Sentences with phrase «per cent of young people»

The survey revealed that 70 per cent of young people (ages 18 - 34) are anxious about not being properly informed about the buying or selling process.

A study by the NSPCC last year reported up to 40 per cent of young people had been involved in sexting and found teenage girls in particular were facing pressure from classmates to provide sexually explicit pictures of themselves.

Unfortunately, our most recent National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (ABS, 2008) confirmed that while 26 per cent of young people reported experiencing a significant mental health problem in the last 12 months (higher than any other age group), the vast majority (87 per cent of young men and 69 per cent of young women) did not receive any professional help.

Conservative estimates suggest that approximately three per cent of young people in Australia aged between six and 17 years, or 95,000 young people, have Conduct Disorder.

About 30 per cent of young people recovered; markers for this resilience were those who had high self - efficacy and lived in functional families.

Amnesty figures show that from July 2013 to June 2014, Indigenous young people made up an average of 96 per cent of all young people in detention in the NT (45 out of 47) while comprising around 44 per cent of the population aged between 10 and 17.

Only 38 per cent of older skiers and 37 per cent of young people who have ever been on a winter sports holiday say they purchased insurance for their most recent winter sports holiday.

Forty per cent of young people surveyed said a teacher trained in dealing with bullying would have made a difference to them, but of the 170 teachers who responded to the survey, only 30 per cent there was adequate support at school to help children with mental health issues.

The UK currently has the highest rate of childhood obesity in Europe, with 25 per cent of young people being classified as obese or overweight.

As reported by The Conversation, research shows that at least ten per cent of young people are same - sex attracted, four per cent are transgender or gender diverse and at least 1.7 per cent can be described as «gender diverse».

In 2015, one - fifth or reported images were self - generated and around 16 per cent of young people aged between 11 and 16 said they had sent sexual images in the UK and one in six people reported to the police for indecent images are minors themselves.

A further 40 per cent of young people surveyed maintained that having a teacher trained to deal with bullying would have made a significant difference to their experience.

Mission Australia's 2015 survey of Australian youth revealed almost 30 per cent of young people considered mental health to be a major issue affecting their lives.

«In terms of the overall proportion of young people who attain five or more A * - C grades at GCSE, including in English and maths, the North was among the lowest - performing of the English regions in 2013 - 14 — 54.9 per cent of young people attained this standard, compared to 56.8 per cent across England and 61.5 per cent in London.»

According to the EPI's findings, 66.9 per cent of young people aged 16 - 34 who had attempted suicide had not subsequently received medical or psychological help and specialist mental health services are on average turning away 23 per cent of the young people referred to them for treatment.

The poll, which quizzed 2,612 year 7 - 11 children in England and Wales, found that 74 per cent of young people think that they are either very or fairly likely to go into higher education.

Having interviewed 300 young people aged 16 to 25, the charity Fixers, who undertook the study, found that 27 per cent of young people said they had felt pressured into sexting, sexual activity, drinking alcohol or taking drugs while in or around school; 34 per cent did not feel safe walking to and from school; and 12 per cent had been sexually assaulted.

The results showed that 77 per cent of young people reported purchasing food and drink outside of school at lunchtime at least twice a week, as opposed to the school canteen.

The annual survey of perceptions, which was published by exam regulator Ofqual, also shows that 39 per cent of parents, 16 per cent of young people and six per cent of teachers are still unaware of the new system.

Sixty - nine per cent of young people are worried about parts of their appearance as they prepare to go back to school this week (4 September), research has shown.

Only around one per cent of young people in state alternative provision receive five good GCSEs.

Most of the bullying focus on weight and body shape, with 60 per cent of young people admitting they tried to change their appearance after being bullied and 24 per cent said they reduced the amount they ate or went on a diet.

In 2014, only 18 per cent of young people combine studies and work experience compared to 42 per cent in 1996.

