Sentences with phrase «per cent of the adult»

Fifty - nine per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese and, among children, obesity rates have almost tripled in the last 25 years.

Out of ten key types of historic buildings, 34 per cent of adults said castles should be protected for future generations, while 24 per cent believed the same should be said regarding cathedrals and churches.

A similar survey last year found 43 per cent of adults trusted the clergy.

Co-op Funeralcare said there is a growing trend towards celebration with 66 per cent of adults believing funerals are more about celebrating life.

A new survey has found that 51 per cent of adults in the UK say they pray, and a fifth of them are not... More

Their brain has grown a lot too: it's now reached 60 per cent of its adult size and has doubled in volume since birth.

The figures are more promising for Theresa May, with 53 per cent of adults satisfied with her as prime minister, up eight points from January.

Sixty - six per cent of adults think it is unacceptable for shareholders to run hospitals, children's homes or police services for profit.

The latest Home Office statistics reveal that between April 1999 and December 2005, 57 per cent of under - 18s and 41 per cent of adults breached their Asbos, compared to 47 per cent and 38 per cent respectively in the period to December 2003.

The report says 93 per cent of adults have eaten unprocessed meat in the three months to August 2017.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

Nearly 30 per cent of adults in the UK say evolution can't explain the origin of humans.

More than 65 per cent of adults worldwide are lactose intolerant and can not process the milk sugar lactose.

But infection rates are still breathtakingly high in many parts of Africa, reaching over 15 per cent of adults in countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe.

More than 10 per cent of adults and 25 per cent of adolescents report cannabis use over the past year.

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

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

Thirty - five per cent of adults with dyslexia report they were physically abused before they turned 18.

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.

Smoking is already down to 15.5 per cent of adults in England, but the government wants to go further, and is also targeting a teenage smoking rate of 3 per cent

One per cent of adults and five per cent of children are unable to achieve what most of us take for granted — speaking fluently.

Asian Flu affected 17 per cent and the most recent pandemic, Hong Kong Flu, made around 8 per cent of the adult population sick, despite the use of vaccines in both cases.

Then in 1976, an unidentified disease wiped out 99 per cent of adult fish and continued to preferentially kill older fish for years afterwards.

In the UK, just under six per cent of adults have diabetes and the NHS spends around 10 % of its budget on diabetes monitoring and treatments.

It's even more concerning when you consider that 65 per cent of adults resolved at lease once to lose weight and get in shape in the New Year.

A significant three per cent of adults fall into a so Create your gay online dating profile on to meet gay people online who share your interests, hobbies and values.

According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 10 million working days were lost last year to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), including back pain and upper limb disorders, and 80 per cent of adults develop lower back pain at some point in their lives.

Forty - five per cent of adults between the ages of 20 and 35 working in STEM related roles believe that subjects they studied in school are useless when it comes to working, a new report shows.

The children's inactivity problem is perhaps of little surprise when we also acknowledge the poor example being set by adults, with 29 per cent of adults in England failing to do at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a week.

We also know that their persistent exclusion from school has devastating long - term consequences, with only 3 per cent of adults with a disability in the developing world having achieved basic literacy.

Some statistics say that almost one - third of all kittens under three months old have roundworm, and about 10 per cent of all adult felines have it.

In 2012 - 13, 30 per cent of adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reported experiencing high levels of psychological distress.

The report confirms that about 1.1 per cent of the adult population — about 200,000 people — score eight or more on the Problem Gambling Severity Index (a screening tool for gambling problems) and these people are generally categorised in Australia as «problem gamblers».

Drug and alcohol problems were present in 29 per cent of adolescents and 45 per cent of adults.

This means that over a five - year period, around 55 per cent of the adult Indigenous population (around 155,000 people) will receive a health check with about 600,000 chronic disease services delivered.

A May 2013 Globe & Mail article, The rental - housing shortage is now a national disaster, stated that 42 per cent of adults between 20 and 29 are living with their parents, up 10 per cent from the early 1990s.

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The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

The CRTC found 29 per cent of English - speaking Canadian adults said they used Netflix for streaming in 2013, up from 21 per cent in 2012.

The poll by Angus Reid Institute, conducted this week among 2,125 Canadian adults, found that 55 per cent of respondents said they support the project, up from 49 per cent in February.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

Average weekly ordinary - time earnings of full - time adults (AWOTE) grew by 1.3 per cent in the March quarter, to be 4.6 per cent higher over the year.

Wage rates, as measured by average weekly ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE), increased by 1.3 per cent in the three months to February and by 4.6 per cent over the year (Graph 19).

Ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE) increased by 0.4 per cent in the three months to May, and by 4.1 per cent over the past year (Graph 31).

Working for themselves is also top of mind for many millennials with 74 per cent saying they thought of owning their own business, 11 percentage points higher than the average Canadian adult.

The poll of more than 2,000 British adults found that around 25 per cent think the future will get worse and 54 per cent think it will stay the same.

It might also be noted that both groups were more opposed to capital punishment than a representative sample of U.S. adults in 1980 (28 per cent opposed).

Bizarrely enough (and perhaps encouragingly), some 43 per cent of English adults also believe in the resurrection, the survey found.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

The study of 2,000 adults revealed one in 20 couldn't name Mary and Joseph as Jesus» parents while 16 per cent didn't know Jesus» occupation was a carpenter and thought he was jobless.