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Wary But Hopeful
01/01/2004
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Sixty-three percent of the respondents in the 2002 survey worried about threats to their personal security and to that of their families and friends in the aftermath of 9/11. Those concerns dogged 77 percent of the respondents in the more recent survey.
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More than 70 percent of the respondents thought the healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries and the defense and aerospace industries would be the most attractive sectors in the economy in the coming year. More than half expect real estate valuations to stay strong, but that is a decline from two-thirds in the year-earlier survey.
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The respondents saved, on average, 22 percent of their after-tax income in 2002.
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The respondents gave, on average, 8 percent of their after-tax income to charity in 2002, a figure they anticipate will remain the same in 2003.Photograph by Jan Tove Johansson/Taxi
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