Sentences with phrase «proportion of younger people»

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.

Yet a high proportion of the young people who hear the speeches pay no heed and by the time they are middle - aged they are absolutely mummified» (Gardner, Self - Renewal) Mummified mid-years marriages both reflect and increase inner mummification.

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.

And in case you were beginning to think otherwise, I can let you know that almost exactly the same proportion of young people achieve higher education in the Czech Republic as in the UK.

And because a higher proportion of young people vote Democratic than the general population, the net effect of Facebook's GOTV effort would have been to help the Dems.

It found that in London and the South East two times the proportion of young people voted in recent national elections than the North East.

With an ever growing proportion of young people having no religion, this inclusion is becoming ever more important, but instead non-religious worldviews are increasingly being shut out by Government.

Huge proportions of young people are also missing from the electoral register.

The final bit of evidence was that seats that contained a larger proportion of young people did see their turnout rise more at the election... though as Chris Prosser and the rest of the BES team ably explain in their paper, this is not necessarily the strong evidence you might think: seats with more young people tend to be urban and more diverse, so it's equally possible that urban areas in general saw a larger increase in turnout.

Yet those in power feared there would be a continued population expansion due to a high proportion of young people.

«What this study shows, as others have done, is that a significant proportion of young people are trying electronic cigarettes, including non-smokers.

The proportion of young people entering higher education has increased to 21.7 % - the highest level recorded in recent years, and a 1 % increase from last year despite a fall in the population of Scottish 18 - year - olds.

The Sutton Trust is urging the Government to reform the student funding system after poll shows that the proportion of young people who think they are likely to go into Higher Education has fallen

According to figures published by the Department for Education (DfE), the proportion of young people in education and training across England has risen.

«It is no surprise that there has been a fall in the proportion of young people hoping to go into Higher Education.

A proportion of young people who drink sugary drinks reported eating no food at lunchtime at all, and of the young people who reported consuming sugary drinks at lunchtime, 73.7 per cent reported that the drink they consumed was a regular soft drink.

A large proportion of young people believe that schools and colleges are failing to adequately prepare them for the world of work, according to new research.

«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.»

Keep in mind that these are the students who made it to twelfth grade; since about 20 percent of American students drop out, the proportion of all young people in a cohort of eighteen - year - olds who make it to the college - ready level in either subject is more like one in three.

The proportion of young people saying that they have received private tuition has remained high over the last year, with Londoners most likely to have had extra teaching, according to a new Sutton Trust survey.

T levels will build on the success of the government's ambitious reforms that have already contributed to the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training being at a record low.

One in five young people in Arizona has not completed high school, and a similarly large proportion of young people in the state are disconnected from education and employment.

In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama noted that «America has fallen to ninth in the proportion of young people with college degrees» and that «as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.»

A series of major reports over the past few years suggests that improving mental health services for young people would dramatically lift national productivity as well as reduce the proportion of young people requiring treatment.

Of concern was that only a small proportion of those young people with depression had received professional help for their problems (Sawyer et al., 2000).

The incremental cost - effectiveness of group therapy was # 2020 per 1 % increase in the proportion of young people not self - harming.

«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.

People will certainly continue living in conventional houses and apartments, but a significant proportion of young people may share the desire to live in self - driving mobile homes temporarily due to their mobility and affordability.

Not exact matches

It is quite possible that the «Have used» figures for young people contain a higher proportion of people who believed it was wrong back then or believe it is wrong now.

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

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

98 % of young people are not confirmed, 88 % of babies are not baptised, 66 % of funerals (and a slightly higher proportion of marriages) are not Anglican.

Young people watched the election coverage in particularly large numbers, with a high proportion of young viewers undecided before seeing the QT speYoung people watched the election coverage in particularly large numbers, with a high proportion of young viewers undecided before seeing the QT speyoung viewers undecided before seeing the QT special.

(BBC) and «Ministers have expressed «disappointment» at statistics showing fewer young people from poor backgrounds are going to university... The data for 2004/05 showed that while the total number of students from all groups rose, the proportion from poorer backgrounds fell from 28.6 to 28.2 per cent.»

Young people also tend to be in lower paid, more insecure work, and they spend a higher proportion of their income on travel.

We have introduced an indicator on bullying which underpins the Child Safety public service agreement (PSA 13, NI69), and made clear that we expect the proportion of children and young people who experience bullying to go down over the Spending Review period.»

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

People from 9 to 50 years old managed, as a rule, to get almost as much vitamin D as the young children, although a far higher proportion of their vitamin - D came from supplements.

Similarly, thinner and younger persons have larger proportions of brown fat.

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.

In reality, when people say that they didn't like the «cartoony» art style of Wind Waker, they usually mean they didn't like the cell shaded approach, the younger character designs, the character proportions, and the bright color palette.

This is why, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a large proportion of our support focuses on initiatives that promote skills, knowledge and aspiration to facilitate young people's transition from education into employment.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

In 2015 chains entered fewer young people to the EBacc than in 2014, but a greater proportion of those pupils entered succeeded in achieving the EBacc

The proportion of poorer young people not in education, employment or training after the age of 16, is five times that of their wealthier classmates according to the charity's analysis of official figures.

In the United States, new teachers only make an average of about $ 36,000, and the average salary for all teachers is just over $ 58,000 — which, in today's dollars, is lower than the average salary during the 1989 - 1990 school year.63 Teachers make 60 percent of what similarly educated professionals earn, much lower than the proportion in other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.64 Partly as a result of low teacher pay, young people are avoiding the teaching profession, excellent teachers are staying away from high - need schools, the teaching profession is not as diverse as it needs to be, and far too many great educators leave the profession altogether.65

«We know that a high proportion of children and young people enjoy reading using technology, and read on devices frequently in and out of school.»

The fact remains that, since two thirds of young people now play videogames, it will always be possible to link our hobby to the tiny proportion of gamers who commit acts of violence.

When looked at with a lens taking in the full flow of history, of course, people's lives are getting better, the proportion of the human population dying young or slaughtered or savaged has steadily dropped.

Democrats have also increasingly come to depend upon young people, women, and minorities, who make up a growing proportion of eligible voters.