Sentences with phrase «for percentage of the population»

The distinction between persons of a homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they did not choose.

The U.S. in 1992 ranked highest in the world for the percentage of its population with a college degree, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international data - tracking partnership among more than 35 countries.

But for a percentage of the population, life minus sex is a very real thing.

I am trying to get a feel for the percentage of the population of self - published authors who had problems or snags.

Ontario's capital also ranks second overall for percentage of the population that takes public transit to work at 34 %, behind only Montreal.

For this metric, we sorted cities according to U.S. Census numbers for the percentage of the population between ages 20 and 34.

Not exact matches

According to 34 - nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada would place fifth during the recovery period according to the percentage of the working age population that held a job at the end of 2013, compared to the situation prior to the 2008 - 09 recession.

Because the margin of error is 3 points, the pollsters are confident that support for Trump in the total population is between 40 % and 46 % — or 43 % plus or minus 3 percentage points.

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

Participation rates (the percentage of the population either working or looking for work) have dwindled amongst teenagers.

«Conversely, if the population is becoming younger, a greater percentage of the population may enroll in high school or college; yet this tells us nothing about employment opportunities for those who want to work.»

The decline raises deeper questions alongside surveys showing large percentages of our population lack a sense of hope for the future.

Yet the total rate of small business ownership, defined as the percentage of the population owning a business in a given month, has been dropping for decades, according to the report.

The time - honored formula for getting rich through marketing was once stated as «Find a need and fill it,» but that required a bit of updating, as greater percentages of our population had their basic needs met.

Only about half of small business owners say they have ever borrowed money for their business, including the general population of small business owners (50 %), Asian (53 %) and Hispanic (51 %) segments, while the percentage of African American business owners who have used credit (42 %) is somewhat lower.

For this reason, economists prefer to rely on the participation rate of the labor force, measuring the percentage of the population that's either working or actively looking for a jFor this reason, economists prefer to rely on the participation rate of the labor force, measuring the percentage of the population that's either working or actively looking for a jfor a job.

Newly released city data shows over the past two decades African - Americans have been arrested for pot at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents, even though the two groups make up a similar percentage of the population.

«We see Southeast Asia as a region with huge growth potential for WeLab due to its high percentage of unbanked population (73 % out of 600 million) which makes it impossible to borrow and its high mobile penetration rate (133 %),» said Loong.

This fragmented management and trading environment is in sharp contrast to that of the modern financial world, and often presents a barrier for entry for a large percentage of the population.

Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.

As decreasing costs for both devices and data make smartphones more accessible to a larger percentage of the population, a digital stored value solution becomes even more feasible.

What it tells us is the percentage of the population in the total US labor force — those actually working and those looking for work.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3 percentage points, for each of the retired and not retired samples, of what the results would have been had the entire population of adults in Canada been polled.

These percentages are based on the importance of the five categories for the general population.

I have heard that we comprise a disproportionately high percentage of the troops for our population.

the index adjusts for that section of population as a percentage of the total.

The percentage of gay people relative to the general population has remained constant for ages.

In a nation in which Jews constitute barely 2 percent of the population, they account for close to half its billionaires, for the leadership of all three major television networks and many movie studios, for the ownership of the nation's largest chain of newspapers, and for considerable percentages of university faculties.

While some proponents advocate a flat monetary settlement to every descendant of a slave, others seek a social or political settlement — a percentage of the U.S. budget that would be allotted to improving schools with large minority populations, for example, or set aside for job training programs.

How is it possible for atheists to be responsible for the mass slaughter of people while being, by many religious apologists estimations, an extremely small percentage of the population?

As you can see, there is a reason that the population of religious inmates severely outnumbers that of the population on non-believers, even if you account for population percentages.

Though I guess we have gotten health care reform shoved down our throats for less percentage of the US population than that.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

As for this hurricane, the proper metric isn't simply total death, but deaths as a percentage of population.

For a large percentage of the world's population, turning their families into the Cleavers is simply not an option, so we would be doing harm to the Kingdom to require it.

On the whole, the rate of taxation is roughly proportional to income, except for the richest 5 % of the population.5 These percentages take on more meaning when it is recognized that 90 % of American families lived on incomes of less than $ 13,000 after taxes in 1970.6

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»

With increased average lifespans, it means a grayer and grayer Taiwan: In 1994 people over sixty - five years old accounted for only 7 percent of the population; by 2036 the figure will be three times as large - which means a smaller percentage of workers.

Ignoring the source of quorn for a few minutes (hard ask for some I know...), like most foods (5 % or so of Americans are supposedly allergic to turkey) there is often a small percentage of the population that are allergic to a specific food type Maybe you are allergic to mold

«We appeal to all age groups, so we will look for high - traffic areas that have strong population density and a high percentage of disposable income.»

However, penetration — the percentage of the population buying a brand — has fallen for each of the names included in the British top 10, and overall branded sales have decreased by 1.6 % in comparison to private label growth of 1.7 %.

But in 2011 an advisory panel for the FDA concluded that although artificial food dyes may trigger hyperactivity in a small percentage of children with behavioral problems such as ADHD, there isn't enough evidence to claim that food dyes cause hyperactivity in the general population.

Even if you can't wrap your head around the idea of loving a robot (let alone marrying one), imagine that for a certain percentage of the population it's not only not fantasy but preferable to relationships with humans.

And it is important to note that this «snip and sip» practice is happening in a very small percentage of the Orthodox Jewish population, and is not common practice for the Jewish people as a whole.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it winFor example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it winfor the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it winfor the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.

Clinton said other necessary reforms include proper treatment for the mentally ill and drug addicted who make up an increasingly larger percentage of the prison population, sentencing reform so people with low level offenses do not face long prison terms, and tackling income inequality, which is often at the root of the problem for many people caught in the criminal justice system.