Of course, this is by no means to suggest that the 25 per cent of young people who said they had heard about or taken part in a Tomorrow's Engineers Week activity in November will go on to become engineers.

Worryingly, the survey showed that 6 per cent of young people in London thought it was fine to share personal information about themselves online with strangers, compared to those in other parts of England.

The survey discovered 75 per cent of young people enjoy PE lessons in school and 64 per cent stated they feel better about themselves after doing sport.

Research into cyberbullying by Cross (et al., 2009) shows about 10 per cent of young people across Australia experience cyberbullying.

More than 70 per cent of Australia's children and 91 per cent of young people are not meeting the national physical activity recommendation of 60 minutes physical activity every day, according to a 2016 report by the AHPC.

This commitment doesn't stop once the young people have completed their programmes; research shows that 82 per cent of young people said that their DofE has made them want to continue with volunteering activities in the future.

The report, entitled «Improving alternative prison», found that 40 per cent of young people detained in youth offender institutes had not been to school since they were 14 years old.

Currently nearly five per cent of those young people with a statement are educated within the Independent sector.

It was also to ensure that 90 per cent of young people in need have access to sexual and reproductive health services and combination HIV prevention options by 2020.

87 per cent of young people say they feel more proud to be an Arab since the Arab Spring, and a majority feel the region's best days are ahead.

Twenty - five per cent of young people said they believed in God, 19 % believed in a non-Godlike «spiritual greater power» and 38 % were atheists who didn't believe in any greater spiritual power.

Thirty - four per cent of young people said it was «easy» to get the drugs.

Forty - one per cent of young people told pollsters «religion is more often the cause of evil in the world» while only 14 % said it was a cause for good.

While 54 per cent of young people want politicians to have higher moral standards, this increases to a whopping 80 per cent in people aged 65 and over — who are, after all, the age group most likely to vote.

Indeed, he emphasised that he found it «very worrying» that 12 per cent of young people in receipt of EMA had said they wouldn't stay in education if it were withdrawn.

To me, the greatest scandal of all is the bland indifference to this fact on the part of those who have the most power in our country: in many cities, 40 per cent of the young people are without work and may well belong permanently to a subculture of unemployment even after the economy as a whole recovers from recession.

(I am not here discussing Catholic independent schools, which cater for less than ten per cent of our young people).

Importantly the poll also found that Canadians aged 18 - 34 actually trail Baby Boomers in RRSP ownership and contribution rates with only 43 per cent of young people holding RRSPs compared to 69 per cent of older Canadians, so there is an urgent need to encourage and empower younger Canadians to start saving.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

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BMO says 84.4 per cent of households headed by young people owe some form of debt, compared with 82 per cent of the same households in 1984.

A teacher of religion, for example, must foster in the young people the central Christian experience; hence he ought to be able to help them through his own religious practice without asking them to invent anew everything belonging to the Christian life, which leads to nothing anyhow in ninety - five per cent of the cases.

A recent survey claimed that among a group of young people who called themselves Christian, forty five per cent said they did not believe in God.

It breaks the Chinese organic consumer into eight main groups: white collar families (40 per cent of the market), families with young children, families with health issues, overseas returnees, business people from Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong (China), government officials, young people and foreigners living in China.

The football comes secondary to the cause, of course, with 90 per cent of the proceeds from the match going to the club's official charity — the LFC Foundation — to support its programmes and partnerships, which aim to create life - changing opportunities for children and young people.

53 per cent of employers believe they should get more involved with schools, colleges and universities to help change the perception of engineering among young people

The independent watchdog has published a report which found more than half (56 per cent) of young people aged 17 - 24 are unregistered and 31 per cent of people with black or minority ethnic backgrounds are not on the register.

The report also contains the results of a snapshot survey which revealed that 55 per cent of youth workers had experienced change to the services that they deliver; with 73 per cent of those replying that these changes had a negative impact on the provision of services for young people.