A similar regional survey, published in June, had been more optimistic.

The survey, published in 'Which?', showed that the great majority of people still used estate agents although there was widespread dissatisfaction with the system.

His most recent piece was a survey of France, published in autumn 2012.

But change it must, according to a survey published in Link, the association's magazine.

Another national survey, published in 1994, found that 60 percent of doctors had at some time referred patients to practitioners of alternative medicine.

The survey, published in the association's monthly consumer magazine, Holiday Which?

The 1967 survey, published by The Smithsonian is used as the most authoritative baseline for more recent research.

A trendsetter was the Prussian new survey (1:25.000), published between 1877 and 1915.

According to a survey published by the agency, nearly 25 percent of schools had neither full-time nor part-time nurses.

A separate survey published on Friday found average base pay for senior City staff soared by 20pc over the last year.