Sentences with phrase «proportions of the population who»

«Those who had led the rebellion had under - estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do,» she remembers.

In the UK the phrase «middle class» refers to a large proportion of the population who, broadly speaking, earn more money than they need to pay rent and bills, clothe themselves, eat food etc..

«Considering the high proportion of the population who have higher than normal blood pressure, successful treatment of this condition could prevent many strokes and make a major difference in public health.»

Not exact matches

But there are three other factors as well: There's «profile,» which is the proportion of the population that is young and can work, «utilization,» the percentage of those who are able to work who are actually working, and «intensity,» which measures how hard we work when we have a job.

Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population - the intelligent ones or the fools?

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

According to a survey published in September 2010 by the Office for National Statistics, the proportion of the British population who self - identify (to use the questionable modern phrase) as homosexual is around 1 \ %.

Yet two surveys of community residents in the three - county archdiocese area (one in 1972 and one in 1996) reveal a very stable Roman Catholic population and a stable proportion of Catholics who say they attended church.

I can understand how this kind of story sells papers by the million and I understand that this is how the The Sun and The News of the World and the Daily Mirror operate, hell I even understand that to a very large extent they do so because that is what a large proportion of the population wants to read, sick as it might sound there are people who really get off on this stuff.

If a reduction in type 2 diabetes risk of 15 % (based on the conservative confidence limit) is associated with breastfeeding in Westernized populations where the prevalence of diabetes is ≈ 6 % and the proportion infants who are bottle - fed is at least one - third, the proportion of diabetes in the population that could be attributed to breastfeeding would be 5 % (51).

Anyone who knows the Conservative Party knows that for decades it has included a proportion of homosexual members that probably exceeds the proportion of homosexuals in the population.

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.

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».

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).

As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.

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.

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

It is concerning that the proportion of teachers who are Asian American still does not match the population of Asian American students in this country today, even with this problem identified two decades ago.

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.

These resources have been obtained with the help of slaves who eventually made up the largest proportion of the population.

«We accompany three populations within the world of migration: those who have been victims of serious crime like torture, kidnapping, and imprisonment; solicitors of asylum, who we accompany in a smaller proportion but also help; and defenders of migrants» human rights, who've been threatened, displaced, and even killed.»

Wealthy local buyers have emerged, as have collectors from China and India, suddenly curious about artists from their respective diasporas, who together make up a large proportion of Malaysia's population.

In those countries, large proportions of the population are children or teenagers, who could contribute either to a large workforce and economic gains or — in the absence of education and jobs — to instability and conflict.

prevalence the proportion of persons within a population who are currently affected by a particular disease

As for land, space isn't so much of a problem in a state where the population is barely over 800,000 (yes that's for the whole state) but it's mostly geared for farming so finding anyone who is willing to sell just a small proportion can be very diffcult.

The aforementioned 15 U.S.C. § 1129 from the other answer indeed looks somewhat applicable, but I highly doubt that anyone would agree that a random myfirstname individual, one who is not expressly famous or known by any significant proportion of the population under such name, is somehow intrinsically owned a myfirstname.com domain name, just because they're the first one to file a lawsuit against the present owner that's offering it on sale.

Specifically, the percentage of African - American children who enter the system and remain in out - of - home care is greater than their proportion of the country's population (Anderson, 1997).

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The proportion of these children who were in poor general health (9 %) was above the proportion in the whole population, but the difference was not statistically significant.

For example, the proportion of people in Australia who are of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander origin would be calculated by dividing the number of persons identified as Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander by the total population, and expressing the result as a percentage.

Among Indigenous Areas with large Indigenous populations, Moree Plains (A) had the highest proportion of residents who were Indigenous (2,702 Indigenous people, 19 %)(tables 6 - 42).

A large number of individuals with moderately increased risk levels contribute more cases than a small number with extreme risk levels.41 Parenting programmes that target high - risk populations therefore miss a substantial number of families who develop the problem even though they are not currently in the elevated risk group.3, 9,11 The potential impact of such programmes at the population level is therefore minimal as only a small proportion of families in the general population participate in evidence - based programmes.10, 11 As Rose emphasized more than a decade ago, strategies that focus on high - risk individuals will deal only with the margin of the problem and will not have impact on the general population.

As a proportion of total State / Territory populations, the distribution of people who identified as Torres Strait Islander has remained stable in all of the States / Territories except for the Northern Territory, where the proportion has increased from 1.0 % to 1.1 %.