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The children's inactivity problem is perhaps of little surprise when we also acknowledge the poor example being set by adults, with 29 per cent of adults in England failing to do at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a week.

Smoking is already down to 15.5 per cent of adults in England, but the government wants to go further, and is also targeting a teenage smoking rate of 3 per cent

But infection rates are still breathtakingly high in many parts of Africa, reaching over 15 per cent of adults in countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Nearly 30 per cent of adults in the UK say evolution can't explain the origin of humans.

A new survey has found that 51 per cent of adults in the UK say they pray, and a fifth of them are not... More

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The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

The CRTC found 29 per cent of English - speaking Canadian adults said they used Netflix for streaming in 2013, up from 21 per cent in 2012.

Fifty - nine per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese and, among children, obesity rates have almost tripled in the last 25 years.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

The poll by Angus Reid Institute, conducted this week among 2,125 Canadian adults, found that 55 per cent of respondents said they support the project, up from 49 per cent in February.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

Average weekly ordinary - time earnings of full - time adults (AWOTE) grew by 1.3 per cent in the March quarter, to be 4.6 per cent higher over the year.

Wage rates, as measured by average weekly ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE), increased by 1.3 per cent in the three months to February and by 4.6 per cent over the year (Graph 19).

Ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE) increased by 0.4 per cent in the three months to May, and by 4.1 per cent over the past year (Graph 31).

It might also be noted that both groups were more opposed to capital punishment than a representative sample of U.S. adults in 1980 (28 per cent opposed).

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

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

The study of 2,000 adults revealed one in 20 couldn't name Mary and Joseph as Jesus» parents while 16 per cent didn't know Jesus» occupation was a carpenter and thought he was jobless.

The decline in vocations, and the falling away from the practice of young adults in our schools, now ranging upwards to 90 per cent in many cases, is an aspect of one and the same phenomenon.

And a recent Gallup Poll reports that of a representative cross-section of adult Americans, 69 per cent felt that religion was increasing its influence on American life in 1957, but that only 14 per cent felt the same way in 1969.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

Medical statistics indicate that in the adult U.S. population approximately 12 per cent of males and 18 per cent of females have had a major depressive episode at some time.

Today, soft drinks contribute just 1.7 per cent of the daily intake of kilojoules for Australian adults, and when it comes to discretionary foods, they rank seventh in kilojoule contribution at 4 per cent.1

They found adults who lived on at least an 80 per cent organic diet for a week had significantly lower organophosphate pesticide residues in their urine than those who ate a diet of conventional foods.

The soft drink category contributes just 1.7 per cent of the daily intake of kilojoules for Australian adults.2 In addition, nearly one in two drinks consumed is a non-sugar variety (42 per cent volume share in 2011, compared to 30 per cent in 1997In addition, nearly one in two drinks consumed is a non-sugar variety (42 per cent volume share in 2011, compared to 30 per cent in 1997in two drinks consumed is a non-sugar variety (42 per cent volume share in 2011, compared to 30 per cent in 1997in 2011, compared to 30 per cent in 1997in 1997).

Their brain has grown a lot too: it's now reached 60 per cent of its adult size and has doubled in volume since birth.

The plan sets out national ambitions to: Reduce adult (aged 18 or over) smoking prevalence in England to 18.5 per cent or less by the end of 2015 (from 21.2 per cent), meaning around 210,000 fewer smokers a year.

More than half of adults in the Sheffield City Region (56 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders, while a quarter (24 per cent) disagree.

Aiming for an adult smoking rate of five per cent or less in roughly a generation is an ambitious but an achievable target.

Today's figures confirm a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO), which finds that in a sample of 115 young people and adults given Asbos, more than half (55 per cent) breached the conditions of their order.

The latest Home Office statistics reveal that between April 1999 and December 2005, 57 per cent of under - 18s and 41 per cent of adults breached their Asbos, compared to 47 per cent and 38 per cent respectively in the period to December 2003.

In a survey of more than 2,000 adults, 79 per cent of Labour supporters said they wanted the policy scrapped, while 65 per cent of voters planning to support the Liberal Democrats in 2015 wanted it to be droppeIn a survey of more than 2,000 adults, 79 per cent of Labour supporters said they wanted the policy scrapped, while 65 per cent of voters planning to support the Liberal Democrats in 2015 wanted it to be droppein 2015 wanted it to be dropped.

More than a third of adults (36 per cent) in Liverpool City Region think that health care provision should be the priority for local politicians.

The report says 93 per cent of adults have eaten unprocessed meat in the three months to August 2017.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

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.

Approximately half of US adults appear in a face database amassed by the FBI, with about 80 per cent of the photos from people who haven't been connected with a crime.

But now Didier Raoult at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France, and his team have found RNA from the pepper mild mottle virus in the faeces of 7 per cent of the 304 adults they tested.

Cholera vaccines have had limited success: in 2000, a promising vaccine made from live, weakened cholera bacteria protected 80 per cent of the North American or European adults who took it, but a much smaller proportion of Indonesians, with protection levels especially low in children.

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

Now a study of 10,892 adults over 10 years has found that, in the first six years after giving up, former smokers are 70 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop the disease.

«Even after adjusting for factors ranging from childhood maltreatment and parental unemployment to adult health behaviours including smoking and alcohol consumption, we found that parental addictions were associated with 69 per cent higher odds of depression in adulthood» explains Fuller - Thomson.

In support of this idea, older Mexican Americans who immigrated before age 16 had 62 per cent higher odds of functional limitations than those who came as adults.»

Overall middle - aged participants were more likely to say they were in a period of crisis (24 per cent) compared to younger adults (22 per cent) and older adults (14 per cent).

In a survey of 1,308 U.S. adult Facebook users, University of British Columbia researchers found that 24 per cent — or more than one in five — had snooped on the Facebook accounts of their friends, romantic partners or family members, using the victims» own computers or cellphoneIn a survey of 1,308 U.S. adult Facebook users, University of British Columbia researchers found that 24 per cent — or more than one in five — had snooped on the Facebook accounts of their friends, romantic partners or family members, using the victims» own computers or cellphonein five — had snooped on the Facebook accounts of their friends, romantic partners or family members, using the victims» own computers or cellphones.

A survey in Nicaragua last year concluded that 2 per cent of the country's adult population suffers pesticide poisoning annually.

• Stub it out: the proportion of smokers among adults in the UK fell from 20.1 per cent in 2010 to 15.5 per cent in 2016 (24 June, p 6).

Brain scans of 47 people of different ages found — after taking into account overall brain sizes — that adults had 12.6 per cent more solid brain matter in this area than children did (Science, doi.org/bwwg).