Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic indicators»

The Census provides a wide range of socioeconomic indicators to support planning, administration, policy development and evaluation in the public and private sectors.

SUMMARY COMMENTARY INTRODUCTION The five - yearly Census of Population and Housing is one of the most important sources of information about Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, providing a wide range of socioeconomic indicators, particularly for small areas.

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This is partly because socioeconomic class in childhood is a strong indicator of socioeconomic class in adulthood.

A proxy indicator of SES was assigned based on participant's residential postcode using the Australian Bureau of Statistic's Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage / Disadvantage (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007b).

Despite its impressive performance in terms of some key socioeconomic indicators such as school enrolment and gender parity in enrolment — the exact causes of which are unclear given Bangladesh's debilitating politics and rampant corruption — the combined force of the structural problems is likely to prove insurmountable.

Policy to reduce bullying in the schoolyard needs to span all levels of society, say researchers from the University of Warwick, who warn that socioeconomic status is not a reliable indicator of whether a child is likely to become a bully.

This involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of data and comparing socioeconomic indicators.

To develop robust indicators of ecological health and socioeconomic benefits that can be utilized by resource managers.

[3] I also calculate the percentage of students in all grades who were eligible for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, an indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage.

But they may mark the beginning of the end of FRL's moonlighting for researchers and policymakers as a socioeconomic indicator.

For example, the NJDOE officials could develop a socioeconomic indicator basket made up of free lunch eligibility at the school level, the percentage of families living below the poverty line, and the percentage of lone parent households in the community.

Socioeconomic factors matter greatly in terms of comparing school outputs and a variety of indicators could easily be incorporated into the peer group formulations.

The national average of students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the best indicator of socioeconomic status — is 50 percent; 26 almost all these schools served school populations in which less than one - third of students were eligible for free or reduced - price lunches.

In fact, they are indicators of students» socioeconomic status, access to resources and other outside - of - school factors.

There are very few districts such as Raleigh that have at any point actively tried to desegregate schools by socioeconomic indicators, and the small size of districts in many states makes it impossible in a practical sense to try.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

Socioeconomic indicators of heat - related health risk supplemented with remotely sensed data

Johnson, D. P., J. S. Wilson, and G. C. Luber, 2009: Socioeconomic indicators of heat - related health risk supplemented with remotely sensed data.

The GBEP has developed a set of sustainability indicators intended to inform decision - making and foster sustainability, including in the context of socioeconomic considerations.

Mariam, Yohannes (1999): Causal Relationship Between Indicators of Human Health, the Environment and Socioeconomic Variables for the OECD Countries.

Its validity and sensitivity as an indicator of socioenvironmental influences on development have been demonstrated by evidence that it explains significant variance in childhood cognitive functioning over and above that attributable to socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal education.40, 41 Its validity for use with black samples has also been established.42 Because of safety considerations, the HOME was administered in the laboratory.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

Participants will be interviewed and asked about the socioeconomic status (SES) indicators, medical history, lifestyle (smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise) and use of medication.

A similar relationship was noted in the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey where an independent association between the number of dietary indicators met and a child's odds of experiencing emotional or behavioural problems was demonstrated.5 Other research with Australian adolescents has also demonstrated an association between dietary quality and mental health, even after controlling for socioeconomic status and a range of individual and family - level characteristics.41, 42 It appears that a more detailed exploration of the link between diet and mental health among Aboriginal children is warranted.

Amongst other things, it will look at some of the interplay between socioeconomic disadvantage and rural location for indicators like smoking rates and obesity, Ms Middleton said.

As an indicator of socioeconomic status, Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) scores, based on the English Indices of Deprivation, 47 were assigned to each child based on their reported home postcode, where higher scores indicate greater levels of deprivation.

In this study, data from a sample of 310 married couples was examined for relationships between indicators of marital satisfaction, socioeconomic variables, religiosity and finances to determine their impact on individual decisions to remain in relationships.

This study employs a novel approach to mediation analysis to clarify the influence of interrelated indicators of life course socioeconomic status (SES) on later life psychological well - being in India.

In reference to reading abilities among students with asthma, indicators of socioeconomic status, gender, and level of school absences were found to be predictive of reading scores.

However, the report also highlights that the data may not be an adequate reflection of relative income given the difference in composition and circumstances of many Indigenous households compared to non-Indigenous households.54 The report sets out a number of differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous households, some closely related to other socioeconomic indicators, which influences the quality of the GWEH data:

To their credit, Tschann and colleagues controlled for some important factors related to socioeconomic status (SES) and child characteristics (child's gender, hours worked weekly by mother, and two vs. single - parent households) but did not include other important indicators of SES such as parental age or education.