Sentences with phrase «likely than the population»

Canada's youth are 15 — 20 % more likely than the population as a whole to consider emigrating in search of the right job, a split surpassed only by our southern neighbours:

Not exact matches

Also, podcast listeners are more likely to share on social networks, and they have higher income than the general population, according to Edison's research.

The rest of the population wasn't much better: Overall, 66 percent of Americans are more likely to trust debit cards than credit cards.

Money aside, the people who live in these neighbourhoods aren't your average Canadians: They have stronger conservative views than the general population, they're more likely to be married and they have slightly larger families, according to detailed data provided by Environics Analytics.

He or she actually is less controlling than the rest of the population — and more likely to be emotionally unstable.

«There is simply no basis to conclude that immigrants are more likely to foster a terrorist or criminal element than the native population,» he said.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Freireich lost a parent and helped cure childhood leukemia but, as Gladwell mentions in passing, prisoners are also two to three times more likely to have lost a parent than the rest of the population.

African American (21 %) and Hispanic (18 %) business owners were more likely than their counterparts in the general population (10 %) to be in the startup phase.

On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

The world's aging population, meanwhile, is likely to keep growth — and inflation — lower than they have been in the past.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

It found that very successful scientists are about 5 times as likely to have no current religious affiliation (it's arguable if that equates more to atheism or agnosticism) than the general population.

Protestants are less likely to have an abortion than other segments of the population....

In fact, the human population likely dropped to fewer than 10,000.

This study also informed us that Asian Americans are wealthier and more highly educated than the U.S. population as a whole, and more likely to identify with the Democratic Party.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

In general, evangelicals are often more likely to perceive things as being cheating than the general population, although Mormons were more likely than evangelicals to call things cheating on most issues.

The East African nation, which with 36 million Orthodox Christians make it the world's second - largest Orthodox population are also more likely than Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe to wear religious symbols (93 per cent vs 64 per cent), to say they believe in God with absolute certainty (89 per cent vs 56 per cent), and to tithe (57 per cent vs 14 per cent).

(Mormons are much more likely than evangelicals or the U.S. population overall to see immigrants as making a positive contribution to society, said David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame, who helped advise the Pew Forum on the survey.)

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

The report stated that overall, Christians are more likely than the general population as a whole to think any given Commandment remains important.

Tea Party supporters appear to be better educated, wealthier, and more likely to call themselves conservative than the general population.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view religious adherents as dogmatists.

American atheists are significantly less likely to get married than the general population and atheism is significantly less appealing to women.

Will S, i expect that your education has also resulted in your being less likely to condemn your neighbors who believe differently than yourself and keeps you from attempting to enforce your theology on the population at large.

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

Note: The ACOG states that pregnant women are 13 times more likely to get listeria than the general population.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

Whilst it is clearly accurate to say that that the risk of not breastfeeding is greater with some conditions than others, what is a small protective effect in one child is likely to have a much more dramatic effect across a whole population.

Ah yes, this is definitely relevant, but due to lack of clear data, hard to decipher the true role, but we can say with certainty that premature babies are far more likely amongst non-white populations and poor socioeconomic status, meaning that the true complication rate is higher than reported.

Meaning that LESS THAN 7 % of the Dutch population is African or Afro - Carribbean, and most likely much more like 3 - 5 %.

Moms are more likely than the general population to own a both a smartphone and a tablet.

Top 5 Qualities Moms Want in Mobile & Tablet Apps Moms are more likely than the general population to own a both a smartphone and a tablet.

However, it's extremely likely that Putin's winning margin will be more than the entire population of Crimea, in which case deleting all votes from Crimea couldn't possibly change the result.

Now in 2016, less than 1 % of the population are farmers, cars have existed for more than a century, and when most young people hear the word «Sabbath» they are more likely to think of Ozzy Osbourne than church on Sunday.

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

Furthermore, I can't see people taking very well to the Liberal Democrats supporting a Labour government (not that that would work, since there is still liberal elements in the Liberal Democrats, notably Nick Clegg) if as seems likely less than a quarter of the population votes for Labour.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

Firearm - related deaths per 100,000 population per year US: 11.72 England and Wales: 0.38 Even stripping out suicides (shooting yourself is a far more popular method in the US than the UK, evidently) you're still more than 20 times more likely to be shot to death in the US than the UK.

But today's statistics bear out the impression gun and knife crime is most prevalent among young people, with 21 - to 29 - year - olds more than twice as likely to be murdered as the general population.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

A significant share of the gaps in income, education, crime, and other socio - economic indicators between Southern states and non-Southern states in the U.S. is associated statistically with having larger African - American populations, although Southern whites are still lower in income, less likely to receive educations, and more likely to commit crimes, etc. than whites in metropolitan areas outside the South.

The issue of cousin marriage has been in the headlines since research two years ago showed British Pakistanis were 13 times more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.