Sentences with phrase «national estimates»

Short video reviews high - level findings of national estimates of youth experiencing homelessness.

While figures vary, national estimates suggest that only between 10 and 24 percent of remedial students get associate's degrees and between 19 and 35 percent get bachelor's degrees.

The simple fact is that local governments are struggling to keep up with the chaos, and have not had the resources to verify any accurate national estimated number of deaths.

Understanding the value of imperfect science from national estimates of bird mortality from window collisions.

They also made national estimates of the cost of unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging and the health burden of this testing, in terms of cancer risk due to radiation exposure.

The new studies will help refine the global estimates that do exist while improving national estimates.

Nearly 10 percent reported having pet insurance, a rate much higher than national estimates of all pet owners.

National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet: General information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States

Kevin J. Vagi, PhD, of the CDC in Atlanta, and coauthors provide updated prevalence estimates for TDV, which include the first - ever published overall «both physical and sexual TDV» and «any TDV» national estimates using the revised and new questions.

«This large sample provides the first national estimates of the prevalence of e-cigarette use among U.S. adults with medical comorbidities,» explained lead investigator Gina R. Kruse, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Of the children in our sample, 13 % were identified as bullies, which is similar to a recent national estimate of prevalence of 19 %.8 We therefore conclude that the maternal report of bullying is a reasonable and informative assessment of true bullying behavior.

Subica and his colleague, Li - Tzy Wu, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, took on the project in part because national estimates of Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial adolescent substance use and suicidality are scarce, presumably due to their small population sizes.

Once a reliable pattern has been established, it can be extrapolated to give a better national estimate of the denominator figure.

National estimates reveal that English - language learners may be over-represented in the learning disabilities category due to the fact that neither a method for accurate identification nor a consistent definition of learning disabilities across states exists.

The researchers were surprised to see that the prevalence of cannabis and alcohol use disorder in this study was notably higher than national estimates with 21 percent meeting criteria for cannabis use disorder and 20 percent meeting criteria for alcohol use disorder at age 18.

Driven in part by older maternal age and greater obesity, rates of preeclampsia are rising rapidly, yet surprisingly there are few national estimates of the health and economic impact of preeclampsia on mothers and their infants.

Graduation Rates - When asked to estimate the percent of ninth - graders who graduate within four years of entering ninth grade, Americans on average offer a pessimistic guess of 66 percent, 9 percent below the U.S. Department of Education's official national estimate.

The authors write that some major national estimates support their finding, with an estimated 2.5 billion visits per year to protected areas in the United States and over 1 billion visits per year to China's National Parks.

The report notes that overdiagnosis has been associated with early diagnosis in prostate cancer, but there have been no previous national estimates of its magnitude.

National estimates for the major causes of fires in residential buildings for 2011, the most recent year data are available, are:

National estimates indicate that non-Hispanic black women are less likely to initiate breastfeeding and more likely to stop breastfeeding than Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women.

National estimates suggest relatively high numbers, at least thousands in a community the size of Anchorage.

According to the most recent national estimates, 30 percent of state and local government employees, many of whom are teachers, are not covered by Medicare because they do not belong to the Social Security program and rely on an independent retirement health - care plan.

Using national estimates of private and homeschooling rates, however, does not account for the full discrepancy between the two data sources.

From 1968 until 1972 he served as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency.

... the rate of abuse by Catholic priests is not higher than... national estimates.

National estimates of the 10 leading causes of nonfatal injuries treated in hospital emergency departments, United States — 2010.

, Wagner noted that his paper Rates of caesarean section: analysis of global, regional and national estimates (Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2007; 21:98 — 113) is the first to compare international C - section rates with maternal and neonatal mortality.

Most people in South Florida, an estimated 54 percent, think global warming is already harming people in the United States, also 6 points higher than the national estimate.

Another proposed technique that Durgana noted as potentially useful is aggregating data from statewide estimates of human trafficking and using that data to generate a national estimate.

They then used that data, along with less complete disease surveillance data from 18 other states and information from a panel of dengue experts, to calculate a national estimate for annual dengue cases, including ambulatory cases (ones in which the patient was treated but not hospitalized).

According to national estimates, approximately 54 percent of violent victimizations are not reported to the police.

According to national estimates, more than a quarter million children with autism and other developmental disorders wander away from adult supervision each year, said Andrew Adesman, MD, FAAP, a senior investigator for the abstracts being presented and Chief of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics at the Seven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York.

The incidence of new infections recorded in the deferred group was roughly seven - times higher than the national estimate of 1 · 34 cases per 100 person - years reported for men who have sex with men attending sexual health clinics in the UK 2012.

Finally, the researchers used the 1990 - 99 and 2008 national estimates to assess if four potentially relevant country - level factors, namely access to efficient syphilis screening and treatment, health expenditure, GDP per capita, and circumcision prevalence, were correlated with syphilis prevalence over that time period.

However, policymakers, scientific administrators, patients, and physicians have not had a national estimate of the health care burden and costs of preeclampsia.

National estimates of death following general surgery have been too optimistic, according to the first large - scale study to explore surgical outcomes across Europe, led by Queen Mary, University of London.

Pioneer's national estimate of $ 16 billion includes nearly $ 7 billion for technology infrastructure — costs that authors of the Fordham study say most districts have already incurred.

National Estimates of the Percentage of High School Graduates Who Immediately Enrolled in College, 1980 — 2004, by Income and Race and Ethnicity