Sentences with phrase «cent of boys»

The majority of girls said they «made love for love» the first time while only 38 per cent of boys said love was the main attraction.

It found that boys lag behind girls, with 62 per cent of boys achieving good levels compared with 77 per cent of girls.

This is revealed by the fact that 19 per cent of boys regularly staying out late have behaviour problems and 26 per cent of girls in this group score highly for hyperactivity.

34 per cent of boys reported dieting in an effort to change their body shape, and research shows that those struggling with body image can lead pupils to engage less in school.

Additionally, 15 per cent of boys thought university was of little important, compared to 10 per cent of girls.

For example, 26 per cent of girls (39 million) and 17 per cent of boys of secondary school age (11 - 15) were not enrolled in school in 2008.

About 40 per cent of all boys and 27 per cent of all girls had had sex with more than one partner during the 12 months preceding the survey.

As reported by Tes, 49 per cent of boys aged between seven and 15 noted IT or computing as a favourite school subject, compared with 26 per cent of girls.

For him, painkillers therefore offer the best explanation for an increase in cryptorchidism from 1.8 per cent of all boys in 1961 to 8.5 per cent in 2001.

Nineteen per cent of boys said that art was a favourite subject, followed by English with 16 per cent and music (12 per cent).

Last year, nearly 46 per cent of girls gained five or more passes at the top grades (A to C) in the GCSE examinations taken at 16, while fewer than 37 per cent of boys reached the same standard.

Around 30 per cent of the girls and 45 per cent of the boys admitted that they had sexually harassed someone one or more times.

Walding gave one example where more than 55 per cent of boys solved a problem that only 30 per cent of girls completed successfully.

In 2001, 8.5 per cent of all boys born in Denmark had cryptorchidism.

The gap has decreased from 16.3 percentage points to 15.6 percentage points, but only 58.6 per cent of boys start school with the expected level of development, compared to 74.3 per cent of girls.

A recent study from Youth Sport Trust and Women in Sport revealed that secondary school aged boys (age 11 - 16) are happier with the amount of physical activity they take part in and enjoy it more than girls (71 per cent of boys vs. 56 per cent of girls).

In addition, 51 per cent said they have felt so anxious before an exam that they thought they could not do it: 39 per cent of boys agreed with this, compared with 63 per cent of girls.

Twenty - seven per cent of girls, among pupil participants, state that STEM careers are not the right choice for them, in comparison to 14 per cent of boys which said the same.

The analysis conducted by Mintel also shows that 47 per cent of boys liked PE and 41 per cent liked maths, compared with 43 per cent of girls that said art was one of their favourite subjects, followed by English (32 per cent) and music (23 per cent).

It also noted that secondary school - aged boys (11 - 16) are happier with the amount of physical activity they take part in and enjoy it more than girls (71 per cent of boys compared to 56 per cent of girls).

A greater proportion of girls met the phonics standard: 85 per cent of girls and 78 per cent of boys met the standard this year.

Last year just 51 per cent of boys achieved five good GCSEs, compared to 61 per cent of girls.

In 2004 five per cent of boys and seven per cent of girls were regular smokers at the age of 13 and by the time they reach 15 that rises to 14 and 24 per cent, the report says.

Official figures suggest 22 per cent of young girls and 19 per cent of boys will be official obese by 2010.

Staying out late in adolescence is an accepted sign of growing independence, but this study finds that there is a small minority of 15 year olds — seven per cent of boys and five per cent of girls - who regularly stay out late without their parents knowing where they are.

Just over 12 per cent of boys and 5 per cent of girls had had five partners or more.

Forty - seven per cent of boys and 41 per cent of girls had had intercourse.

The survey of 1,559 UK teens found that in the last year almost a third of girls aged 13 - 17 years (31 per cent) have received unwanted sexual messages online from their peers (compared to 11 per cent of boys), while 1 in 10 have been targeted online by their peers with sexual threats such as rape threats.

Overall, 24.3 per cent of pupils achieved the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc), which requires GCSEs in two sciences, a language, history or geography, as well as English and maths, with 29.3 per cent of girls achieving the Ebacc compared to 19.5 per cent of boys.

The results highlight that the gender gap is still an issue, with 61.8 per cent of girls achieving five good GCSEs compared to 52.5 per cent of boys.

These figures compare with 16 per cent of boys and 9 per cent of girls from better off homes who similarly fall behind by age 16.

Just 40.4 per cent of boys enjoy writing, compared to 57.4 per cent of girls, and only 21.9 per cent of boys write daily outside class, compared to 32.3 per cent of girls.

The report drew on data from more than 3,000 young people that have been tracked through school from the age of three and found that in Year 9 (age 13/14) 65 per cent of girls thought it was important to go to university, compared to 55 per cent of boys.

The National Literacy Trust also found a significant gender gap, with 51.9 per cent of girls enjoying writing, compared to 36.8 per cent of boys.

Official guidelines recommend that children spend an hour a day being physically active — yet only 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls achieve this.The assessments contained basic fitness tests in stamina, agility, coordination and cardiovascular endurance, which provide a good indication of physical literacy.

It cites figures showing just 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls met recommended guidelines for moderate exercise per day and that British children born today were on course to be 35 per cent less active by 2035.

In Denmark, 20 per cent of boys and 10 per cent of girls have a delayed school start.

The gender gap also narrowed slightly with 73.1 per cent of girls achieving at least a C grade, compared to 64.7 per cent of boys.

Recent statistics show that in the UK, 25 per cent of boys and 33 per cent of girls between two and 19 years of age are overweight or obese.

In addition, it noted that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives, compared to 60 per cent of boys.

Pressure of school work and low confidence were found to be much bigger barriers to taking part in physical activity for girls than boys (24 per cent of girls compared to 13 per cent of boys).

Writing is the subject with the largest difference in attainment — 75 per cent of girls reached the expected standard in 2017 compared to 62 per cent of boys.

Breaking down the results by gender, 28.5 per cent of boys were considered developmentally vulnerable in one or more domains, compared to 15.5 per cent of girls.

Yet in 2012 only 51 per cent of boys aged four to ten met these recommendations and staggeringly just seven per cent of boys aged 11 to 15.

Girls outperformed boy in all subjects with the biggest gap — 14 percentage points — in writing, where three quarter of girls reached the expected standard compared to 62 per cent of boys.

For reading, writing and maths, girls achieved 57 per cent compared to 50 per cent of boys.

Forty per cent of boys and young men and 25 per cent of girls and young women in custody have experienced violence at home.