of performance management tools, frameworks, systems and practices in the worldwide organizations.

Among the most important findings that were outlined from the survey (SAS, 2007) are:

• Performance Management practices have spread over most of the organizational functional areas. According the SAS survey findings, the operations function is most likely to drive the effort followed closely by the finance and human resources departments.

• Even though most of the performance management practices are multi-departmental, only a third of them are aligned across all departments.

• Most companies are looking for performance management initiatives that could boost their competitiveness.

• Cultural resistance, the human factor, is the primary factor to achieving performance management success.

• Organizations have problems in integrating multiple systems employed to solve problems across their structure.

• Companies who are following a sequential approach to integrating performance management practices across all organizational levels are the most likely to succeed.

• Technology plays an important role in the performance management success.

• The more a company is mature in the use of information, the more successful will be in nurturing successful performance management practices.

Additionally, a table with the most significant performance management findings from the survey can be visualized below:

Source: The truth about Performance Management, A report of survey findings, SAS 2007

Although the SAS report presents a comprehensive picture of the use of performance management practices across organizations, other surveys available for the larger public might present different results. Each study uses different research tools and attributes different rigor in data collection and interpretation. A compendium of such statistics on performance management practices can be found in the smartKPIs.com Performance Architect update 20/2020.

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The Top Ten Undergraduate Business Programs in the U.S.A. – A Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking Survey

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

In 2005 Bloomberg BusinessWeek launched a ranking survey for the best Business Undergraduate Schools in the United States. For this purpose  an academic quality ranking was build based on nine measures:

• $ Median starting salaries for graduates

• # Alumni each program sends to MBA programs

• # Average SAT scores

• # Student faculty ratio

• # Class size

• % Students with internships

• # Hours students devote to classwork

• # Senior business majors

• # Corporate recruiters

The results of the 2010 survey were made public at the beginning of March  and present a complete changed ranking classification for the “Top Ten Undergraduate Business Programs in the United States” compared with the results from 2009.

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010

As presented in the report, one of the major challenges for the Business Schools across United States in 2010, was how to find the best methods to fight recession in order to support and secure a high employment rate for their seniors majoring in business.

This issue comes in the context in which only 38% of the students majoring in business, who responded in the 2010 survey, admitted that they received a job offer, compared to 46% in 2009 and  56% in 2008.

Schools which got involved the most in supporting their graduating students and came with the most consistent and innovative programs and methods were the winners in 2010, being positioned high in the survey rankings.

A detailed analysis of this subject was conducted in the article “The best B-Schools vs. the Recession” available online at businessweek.com.

Additionally, smartkpis.com provides its users with a comprehensive library of Academic Education KPIs in practice, which show  how universities from around the world monitor their performance.

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