Sentences with phrase «of the adult population»

In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

If successful, could Zimbabwe's EcoCash overtake Kenya's M - Pesa — which, with a four - year head start has signed up two - thirds of the adult population in that country — as the world's gold standard for wireless financial services?

More than 4 percent of the adult population has the disorder.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking rates have fallen from 21 percent of the adult population in 2005 to 15 percent in 2015, when the agency conducted its latest survey.

By 2020, they will represent roughly one - third of the adult population.

According to APF's fall 2015 survey, the Undecided Traders make up around 13 % of the adult population.

This represents approximately 77 percent of the adult population of the U.S.

In Puerto Rico, only 40 percent of the adult population is employed or looking for work, against 63 percent in the rest of the United States.

Nearly half of the adult population in this region doesn't have a bank account.

Total Early - Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA): As the main indicator used in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the TEA represents the percentage of the adult population (18 to 64 years) that is in the process of starting or who have just started a business (GEM, 2016).

The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population.

[9] Additionally, according to Newsweek magazine, the figure in the Catholic Church is similar to that in the rest of the adult population.

We'll have about 10 % of the adult population in same sex relationships.

The proportion of the adult population that was married also fell steadily, while the divorce rate began a seemingly inexorable rise; by 1910 (and thanks largely to Nevada), the United States was the divorce capital of the world.

Perhaps 5 % of the adult population is addicted to opiates.

The numbers are staggering: 40 percent of the adult populations of some African nations may be infected.

These losses, however, have been partly offset by the number of people who have changed their affiliation to Catholicism (2.6 % of the adult population) but more importantly by the disproportionately high number of Catholics among immigrants to the U.S..

Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement make up just 11 percent of the adult population - half the size of the current conservative Christian movement (22 percent).

The accompanying table reports on the religious vote, based on a large national survey of the adult population (conducted before and after the election at the University of Akron with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts).

Based on the body mass index scale — which some experts are wary of — people with BMI of 30 and higher account for about 33 percent of the adult population and about two - thirds of American adults are obese or overweight.

The two groups are also about equal in numbers, each constituting about 40 percent of the adult population (judging from the ways in which people categorize themselves).

The fact of the matter is a significant amount of the adult population never deliberately attempts to emotionally grow and develop from their high school days onward.

It's thought that approximately 20 percent to 30 percent of the adult population is thought to have Staphylococcus bacteria on their skin or in their noses.

There are certain segments of the adult population that I find loud and annoying.

There are segments of the adult population that create a ruckus and make a mess.

There are segments of the adult population that do not act appropriately in public places.

There are segments of the adult population that ask stupid questions and make ignorant remarks.

Stomach sleeping is the rarest sleep position out there, accounting for just 7 % of the adult population.

Let me offer this tongue - in - cheek way of ensuring equality between nursing mothers and the rest of the adult population.

Putting that lesson solely in the hands of an adult population that is not properly educated on nutrition and has been conditioned by the very power food marketing industry is a very dangerous approach.

The seat has one of the highest proportions of university graduates of any constituency in Britain: at the 2011 Census, 44 % of its adult population had a degree or equivalent qualification.

Looking at this purely mathematically, members of congress make up 0.00027 % of the adult population.

At the same time party membership levels have fallen by over 90 % in both the big two parties — from roughly one in 11 of the adult population to about one in 100.

Daniel Dromm of District 25 in Queens, highlighted the injustice in their districts, where over 35 % of the adult population is unable to vote.

The next columns along show the percentage of the population that was white British in 2011; whether under - 35s or over-55s are a bigger share of the adult population; and the share of the over-16 population that were in full - time education at the time of the census.

In addition, those bands make up most of the adult population as well.

The discovery answers important questions about how the virus spreads and provides a potential roadmap for the development of antiviral drugs to combat both that virus and the more common Epstein - Barr virus, which is present in more than 90 percent of the adult population and is believed to have a nearly identical structure.

The worldwide prevalence of primary SjS has been estimated at about 0.2 % of the adult population.

As the moon's shadow crisscrossed the country on Aug. 21, about 154 million American adults saw the eclipse directly, with another 60 million watching electronically — 88 percent of the adult population.

The analysis in this report relies primarily on data from a Pew Research Center survey of the general public, using a probability - based sample of the adult population by landline and cellular telephone Aug. 15 - 25, 2014, with a representative sample of 2,002 adults nationwide.

Data compiled by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, affiliated with the European Union, show that the United States leads the world, with roughly 30 % of its adult population holding 4 - year college degrees.

«Despite representing only 16 percent of the adult population, adults with mental health disorders receive more than half of all opioid prescriptions distributed each year in the United States,» said Matthew Davis, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the U-M School of Nursing.

It is one of the most common chronic liver problems in the world and affects almost 30 percent of the adult population.

Around 20 per cent of the adult population experiences breathing problems during sleep.

Schnittker notes that in 2006, 7.5 percent of the adult population, or 16 million people, were inmates or ex-inmates, a number that approximates the number of unemployed during the recession of 2008 — 2009.

Bipolar disorder affects 1 to 3 percent of the adult population worldwide.

But as of 2010, only 8 percent of the adult population had actually received one.

If more than 1 per cent of the adult population — that is, eight of the 800 animals remaining — is removed per year, the species will go extinct, Meijaard says.

The survey of the general public was conducted using a probability - based sample of the adult population by landline and cellular telephone Aug. 15 - 25, 2014, with a representative sample of 2,002 adults nationwide.