Sentences with phrase «greater proportions of the population»

People are getting infected at younger ages and in greater proportions of the population than ever before.

The total number of tax resisters is not known; quite likely, they constitute no great proportion of our population.

Greater proportions of the populations molted to white in higher latitudes.

However the analyst says what's true for the current crop of (still early adopter) tablet owners, won't be true as tablet ownership expands to take in a greater proportion of the population.

There is also a greater proportion of the population now that earns more than 2.5 X as much as the median - about 11 % of households in 2014 - which suggests perceptions of what is «a lot of money» will vary more now than it would have in 1970.

Not exact matches

Even though they might be creating jobs merely in the single or small double digits, they are the backbone of what makes America great, considering that a sizable proportion of the working population is employed by small businesses.

Indeed, a half century ago, the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population was quite a bit greater than the combined proportion of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists today.

Sugar - sweetened beverages accounted for the greatest proportion of the AS intake of the Australian population (21 · 4 (sd 30 · 1) %), followed by sugar and sweet spreads (16 · 3 (sd 24 · 5) %) and cakes, biscuits, pastries and batter - based products (15 · 7 (sd 24 · 4) %).

Though more whites receive Medicaid benefits than other races combined, black and Hispanic recipients comprise a greater proportion of Medicaid recipients compared with their proportion of the county population, in keeping with broader poverty demographics.

Population shifts in the state, including a greater proportion of Hispanic and Asian Californians, are also worth noting, as these two population groups both have relatively low smoking prevalence.

Growing numbers of older people compared to younger ones in a population could create unsustainable burdens on social support and healthcare systems if a greater number of older people are dependent on a declining proportion of working - age people in the population.

The most likely explanation is that immunity generated more intense selection by killing a greater proportion of the parasite population up until the point of transfer (Figure 2).

The greatest consumption is generally roughly proportional to the population of each state except for Queensland and Tasmania which consume more than the proportion expeced from their population.

The relationship between allele frequency and depression was partially mediated by individualism — collectivism, suggesting that reduced levels of depression in populations with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles is due to greater collectivism.

Correlation between the proportion of the population with the G allele of the A118G polymorphism and individualism - collectivism [Suh et al., 1998; r (26) = 0.65, P < 0.001]; higher scores represent greater individualism and lower collectivism.

Correlation between the proportion of the population with low expression alleles of the MAOA - uVNTR polymorphism and individualism - collectivism [Suh et al., 1998; r (13) = 0.67, P < 0.05]; higher scores represent greater individualism and lower collectivism.

During 1999 - 2001, homicides as a proportion of total deaths, were far greater in the Indigenous population (2.1 per cent) than the non-Indigenous population (0.2 per cent).

Specifically, the percentage of African - American children who enter the system and remain in out - of - home care is greater than their proportion of the country's population (Anderson, 1997).

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

Moreover, establishing contact with a significant proportion of parents through therapy and support centres for children with ASD probably skewed the composition of the group towards greater participation of individuals benefiting from professional support than in the general population of these families.

Because a higher proportion of the Indigenous population live in rural and remote areas, the doctor shortage in the bush is having a greater impact on Indigenous peoples when compared to the non-Indigenous population, for example.

The study sample was found to be representative of the general population of the United Kingdom at the start of data collection, except for a smaller proportion of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater number of owner - occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).