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Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. veteran population was more than 21 million strong as of 2014.

The Greater Toronto Area grew by 5.1 % between 2006 and 2011, setting its population at almost 5.6 million, according to Statistics Canada figures, an increase of more than 477,000 people.

According to the latest statistics from the CDC, 11.3 percent of all Americans over the age of 20 have diabetes, and 35 percent of the population — more than one - third — has prediabetes.

The book is crammed with statistics on how Jews, less than three percent of the American population, are disproportionately successful, especially in the university, media, and entertainment elites.

I'll leave it to you to figure out your error, but I will agree that you can use the statistics to show that believers have fewer abortions than non-believers as a percentage of each population.

A more recent 1990 survey of more than 10,000 persons by the National Center for Health Statistics indicates that homosexuals and bisexuals combined amount to approximately 1.5 percent of the population.

Yet, while exact statistics are lacking, by the end of the century the percentage of the population attending public worship, although larger than in Germany, appears to have declined from the level of the mid-century.

«We looked at current population statistics, which indicated there were more participants in the school lunch program than were eligible,» said Daniel.

Lower estimations of how many people safely bedsharing in our population significantly makes crib sleeping look much, much safer than bedsharing because parents are not afraid to say that their babies sleep in cribs; but many who bedshare and their babies live, and are not therefore counted in relative risks of crib vs. bedsharing statistics.

But today's statistics bear out the impression gun and knife crime is most prevalent among young people, with 21 - to 29 - year - olds more than twice as likely to be murdered as the general population.

The population statistics of the United States show that living into old age is the exception rather than the rule:

Aided by sophisticated statistics and worldwide genetic databases, they can tease apart ancestry and population mixing with more nuance than ever before.

According to the CDC's latest statistics, more than a third of the U.S. population is sleeping less than seven hours per night.

«These findings add to our understanding of how childhood stress is a more important driver of long - term weight gain than adult stress, and how such processes differ for men and women,» said Hui Liu, MSU associate professor of sociology and an expert in statistics, population - based health and family science.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the total population of the metropolitan area of Perth 202 million (2014), it is Australia's fourth largest city, population growth rates higher than the national average sStatistics, the total population of the metropolitan area of Perth 202 million (2014), it is Australia's fourth largest city, population growth rates higher than the national average statisticsstatistics.

More than 17 million singles live in the United Kingdom, according to the latest census data, and the Office for National Statistics reports that 2 % of the UK's total population describe their ethnicity as Black, African, Caribbean, or Black British.

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More than half the uk population is now single, according to the office for national statistics, and the largely unregulated dating industry is estimated to be worth.

The Office for National Statistics estimates 51 % of the UK population... from dating apps and websites than text...

Each of these statistics suggest that the applicants were less advantaged than the eligible population overall.

They also looked at similar statistics in a dozen of the state's most populous counties and 21 cities with populations of more than 100,000 in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

We apply the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) definition of high - minority schools as those with student populations that are more than 75 percent African American or Hispanic; similarly, in high - poverty schools, more than 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

Still, the statistics for San Diego are impressive considering it's one of only three cities in the top 10 to have a population greater than 1 million.

The report analyzed median home prices derived from publicly recorded sales deed data collected by ATTOM Data Solutions and average wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 464 U.S. counties with a combined population of more than 197 million.

According to a recent Globe and Mail article which references Statistics Canada numbers, «the total amount of debt held in households led by people aged 55 to 64 almost quadrupled between 1999 and 2012, while the level for the overall population did little more than double (these are inflation - adjusted numbers).

We know that if we look at statistics, less than two - thirds of pets leave veterinary hospitals in areas where heartworm is endemic, common, without sufficient heartworm protection to protect either the entire pet population in the house or pets for the entire transmission season.

According to statistics, we, the youth, make up more than 60 % of Saudi's total population.

«There is no doubt in my mind that I will not be able to succeed and show the collective population that there is more to homelessness than tattered faces and simplified statistics.»

In Africa, for example, less than a third of the countries were able to provide data for the period between 1995 and 2003 on births, deaths and the economic characteristics of the population by sex (UN, The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics).

The statistics, from national recycling campaign Recycle Now, reveal that more than half the UK population (54 %) wants to find out more about what their recycling gets used for, while nearly two thirds (64 %) agree that their recycled items have a value and can be sold to make new products.

Compared to the Canadian population, fewer respondents (47 %) had incomes less than $ 40,000 per year than the general population (60 %), and more respondents (31 %) had incomes of $ 60,000 or more per year than the general population (23 %), see Figure 4.1 (Canadian population data from Statistics Canada estimate for 2014, CANSIM table 206-0051).

Respondents tend to be younger than the Canadian population as a whole, see Figure 2.1 (Canadian population data from Statistics Canada 2011 Census, catalogue no. 98 -311-XCB2011025).

Statistics show that married drivers average fewer accidents than the rest of the population so policy owners who are married often receive lower premiums than single persons.

According to Statistics Canada, the number of volunteers are growing faster than Canada's population!

Statistics show that young men tend to drive more aggressively and to take more risks behind the wheel than the general driving population, and their accident rates reflects this.

The Office for National Statistics report in graduate recruitment shows the vast increase in the size of the graduate population, an increase of more than 430,000 graduates in the past 10 years from 1,063,000 in 2001 to 1,501,000 in 2011, which means a much more competitive jobs market for graduates than in the past.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 2.4 million servers will work for restaurants by 2024; the organization recently rated the sector's job outlook as «good», because «as the population grows and more people dine out, more new restaurants are expected to open.»

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, although older workers have a lower unemployment rate than the population at large it takes longer for them to find work once they have been laid off.

This is reflected in the statistics, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women one and a half times more likely to be overweight or obese than non-Indigenous women [7] and a higher proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged over 15 years and over reporting that they were overweight or obese (57 %) compared with the non-Aboriginal population (54 %)[7].

The average level of education was higher for the sample than for the general population of women aged between 16 and 49 years (official statistics from 2008 in brackets): compulsory school 7.0 % (28.1 %), vocational school 26.7 % (35.7 %), three - year college 39.2 % (29.8 %) and university / higher education 21.9 % (6.4 %).

In recent years, Berwick has become known as The Small Town with a Lot to Offer and according to 2006 Statistics Canada Census data, Berwick is the fastest growing town in Nova Scotia with a population of more than 3,000 year - round residents.