Sentences with phrase «cent of adults believing»

Co-op Funeralcare said there is a growing trend towards celebration with 66 per cent of adults believing funerals are more about celebrating life.

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Bizarrely enough (and perhaps encouragingly), some 43 per cent of English adults also believe in the resurrection, the survey found.

Out of ten key types of historic buildings, 34 per cent of adults said castles should be protected for future generations, while 24 per cent believed the same should be said regarding cathedrals and churches.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

72 per cent of British adults believe Ed Miliband should spend more time outlining what Labour would do in government if they won the next General Election, according to an ITV News Index poll.

Shamos believes that the modest objective of increasing scientific literacy from the current level of 5 per cent to 20 per cent — the percentage of the American adult population who are college graduates — will prove all but impossible.

Forty - five per cent of adults between the ages of 20 and 35 working in STEM related roles believe that subjects they studied in school are useless when it comes to working, a new report shows.

The report adds that although 96 per cent of parents are confident their child can ask an adult for help, almost one fifth don't believe they have friends they can call on.

It also revealed that 49 per cent of UK adults believe that all kids should be taught at least some mandatory basic coding before they leave school.

Over two thirds (64 per cent) of adults working the education industry believe that not enough is being done to support the physical and mental wellbeing of employees.