Sentences with phrase «proportion of children»

The panel B in Fig 1 depicts the three trajectory groups of Self - Control, along with the estimated proportion of children in each group.

The high proportion of children with back problems already will increase the future proportion of adults taking time off work, increasing the cost to the economy.

We have a higher and higher proportion of children who go to school and become a part of the modern world.

Disability and special needs A high proportion of children living in kinship care have a disability, additional needs or specific learning difficulties.

And it says that academies take a higher proportion of children on free school meals than the national average.

Of the local authorities with the smallest proportion of children gaining a place at their first preference school, the top 23 are all in the capital.

In addition, a large proportion of children start with absolute pitch and lose it.

This permits, for example, examination of what proportion of children whose age 3 score was classified as normal had a score at school entry which was also classified as normal.

Therefore it advocates a ban on all commercial food advertising during times when a substantial proportion of children are in the audience [1].

A high proportion of the children experienced stressful life events in the past 12 months.

The government is consulting on proposals for new grammar schools, including asking what proportion of children from lower income families they should admit.

The state also has a greater proportion of children who are uninsured compared to other states.

The researchers found that students in countries with higher proportions of children enrolled in private schools score higher on internationally comparable exams.

In some schools this will be a very significant proportion of the children and the case for providing meals will be very strong.

Notably, and as seen in section 2.1 above, the overall proportions of children with scores in the abnormal range for emotional symptoms and peer problems is quite small.

If we want to truly upgrade the overall quality of the local labor force, we need pre-K programs that provide high - quality services to a high proportion of all children.

Pearlstein quotes a Swedish demographer: «The USA stands out as an extreme case with its very high proportion of children born to a lone mother, with a higher probability that children experience a union disruption than anywhere else...»

A smaller proportion of children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin than expected were diagnosed with AspD before age 7 years, suggesting that children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin with a less severe clinical presentation may not currently be identified early.

A significantly lower proportion of children reach the expected level in their GCSEs than at the end of primary school (55.9 % vs. 78 % in 2014)

Queensland had the highest proportion of children aged under 15 years (35 %).

A multicomponent school - based intervention can be effective in preventing the development of overweight among children in grades 4 through 6 in urban public schools with a high proportion of children eligible for free and reduced - priced school meals.

Given that a huge proportion of these children attended parochial schools, it's not unreasonable to wonder whether Catholic education played a decisive role in the upward mobility of broad swaths of the American public — and whether that achievement can be repeated with poor students today.

Discusses the large proportion of child maltreatment deaths that are related to inadequate caregiver supervision and presents findings regarding the type of perpetrators, child age, and the number of children living in the home.

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle, who is leading the inquiry, said: «We want to really focus on why such a low proportion of children on free school meals attend grammar schools and what can be done to cut down the barriers.

On the basis of 95 % CIs, a smaller than expected proportion of children of CALD and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds with AspD were identified (Appendix 3).

While health officials have no idea how many people might be infected with hand, foot, and mouth disease in Cambodia, Buchy speculates that the population is largely naive to the virus and that «we may have a huge proportion of the child population that is not totally immune.»

«Grammar schools select only a tiny proportion of children for the best education, leaving others with a second rate choice.

The Brazilian authorities attribute the large proportion of children attacked — 18 of the 23 killed were minors — to the fact that youngsters sleep more soundly than adults and are less likely to be disturbed by the bats.

There was an ever - increasing proportion of children stricken under age 5.

However, the BHA has warned that 100 per cent religiously selective Christian schools are «less diverse» and admit a far higher proportion of children classified as «of white origin'than schools which operate under the 50 per cent cap on religious selection or do not select on religious grounds at all.

Because a large proportion of children most at risk for adverse developmental outcomes are also children covered by the Medicaid program (Title XIX) and the State Child Health Insurance Program (Title XXI), these 2 governmental programs potentially have a major role in determining what services are provided and how they are paid for.

PTI's international experience suggests that most countries that have a developed economy have a similar proportion of children with problems.

We aimed to 1) establish proportions of children with recurring, persisting, and resolving sleep problems; 2) identify early predictors of later sleep problems; and 3) identify whether persistent or recurrent sleep problems at age 3 to 4 years are associated with comorbidities such as child behavior problems, maternal depression, and poor family functioning.

However, there are a small proportion of children who challenge us with behavior that is persistent and unresponsive to the efforts of adults to meet their needs and guide their development.

That is, for example, what proportion of children whose score at school entry was classified as abnormal also had a score at pre-school which was classified as abnormal.

«Labour's Academies were focused on transforming under - performing schools, often in disadvantaged areas, and had a higher proportion of children on free school meals than the national average.

Our research has shown that a substantial proportion of children experience a house move in the first five years of their lives, that private renters are particularly likely to move and that house moves are associated with subsequent income poverty and poor maternal mental health.

A far smaller proportion of children from lower - income families attend the county's grammars than non-selective schools, according to figures.

An increasing proportion of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are undergoing recommended evaluation in the preschool years — but population rates of ASD remain higher in eight - year - olds compared to four - year - olds, reports a study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, the official journal of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

It seems probable that some middle and high schools are taking a tougher approach to discipline than others, and some of these schools — «suspension factories» if you will — serve high proportions of children of color.

However, it is clear that a small proportion of children do have quite severe difficulties at this point and a significant minority (around 21 %) display difficulties simultaneously across a range of behavioural domains.