Sentences with phrase «as socioeconomic characteristics»

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Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

The researchers estimated the link between road traffic noise on these deaths and admissions, taking into account other factors such as individuals» age and sex, as well as neighbourhood characteristics like ethnicity, smoking rate, air pollution, and socioeconomic deprivation.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

Once the regional hotspot locations are on the electronic map, other information such as elevation, socioeconomic characteristics and slope becomes available.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Research by the Education Testing Service (ETS), and more recently by Miller & Stassun (2014)[9], demonstrate that GRE scores correlate with demographic characteristics unrelated to potential for graduate study, such as gender, race and socioeconomic status.

And in fact, research suggests that there are no significant personality differences between online and offline daters.5 There is some evidence that online daters are more sensitive to interpersonal rejection, but even these findings have been mixed.6, 7 As far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losersAs far as the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losersas the demographic characteristics of online daters, a large survey using a nationally representative sample of recently married adults found that compared to those who met their spouses offline, those who met online were more likely to be working, Hispanic, or of a higher socioeconomic status — not exactly a demographic portrait of desperate losers.8

NELS also solicited information about each student's gender as well as a variety of other demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

As educators, we have a responsibility to work toward a society in which age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any of the other characteristics that make up our identity, cease to be seen as problems to be overcome and instead are recognized as sources of strengtAs educators, we have a responsibility to work toward a society in which age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any of the other characteristics that make up our identity, cease to be seen as problems to be overcome and instead are recognized as sources of strengtas problems to be overcome and instead are recognized as sources of strengtas sources of strength.

Although little research exists regarding the relationship between characteristics such as education specialty and NETS - T awareness level, current studies tend to focus on the impact of multiple intelligences or socioeconomic status on digital literacy, including NETS usage (Hargittai, 2010; Sherman, 2014).

Our approval and vetting process is designed to find member schools and networks that are committed to recruiting, enrolling, and serving a diverse and integrated student body reflective of their broader community with respect to characteristics such as race / ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English language learner status, and disability.

Freshman year course performance — more than background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, or prior achievement — predict which students with disabilities are most at risk for dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National High School Center at AIR and the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.

We will then proceed to describe the underlying socioeconomic assumptions that shape RCP4.5 and its associated reference scenario and discuss the characteristics of RCP4.5, highlighting the global energy, economic, land use, and land cover systems, as well as the mechanisms employed to limit radiative forcing to 4.5 W m − 2 and contrast RCP4.5 to its reference scenario.

Representative Concentration Pathways, are referred to as pathways in order to emphasize that they are not definitive scenarios, but rather internally consistent sets of time - dependent forcing projections that could potentially be realized with more than one underlying socioeconomic scenario... They are representative in that they are one of several different scenarios, sampling the full range of published scenarios (including mitigation scenarios) at the time they were defined, that have similar RF and emissions characteristics.

This then established the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and a number of children's health and developmental outcomes.9 Longitudinal research suggested structural characteristics such as poverty and demography were mediated through community - level social processes that influenced the functioning of families and children.10, 11 Today, however, there is still limited understanding of the modifiable community - level factors likely to benefit outcomes for young children despite socioecological frameworks suggesting there are multiple levels of influence (individual, family, community) on early child development (ECD).12, 13 Investigating these influences is thought best undertaken through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods that can test these multiple influences on ECD.14, 15

Because media use practices and motivations vary among families from different backgrounds, 21 we also aimed to study whether these associations vary by family characteristics, such as socioeconomic status (SES), primary language, and race / ethnicity.

Controlling for socioeconomic and relationship characteristics, we find that a fathers» absence from the 20 - week ultrasound emerges as the strongest predictor of his absence from the birth.

Eighty - five percent of the final sample had at least 1 of the 3 risk characteristics used for recruitment: 47 % were younger than age 19 years, 62 % were unmarried, and 61 % came from households classified as of low socioeconomic status.

Given that CfC and comparison sites are matched on the socioeconomic index for areas, which comprises over 30 area - level variables, it was not necessary to include area characteristics as control variables.

Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and maternal factors at birth as moderators of the association between birth characteristics and school attainment: a population study of children attending government schools in Western Australia

The most apparent is that single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.

To their credit, Tschann and colleagues controlled for some important factors related to socioeconomic status (SES) and child characteristics (child's gender, hours worked weekly by mother, and two vs. single - parent households) but did not include other important indicators of SES such as parental age or education.

We conducted multiple linear regression analyses using externalizing symptoms as reported by children through the Dominic questionnaire and multiple child, family and socioeconomic characteristics.