Sentences with phrase «proportion of the adult»

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 proportion of adults who are either working or looking for work fell last month to 62.7 percent, slightly lower than a year ago.

The proportion of adults in their prime working years — defined as ages 25 to 54 — who are either working or looking for jobs reached the highest level in nearly seven years in February, before declining slightly last month.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

The proportion of the adult population that was married also fell steadily, while the divorce rate began a seemingly inexorable rise; by 1910 (and thanks largely to Nevada), the United States was the divorce capital of the world.

Last week official statistics revealed the last 15 years has seen the proportion of adults who are obese rise from one - sixth to one - quarter.

The proportion of adult New Yorkers who smoke cigarettes has hit an all - time low of 14 percent, city officials announced.

From 2010 to 2016, the proportion of adult mice with white fur patches more than doubled, the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science.

Between 2012 and 2015, the proportion of adult Americans who owned a smartphone, a computer, and a tablet doubled to 36 %

Findings from this UK cohort are confirmed by evidence for adult - onset ADHD world - wide: a study from Brazil will be published by JAMA Psychiatry alongside this research, which also identified a large proportion of adults with ADHD as not having the disorder in childhood.

«Our findings may reflect a temporal change in smoking patterns in which the proportion of adults with a 30 pack - year smoking history and having quit within 15 years declined,» the authors write.

«These changes have occurred in the context of substantial increases in the proportion of adults reporting no leisure - time physical activity, but in the absence of any significant population - level changes in average daily caloric intake,» explains lead investigator Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Stanford University School of Medicine.

Ours is a national - level study that estimates the proportion of adult drinkers who use a wide range of prescription medications that can interact with alcohol to cause numerous harms ranging from nausea, headaches, and loss of coordination to internal bleeding, heart problems, and difficulties in breathing.»

«Since a large proportion of all adults have a «true» systolic blood pressure near the threshold of 130 mm Hg, the inherent variability of blood pressure increases the potential that hypertension will be diagnosed.»

The proportion of adults 65 years or older with a high school diploma increased from 55 % in 1990 to 80 % in 2010, while the proportion with a college degree increased from 12 % to 23 %.12 More years of formal education is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, likely through multiple causal pathways, including a direct effect on brain development and function (ie, the building of «cognitive reserve»), health behaviors, as well as the general health advantages of having more wealth and opportunities.13 - 15

The proportions of adults with either Medicaid or individual private insurance both declined during this period.

After all, herpes is just a disease like any other and it affects a proportion of the adult people in Australia!

The end result of widespread low - quality high - school education in the U.S. compared to the secondary education in equally economically advanced countries is that a greater proportion of adults in the United States are woefully underprepared for today's jobs.

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.

According to the Atlanta - based board, the proportion of adults between the ages of 25 and 64 with a two - or four - year college degree currently ranges from 26 percent to 44 percent among the 16 SREB...

Moreover, the U. S. leads the nine nations in years of schooling completed among adults, as well as in the proportion of adults with a high school diploma and in the proportion with a bachelor's degree.

The United States has remained similarly stagnant in the attainment of higher education degrees; the U.S. is now «14th out of 26 industrialized nations in the proportion of adults with college degrees.

Measures included years of schooling completed and the proportion of adults with high - school diplomas and bachelor's degrees.

Of the nine nations, the United States remains the wealthiest with the most highly educated workforce, based on the number of years of school completed, and the proportion of adults with high school diplomas and bachelor's degrees.

When it comes to eBooks, the demographic difference between young and old readers is just as stark: according to a new study on digitalbookworld.com, more than half of U.S. kids are reading eBooks, which is more than double the proportion of adults who are e-reading.

The increased proportion of adults who do not pay their bills on time is driven largely by women between the ages of 18 and 34.

Start by mixing in just a little adult dog food into the puppy food, and increase the proportion of adult food a bit more every day.

The proportion of adults who believe climate change is «definitely» a reality dropped by 30 % over the last year, from 44 % to 31 %, in the latest survey by Ipsos Mori.

«The paper also focuses much attention on the potential for increases in polar bear attacks on humans due to sea ice loss (blamed on global warming) but ignores totally the increased risk stemming from the larger proportion of adult males that now exist in protected populations.»

However, a lower proportion of adults with disabilities, aged 15 to 64 years, voted in municipal, provincial and federal elections, compared to adults without disabilities.

Latest statistics from the Department for Transport show that the proportion of adults who cycle at least once a month has fallen to 14.7 per cent last year.

Given the high proportion of adult Americans with criminal records (the National Employment Law Project estimates 1 in four adults has a record of some kind), it is likely your background screening will reveal a criminal history for many of your own applicants.

Given the high proportion of adult Americans with criminal records (the National Employment Law Project estimates 1 in four adults has a record of some kind), it is likely... Read more»

The ABS said the proportion of adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who smoke dropped significantly from 55 per cent to 45 per cent, a fall of 22 per cent, over 20 years to 2014 — 15.

The labor force participation rate is a measure that describes the proportion of adults who are either currently employed or actively looking for work.

Of particular concern were the incarceration rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples which increased as did the proportion of adults reporting psychological distress and intentional self - harm.

Second, to help us decide when and how to apply the correction factor, we used state - level data from the Kaiser Family Foundation's Medicaid Managed Care Market Tracker on whether states reported having contracts with Medicaid managed care organizations as of September 2015.17 In states with managed care, we estimated the capitation rate by averaging two figures: Kaiser's reported average of the proportion of adult enrollees in traditional Medicaid who were in capitated managed care plans (excluding «aged and disabled» adults), and the proportion of adults who qualified for coverage under the ACA's Medicaid expansion enrolled in capitated managed care plans, both as of July 1, 2016.18 This was the best available data with which to approximate the proportion of female Medicaid enrollees of reproductive age in capitated managed care plans in each state for FY 2015.

Relevant goals include: increasing abstinence from alcohol before and during pregnancy; reducing the occurrence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS); reducing the proportion of adults engaging in binge drinking; and reducing the proportion of adults who drink excessively.

Not exact matches

Lower - income adults obtained a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from stores than did higher - income adults.

Older adults (aged ≥ 51 y) obtained a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from stores than did younger adults.

Lower - income (IPR < 1.0) adults consumed significantly more added sugars and derived a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from grocery stores than did higher - income adults (IPR ≥ 4).

Only four countries - Czech Republic (nine - per - cent), Sweden (18 - per - cent), Estonia (19 - per - cent) and the Netherlands (19 - percent)- were found to have fewer Christians, as a proportion of the wider young adult population.

The proportion of young adults professing a Christian faith in the UK is among the lowest in Europe, a new study has found.

The economic liability of having a large proportion of 4.25 million adult males out of fully productive relationship with the community is gigantic.

Fife writes that an «average size adult» would need 3 1/2 Tbsp oil or 10 oz coconut milk, or 7 oz fresh coconut to get the same proportion of MCFAs as a nursing baby.

Depending on what study you read, the proportion of US adults identifying as vegan has grown to incredible heights — some say up to 500 % in the USA!

As a proportion of total sugars, sugars that were contributed by soft drinks also declined 15 % in adult men and 13 % in adult women (Table 1).

As a proportion of total energy intake, added sugars fell 10 % in adult men (from 10 % to 9 % of energy) but remained essentially the same in adult women (~ 9 %)(Table 1).

Between 1995 and 2011 — 2012, the proportion of energy from SSBs (including 100 % juice) declined 10 % in adult men and 20 % in women.

The proportion of energy consumed as SSBs, including juice, also declined 15 % in adults and 40 % in children and youth.