Sentences with phrase «cent of children»

Of this number, 23 per cent of children in reception were considered overweight, with 10 per cent obese.

This effect became more pronounced over time, being seen in 17 per cent of all children aged 10.

More than 80 per cent of children who experience long - term poverty come from broken or unmarried families.

Forty six per cent of children said they could trust the clergy - that's slightly more than adults.

He said that while that may sound like a lot of hand waving, 25 per cent of children with autism have a seizure disorder.

She does not dismiss the 25 per cent of children from divorced families who have serious emotional or social problems (compared with 10 per cent from intact families).

The current cap stops new faith schools admitting more than 50 per cent of children on the basis of religion.

Yet, only 40 per cent of children under six months of age are fed only breastmilk.

43 per cent of children living in urban areas are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school.

Prior to starting formal schooling, more than 95 per cent of children attend daycare.

Forty six per cent of the children born to women who began their periods at age 10 were boys.

While the popularity of these options seem to be increasing, statistics indicate that 57 per cent of children do not eat the regular school lunches available.

You may have 40 or 50 per cent of children going to these kinds of schools.

On the other side of the scale, 48 per cent of children interviewed said they did not mind taking the tests, with 14 per cent claiming they enjoyed them.

However, the survey of 750 of 10 and 11 - year - olds also showed 90 per cent of children feel pressure to do well in tests.

Forty per cent of children experienced at least one move in the first five years of their lives and nine per cent moved twice or more.

The best available data from the ABS also showed that only around 70 per cent of children enrolled in dedicated preschool were attending for the full 15 hours a week.

Under the gifted and talented programme, the five per cent of children getting the best marks in national tests at 11 are included in a national talent register and given extra help.

At the other end of the spectrum, 35 per cent of children take these events in their stride.

Around 40 per cent of children developed eczema at some time in their life.

The number of children that are overweight has doubled in recent years, with approximately 25 per cent of children currently considered overweight or obese [1].

In total, 71 per cent of children showed improvements in behaviour.

The figures show only 54 per cent of children from disadvantaged families reach a good level of development, compared with 72 per cent of the age group overall.

A staggering eight per cent of children under the age of seven experience back pain.

Thirty per cent of children live in environments with serious housing problems including rising damp, cracks and lack of free space.

Just 10 per cent of children said they hated taking as nearly half of those polled said they did not mind taking tests and an extra 14 per cent said they enjoyed them.

Teachers also said more than one in three children dislike exercise by the time they leave primary school and believe 42 per cent of children don't enjoy PE lessons.

In the 1960s, fewer than 10 per cent of children were born outside marriage.

Nationally, 80 per cent of children achieved at least a level 4 in the tests, a small increase from last year's 79 per cent.

«The Commission's report was released one year ago, on June 2, yet despite the call for action we still have a situation where 60 per cent of children in care in B.C. are Aboriginal, and no plan from the Christy Clark government to stop taking these children from their families and their communities,» said New Democrat children and families spokesperson Doug Donaldson.

Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan has said in an interview for the Sunday Times: «I want every child — 100 per cent of children starting secondary school in September — to be entered for these core academic subjects which evidence shows sets every child up for life,»

Research conducted by Fit For Sport suggests that 67 per cent of children at primary school are not reaching basic levels of fitness for their age group.

In another marriage with a coefficient matching Charles Darwin's (between Josiah Wedgwood III and Caroline Darwin) the children's death rate was 25 per cent, and in a union with a coefficient twice that of Darwin's (between Henry and Jessie Wedgwood), 17 per cent of their children died.

Studies from many countries in all regions of the world suggest that up to 80 to 98 per cent of children suffer physical punishment in their homes, with a third or more experiencing severe physical punishment resulting from the use of implements.

Among children whose mother had a degree qualification, 42 per cent attended a non-government school, compared to 25 per cent of children whose mothers did not complete year 12.

When it comes to being read aloud to at home... [83 per cent of children across the age groups] say they love / d or like / d it a lot.»

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

The current picture Nearly ten per cent of children now enter primary school overweight and over double that number leave primary school either overweight or obese.

Using a list of items developed by WAACHS, the most frequently reported adverse behaviour in the current study was not wanting to attend school, with 36 per cent of children reported by their carer to have not wanted to go to school in the past six months.

By contrast, 1 per cent of children admitted to hospital with pandemic flu in Australia died.

Speaking during News Hour he said: «Last year we placed about 17 per cent of our children which were from different ethnic backgrounds.

In the UK, nearly 20 per cent of children grow up in workless households and nearly 30 per cent grow up in families in which nobody works full - time.

40 per cent of the children covered by the food diaries had eaten finger food by six months and 90 per cent by eight months.

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, 70 per cent of child car restraints are fitted incorrectly, putting a large number of young children at risk.

The Global Breastfeeding Scorecard, which evaluated 194 nations, found that only 40 per cent of children younger than six months are breastfed exclusively (given nothing but breast milk) and only 23 countries have exclusive breastfeeding rates above 60 per cent.

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

One of the most controversial aspects of the proposals is to incarcerate girls and boys together: only five per cent of children behind bars are girls.

The result of the study shows that 81 per cent of the children used TMC with friends more than three days a week in 2010; an increase by 11 percentage points compared to 2001.