Sentences with phrase «proportion of its population aged»

Additional district demographic information, including the proportion of the population aged 5 to 17 and the proportion of school - aged children living in poverty, comes from the U.S. Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for most years.

Not exact matches

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

It measures the proportion of the working age population that actually has a job.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

People are getting infected at younger ages and in greater proportions of the population than ever before.

So if a population has a high proportion of young people, one has to wait for the average age of the population to increase before deathrates catch up with birthrates.

However, with our aging population and unprecedented levels of blue light exposure, the prediction is that we will see AMD reach epidemic proportions in the coming years.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Its 100 members included both citizens and elected politicians: 66 were chosen randomly from the population of adult citizens to be broadly representative in terms of region, sex, age, class and work status, and 33 were nominated from the Oireachtas (Parliament) by the political parties in proportion to their parliamentary strength (and also included one representative of each of the four parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that accepted the invitation to participate).

2011 Census information on total population, population density, and the proportion of the resident population falling into different categories of gender, age, household type, housing tenure, ethnicity, country of birth, passports held, English (or Welsh in Wales) spoken as a main language, religion, National Statistics Socio - economic Classification (NS - SeC), Economic activity, industrial sector, qualifications, health, and deprivation.

The rate is calculated by the House of Commons library and shows the number of claimants as a proportion of the estimated economically active population aged 16 to 64 resident in each constituency in 2008.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

The absolute numbers of older Americans with dementia are sure to grow as the population ages in the coming decades, but new data suggest that the overall proportion with the condition is mysteriously declining.

These findings persisted even after taking into account individual, school, and state - level factors that can affect marijuana use (such as age, ethnicity, public versus private school, proportion of each state's population who were male or white).

The general rise in short - sightedness, including in a sizeable proportion of the working age population, has implications for both the health care system and the economy, conclude the authors of the study.

This proportion is likely to rise as the population ages, warn the researchers, who add that chronic pain is a major cause of disability and distress among those affected by it.

«We were very surprised to find that 35 percent of that population of patients had a genetic disease,» says Vilar - Sanchez, «although we hypothesized the proportion would be higher in this age group relative to the general population.»

The American Community Survey, for instance, estimates that Mexican - born men ages 40 to 44 represent more than 20 percent of California's population of men in that age range; Facebook puts the proportion at closer to 15 percent.

In a hypothetical group of 1,000 fracture patients, of which all had an incident fracture and a T - score lower than an age - matched population, and assuming FLS increases the proportion of patients identified with bone mineral testing to 50 %, 383 patients started treatment in the FLS.

Growing numbers of older people compared to younger ones in a population could create unsustainable burdens on social support and healthcare systems if a greater number of older people are dependent on a declining proportion of working - age people in the population.

Many countries including the UK and Japan are learning to live with populations with an increasing average age and higher proportions of their societies in the older age range.

The world's older population is growing at an unprecedented rate with 8.5 percent of the worldwide population — 617 million people — age 65 and older, a proportion estimated to reach 17 percent by 2050, according to the National Institute on Aging.

This endless daily assault on our bodies, including our precious DNA, has resulted in an overwhelming proportion of the population falling victim to serious degenerative disease, increasingly at EARLIER ages, and / or spending the final chapters of their lives totally dependent on pharmaceutical drugs to stay alive!

[2] Growth in the proportion of Hispanics in the school age population and the related decline in the proportion of whites underlie some of the decline in black - white exposure

According to the Center for Public Education's calculations, only 10 percent of the school - aged population is enrolled in private schools — a proportion that has remained fairly steady for 40 years.

They now stand at 23 % of the population aged 16 and older — nearly an identical proportion to the number of people who say they now own either a tablet or e-reading device.

Another perspective on population aging is the rate at which the proportion of those age 65 and older increases.

In the last decade in North America, there has been a 15 % increase in the number of cats over ten years of age and the proportion of the feline population aged fifteen years or older has increased from 5 % to 14 %.

Retirement villages will continue to make up an increasing proportion of UK housing stock due to our ageing population and so we expect to see a growth in the number of similar transactions in the future.

As near as I can tell, this law essentially requires cities to draw council districts in such a way that the number of districts where the minority citizens - of - voting - age population (CVAP) forms a majority of the total district CVAP is roughly proportional to the total minority population as a proportion of the total population of the city.

Almost half of Malmö's population is under the age of 35 and boasts the highest proportion of foreign - born residents in the country.

This represents a lower proportion of overweight in our sample when compared with age - matched peers in the Australian population [3].

The graph indicates that the Indigenous population is considerably younger than the non-Indigenous population with a significant proportion of younger Indigenous people and relatively few aged over 65.

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].

Age standardisation was performed using the direct method to control for the higher proportion of younger people in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

These proportions broadly match that which is expected of SDQ scores taken from any community population 4 and are comparable to those found in earlier Scottish research with a similarly aged, though smaller, sample drawn from Edinburgh and North Lanarkshire (Dunlop et al., 2008).

«The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has a younger age structure than the non-Indigenous population, with larger proportions of young people and smaller proportions of older people.

Furthermore, a large proportion of comparison participants qualified for a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis (combining subthreshold and full diagnoses)(Table 4), sometimes exceeding population rates.40 It seems more compelling that differences at the mean age of 41 years between probands and comparison participants reflect differential development, especially because findings are highly consistent with other, briefer follow - up studies.

With a significant proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in younger age groups, there is an additional challenge to programs and services being able to keep up with the future demands of a burgeoning population.

New data reveal that although children with disabilities represent a relatively small proportion of the population of children ages 3 to 5 attending preschool, they make up a disproportionately large share of suspensions and expulsions.

Several studies have addressed the validity of the parent - reported SDQ in school - aged samples, predominantly confirming the intended 5 - factor structure.5, 6 A 3 - factor configuration of externalizing (conduct problems and hyperactivity), internalizing (emotional and peer problems), and prosocial factors has also been proposed and suggested for use in epidemiologic studies and in low - risk populations.7, 8 The internal reliability of SDQ subscales has been predominantly examined by using Cronbach's α, a measure of the interrelatedness of items; however, α estimates are a lower bound for reliability and is often underestimated.9 A meta - analytic review reported weighted mean α coefficients extracted from 26 studies that showed generally modest reliabilities for parent reports (0.53 < α < 0.76).10 McDonald's ω, which estimates the proportion of a scale measuring a construct, typically yields higher reliability estimates but has rarely been used to assess reliability of the SDQ.

As the prevalence of a particular health condition (for example, arthritis) may be related to age, any increase in the proportion of people with that health condition over time may be due to real increases in prevalence or to changes in the age structure of the population over time or to both.

With a significant proportion of Indigenous peoples in younger age groups, there is an additional challenge to programs and services being able to keep up with the future demands of a burgeoning population.

Canada faces significant aging of its population as the proportion of seniors increases more rapidly than all other age groups.