Sentences with phrase «demographic study by»

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According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

And according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, young people are flooding the web in numbers that far exceed other age demographics.

We can debate the merits of this study (done by a real estate association of course) all day long (demographic sampling, housing price changes, etc), but the point is, «above average» people generally all own homes and are wealthier, be it 2X wealthier or 40X wealthier than the average renter.

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 % of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

The trend Porter observes also coincides with a study by the Barna Group that shows that evangelical Christians are actually the least likely of other major demographics even to pay attention in the 2016 election.

Some demographic studies suggest that on current trends Britain could have a Muslim majority by the middle of this century.»

Alongside these statistics used by the activists, it is useful to read studies by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and studies by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and 40,000.

A study by the University of Chicago found that married Christians have the most fulfilling sex life out of all the demographic groups they studied.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

The demographic study, conducted by Western Suffolk BOCES, indicates that most of the district's 14 school buildings are underused and will continue to be underused through 2018.

In studies of health care utilization, the number of missing claims may vary in a nonrandom fashion between groups defined by demographics, disease, or locality.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The study, led by Dr Carri Westgarth from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health, examined the demographic and behavioural factors that contribute towards owners reporting having a strong sense of encouragement and motivation to walk provided by their dogs, which the team call «the Lassie effect».

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

Together with colleagues Maren Rebke from Avitec Research and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Peter H. Becker from the Institute of Avian Research «Vogelwarte Helgoland» in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, they have developed a statistical model to analyze the long - term study on common terns in Lake Bant in Wilhelmshaven led by Prof. Becker.

Despite the popular narrative that the web is to blame for rising political polarization, a study by a Brown University economist has found that recent growth in polarization is greatest for demographic groups in which individuals are least likely to use the internet and social media.

Even with a study of 3 million users, standard methods to improve precision by controlling for customer's past behavior and demographics were less effective than most expected.

In addition, we sought to identify modifiable predictors of CRC screening in non-African American and African American veterans by using a conceptual framework accounting for a wide range of clinical and demographic characteristics,» said study lead author Fola May, MD, MPhil, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.

The study looked to see if ethnic and racial disparities in breastfeeding could be explained by differences in the use of formula in hospitals, family history of breastfeeding, mother's belief that «breast is best»; and demographic measures including poverty, education and relationship status.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

Professor Christopher Murray, Director of IHME and a co-author of both studies, says «China has experienced a remarkable demographic and health transition in the last three decades, and this is reflected by the changing picture of the nation's health that we see during this period.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.

Gender, specific age, race and income did not influence the association; the study found that all demographic groups were equally affected by the link between social media and eating and body image concerns, indicating that preventative messages should target a broad population.

Thus, the study population included all out - of - hospital cardiac arrests from 11 counties in North Carolina (Camden, Catawba, Durham, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Transylvania, Wake, and Warren), covering a total population of approximately 2.7 million inhabitants (30 % of the state's total population), with demographics varying from urban to rural areas served by 11 EMS agencies.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Research by the Education Testing Service (ETS), and more recently by Miller & Stassun (2014)[9], demonstrate that GRE scores correlate with demographic characteristics unrelated to potential for graduate study, such as gender, race and socioeconomic status.

Distribution of demographic variables by CFS case - control status among persons from the combined Wichita and Georgia case - control population - based studies.

In the US, the multicultural demographic comprises over a third of the population, and their spending power is growing more quickly than the country's average, per a study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

The more a person (knows) what they are looking for in mate the easier it is for them to determine which site to join by studying the demographic of it's members gender ratio, education, income, race, religion and so on.

A recent PEW Internet Research Study showed that actually a demographic of 18 - 24 year olds, that went up by 400 % in the last two years.

The Local has taken a look at a study on French online dating habits, released in by Ined, an Institute for National Demographics Studies.

The study used data on student loan delinquencies by zip code, from the credit reporting agency Experian, and matched this to information on racial demographics by zip code from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

A 2010 study by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic grstudy by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic grStudy) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic groups.

And about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and math, according to a 2015 study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

No matter your class demographics or grade level, ELA and social studies teachers should integrate similar projects in their own classrooms, because every student will benefit from learning to craft a compelling visual story backed by persuasive facts and ideas.

View brief vignettes, or use the search engine at right to find more in - depth case studies, filtered by grade level, demographics, subject area, and more.

A new study commissioned by the Association for Equity in Funding (AEF) finds disparities in school funding among school districts with vastly different student demographics have negative effects on student outcome measures such as scores on school and district report cards.

«This research shows that positive gains by Renewal schools were not better than schools with similar demographics,» said Jonah Rockoff, an education researcher at Columbia University who has studied New York City schools in the past and reviewed Pallas's data.

This echoed findings from a previous study that analyzed information search patterns on the District's first public school information site and revealed that parents were most interested in demographic characteristics of the student population, followed by location, and, only then, academic performance (Schneider & Buckley, 2002).

Moderator analyses were performed using a random effects model that focused on the three main areas of scaffold characteristics (including the mechanism, functions, delivery forms, mode, and number of scaffolds; how to promote self - regulated learning by scaffolds); demographics of the selected studies (including sample groups, sample size, learning domain, research settings, and types of computer - based learning environments); and research methodological features (including research methods, types of research design, types of organization for treatment, and duration of treatment).

I fear this policy might very well be such a pitfall, and hope that it's not too late to study the demographic information before attempting to solve one problem by exacerbating a more serious one.

An updated Enrollment Projection and Demographic Analysis Study was recently reviewed and approved by the Dixie School Board.

The new online resource, Texas Smart Schools Initiative, has its roots in the former Financial Allocation Study for Texas, or FAST, that was run by her office, examining academic, financial and demographic data to identify districts and campuses that produce strong academic results while keeping costs low.

African American Homeschool Parents» Motivations for Homeschooling and Their Black Children's Academic Achievement, in the Journal of School Choice, by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. 2.04 Million Homeschool Students in the United States in 2010 FREE to print out Gen2 Survey: A Spiritual and Educational Survey on Christian Millennials FREE to print out Academic Achievement and Demographic Traits of Homeschool Students: A Nationwide Study, 2010 FREE to print out Bibliography of Research: Selected Key International References FREE to print out

The research by SOS, funded by The Daniel Tanner Foundation, has included demographic studies of charter school populations compared with the mainstream public school system.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his school.

Following - up on two prior posts about potential bias in teachers» observations (see prior posts here and here), another research study was recently released evidencing, again, that the evaluation ratings derived via observations of teachers in practice are indeed related to (and potentially biased by) teachers» demographic characteristics.

Even when controlling for certain key factors, like the demographic composition of students, the study found that teachers with a poor perception of the administration were more likely to leave the school by a significant margin.