Sentences with phrase «per cent of girls»

Forty per cent of boys and young men and 25 per cent of girls and young women in custody have experienced violence at home.

For example, 26 per cent of girls (39 million) and 17 per cent of boys of secondary school age (11 - 15) were not enrolled in school in 2008.

A greater proportion of girls met the phonics standard: 85 per cent of girls and 78 per cent of boys met the standard this year.

The report we put out last week, with UK Feminista, shows how urgent this is because sexual harassment of girls is widespread, with 37 per cent of girls in mixed - sex schools having been sexually harassed at school.

Breaking down the results by gender, 28.5 per cent of boys were considered developmentally vulnerable in one or more domains, compared to 15.5 per cent of girls.

Writing is the subject with the largest difference in attainment — 75 per cent of girls reached the expected standard in 2017 compared to 62 per cent of boys.

It also noted that secondary school - aged boys (11 - 16) are happier with the amount of physical activity they take part in and enjoy it more than girls (71 per cent of boys compared to 56 per cent of girls).

In addition, it noted that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives, compared to 60 per cent of boys.

It found that boys lag behind girls, with 62 per cent of boys achieving good levels compared with 77 per cent of girls.

Recent statistics show that in the UK, 25 per cent of boys and 33 per cent of girls between two and 19 years of age are overweight or obese.

As reported by Tes, 49 per cent of boys aged between seven and 15 noted IT or computing as a favourite school subject, compared with 26 per cent of girls.

Twenty - seven per cent of girls, among pupil participants, state that STEM careers are not the right choice for them, in comparison to 14 per cent of boys which said the same.

The gender gap also narrowed slightly with 73.1 per cent of girls achieving at least a C grade, compared to 64.7 per cent of boys.

In Denmark, 20 per cent of boys and 10 per cent of girls have a delayed school start.

It cites figures showing just 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls met recommended guidelines for moderate exercise per day and that British children born today were on course to be 35 per cent less active by 2035.

Official guidelines recommend that children spend an hour a day being physically active — yet only 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls achieve this.The assessments contained basic fitness tests in stamina, agility, coordination and cardiovascular endurance, which provide a good indication of physical literacy.

A gender breakdown shows that almost three in ten (29 per cent) male pupils admitted they had felt this way — along with 73 per cent of girls.

The National Literacy Trust also found a significant gender gap, with 51.9 per cent of girls enjoying writing, compared to 36.8 per cent of boys.

Just 40.4 per cent of boys enjoy writing, compared to 57.4 per cent of girls, and only 21.9 per cent of boys write daily outside class, compared to 32.3 per cent of girls.

These figures compare with 16 per cent of boys and 9 per cent of girls from better off homes who similarly fall behind by age 16.

Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.

The results highlight that the gender gap is still an issue, with 61.8 per cent of girls achieving five good GCSEs compared to 52.5 per cent of boys.

The study showed that 36 per cent of bright but disadvantaged boys seriously underachieve at age 16, and 24 per cent of girls getting disappointing GCSE results.

Overall, 24.3 per cent of pupils achieved the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc), which requires GCSEs in two sciences, a language, history or geography, as well as English and maths, with 29.3 per cent of girls achieving the Ebacc compared to 19.5 per cent of boys.

When surveyed after Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2014, the impact on perception was particularly striking for girls, as 44 per cent of girls aged 11 to 14 agreed that engineering careers are desirable, 18 per cent more than the benchmark.

Additionally, 59 per cent of girls and young women aged 13 - 21 questioned in 2014 said they had faced some form of sexual harassment at school or college in the past year.

The gap has decreased from 16.3 percentage points to 15.6 percentage points, but only 58.6 per cent of boys start school with the expected level of development, compared to 74.3 per cent of girls.

Additionally, a BBC Learning and Discovery Research report found that 39 per cent of girls who used the BBC micro: bit said they will now choose ICT / computer science as a subject option in the future, compared to just 23 per cent before trying out the micro: bit.

According to a recent study by dating site MySingleFriend, only 21 per cent of girls.

Eighty - five per cent of the girls had been subjected to FGM since it was outlawed, almost two - thirds of them by non-medical personnel (Reproductive BioMedicine Online, vol 16, p 27).

Walding gave one example where more than 55 per cent of boys solved a problem that only 30 per cent of girls completed successfully.

Last year, nearly 46 per cent of girls gained five or more passes at the top grades (A to C) in the GCSE examinations taken at 16, while fewer than 37 per cent of boys reached the same standard.

About 40 per cent of all boys and 27 per cent of all girls had had sex with more than one partner during the 12 months preceding the survey.

About six per cent of girls became pregnant or contracted an STI between Grades 10 and 12, with 10,187 pregnancies and 6,259 cases of non-HPV-related sexually transmitted infections.

Researchers found that 17 per cent of girls from black backgrounds and 22 per cent of girls from Asian backgrounds who hadn't been vaccinated said that they did not need the vaccination and the reasons they gave included that they did not expect to be sexually active before marriage.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) because they feel they don't need to have it, according to a Cancer Research UK survey presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

Staying out late in adolescence is an accepted sign of growing independence, but this study finds that there is a small minority of 15 year olds — seven per cent of boys and five per cent of girls - who regularly stay out late without their parents knowing where they are.

According to him, over 50 per cent of girls between the age bracket of 18 and 20 were given out in marriage in this part of the country.

A Conservative Party spokesman explains why information released by the party, claiming that 54 per cent of girls in the most deprived communities fell pregnant before their 18th birthday was wrong.

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Of the children in care who experienced sexualized violence, 64 per cent were Aboriginal girls.

[4] The # 246 million spent had, it was claimed, reduced the number of 15 - to 17 - year - old girls getting pregnant to four in every 100 in 2008, a 13 per cent drop from 1998.

According to a Child Poverty Action Group survey child benefit for your first boy or girl covered 14 per cent of the cost of raising a child.

He praised his government for achieving 97 per cent in school enrolment including a gender parity ratio of 1:1 for boys and girls.

One of the most controversial aspects of the proposals is to incarcerate girls and boys together: only five per cent of children behind bars are girls.

18 per cent of 15 year old girls who have not stayed out past 9 pm smoke.

Official figures suggest 22 per cent of young girls and 19 per cent of boys will be official obese by 2010.

«We will continue to earmark 7.5 per cent of all VAT receipts to finance educational infrastructure and other expenditure, including targeted girl - child educational programmes,» Mr Terkper said.

Self - poisoning was the most common method of suicide - related behaviors for boys (62.2 per cent) and girls (74.1 per cent) and cut - pierce injuries were the next most common for both groups.

Concerns about side effects of the vaccination were most commonly reported by unvaccinated girls from white backgrounds — 27 per cent.