Sentences with phrase «cent of the population works»

Eastern Germany's Association of Independent Enterprises says there is a growing discrepancy between east and west: in the western states, 5 per cent of the population works on research commissioned by industry, while in the east, only a tenth of this number work in industrial research.

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WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community Pworking population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community PWorking Population Community Profile.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

About 68 per cent of the Canadian population aged 15 and over was working in the autumn of 2007, compared with about 66 per cent now, according to StatsCan.

«Millennials are the future of the workforce and will constitute over 50 per cent of the working population in the next few years,» added Zakai.

And it feared that even the new target announced last year, that by 2020 95 per cent of the working age population will be able to get by, will not have meant significant progress.

However, unemployment continues to rise and now stands at 1.61 million, or 5.3 per cent of the working population.

Bacon visited Tanzania on a Voluntary Service Overseas parliamentary placement to work with the Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF), a relatively new body designed to promote the interests of farmers, particularly smallholders, who make up 80 per cent of the population of Tanzania.

Osinbajo listed the ingenuity and resilience of the people, especially the 70 per cent youth population, leadership and good governance, allowing the private sector and markets to function, focusing on infrastructural development, and the incredible opportunities that abound as some of the factors that make Africa work.

As Chancellor Merkel has said — if Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

For one or two per cent of the population, the symptoms are extremely distressing and impact adversely on daily activities, work and sleep.

Here's a telling fact: that 2.5 per cent rise in unemployment is equal to about 1 million people in a working population of about 38 million.

For its system to work, DTM calculates that it needs to capture 2.5 per cent of the daily journeys by private car in a city the size of Melbourne, which has a population of around 3 million.

They found that with no migration, Europe's population is set to fall 17 per cent by 2050 — with a 30 per cent decrease in people of working age.

His earlier work suggests the DNA of the first population was just 60 per cent Indonesian — although he studied fewer living Malagasy and analysed shorter sections of DNA.

The 2017 survey showed principals and deputy or assistant principals experience a far higher prevalence of offensive behaviour at work than Australia's general population, with 44 per cent of respondents having received threats of violence, and one in three principals reporting actual violence.

In addition, 44 per cent of survey respondents had received a threat of violence at work in 2016, and 34 per cent had experienced actual physical violence, which is 8.6 times the prevalence within the general population.

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

The appalling dental work being inflicted on most of the British population is exposed today by an Observer investigation which has uncovered evidence that up to 90 per cent of work falls below international standards.

The Danish cycling culture is another example of a green and sustainable society and Copenhagen alone has around 400 km of cycle paths, and about 40 per cent of the capital's population commute to work by bicycle.

The participation rate, a little reported number that tracks Canadians with jobs and those looking for jobs as a percentage of the working - age population, dipped to 66.1 per cent in the latest employment data for April, down from 66.5 per cent from a year ago and from 67.8 in February 2008.

Part of the challenge for Hungary's employers is that the country's working age population is forecast to decline by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020.

Employment in Luxembourg continues to grow and this has resulted in a low unemployment rate of the working age population at 6 per cent.

A growing working age population — forecast to increase by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020 — coupled with rising labour force participation rates means employers will have a growing pool of labour to choose from.

«As a region, the UAE has always embraced skilled labour migration, with expats making up over 90 per cent of the working population.

Meanwhile, the percentage of the population in work is at an all - time high of 73.3 per cent.

At 30 June 2004, there were over 36,000 CDEP participants and 220 CDEP organisations.192 In 2002 the CDEP scheme accounted for over one - quarter of the total employment of Indigenous Australians, with 13 per cent of the working - age population being employed in the CDEP scheme.

Other typical traits of this primarily millennial population include working full - time (81 per cent), holding a post-secondary education (89 per cent) and married or in a common - law relationship (71 per cent).

The survey shows that the more tech and social media savvy Generation Y demographic — comprising one - third of Canada's population and the next wave of the country's active labour force — place a greater importance on being physically in the office, with 79 per cent defining collaboration as working together in the same space in person.

«Clinical psychologist Martha Stout estimates sociopaths constitute 4 per cent of the working population.