Sentences with phrase «rates by ethnicity»

Because a small proportion of the sample identified as being both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, prevalence rates by ethnicity were calculated in two ways.

Texas Dropout Rates by Ethnicity.

It includes the district's graduation, dropout, suspension, and expulsion rates by ethnicity, percentage of students spending 80 percent or more of the day inside a general education classroom, percent of pre-school students who demonstrate improvement in social - emotional skills, and percent of parents that report positive school involvement.

Let us know too if you have statistics on dropout rates by ethnicity.

The State Education Department on Tuesday would not release statistics showing passing rates by ethnicity, but officials have acknowledged that minority teaching candidates have not done as well as white candidates on the new test.

«However, our demonstration of differences in fracture rates by ethnicity, socioeconomic status and location will clearly be helpful in targeting health resources to those at greatest risk.

«But the latest figures, which for the first time break down success rates by both ethnicity and grades for some of Oxford's most competitive subjects, cast significant doubt on these long - running explanations.»

Breastfeeding and supplementation rates by ethnicity / race: National Immunization Survey data (2,4).

Not exact matches

After finding a suitable dataset (High School graduation rates), I wanted to understand how attainment changes not just by ethnicity but also across the country.

Although the overall rate of breastfeeding initiation (73.4 percent) was close to the target, there were major differences by race / ethnicity.

Towne and colleagues also found that race and ethnicity, education level and income affected prevalence rates: People with lower income or lower educational levels had a higher prevalence of diabetes, and the diabetes rates were highest among American Indians or Alaska Natives, followed by African Americans and Hispanics.

Men are more likely than women to develop melanoma; the death rate varies by race and ethnicity and is highest among white people.

African American service members had higher incidence rates of hypertension compared to service members of other races and ethnicities despite equitable access to health care within the military health system, according to a new analysis by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC).

Reporting only aggregated adherence rates could create an incentive to avoid groups with worse outcomes rather than undertaking interventions to improve their care.41 Some health plans or clinicians may avoid enrolling minority patients, for whom performance rates are typically lower.42, 43 Stratifying performance rates by race, ethnicity, or other demographic characteristics may mitigate such undesired effects by not penalizing organizations that disproportionately treat minority patients.

Analyses by the National Center for Health Statistics, for example, indicate that marriages between spouses of the same race or ethnicity have a lower divorce rate after 10 years than interracial or interethnic couples (31 percent versus 41 percent).

In addition, the LAUSD average 59 percent four - year graduation rate was found to range widely by individual high school and by ethnicity, even when comparing students of similar eighth - grade English performance.

Rates vary considerably by race, ethnicity, and social class, and large numbers of girls as well as boys leave school before earning a high school diploma (see Figure 3).

[1] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through Public high school 4 — year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race / ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2014 — 15.

When we adjusted the gains made by students in each school to take into account a wide variety of individual and peer - group background characteristics, such as ethnicity, English language - learner status, family income, and student mobility rates, the yardstick's performance actually worsened.

Using statewide longitudinal data, the study analyzes dual - credit participation rates by race / ethnicity, gender and math and reading achievement on state tests and examines differences in outcomes for dual - credit participants and nonparticipants.

Community colleges recently launched a score card system so that students and others can obtain graduation rates and other information from all 112 campuses, broken down by ethnicity and other factors.

For most of the past decade and a half, annual rates of teacher turnover differed little by race or ethnicity.

Despite these gains, the rate of progress has varied among these racial / ethnic groups and differences by race / ethnicity persist in terms of increases in attainment and progress on key indicators of educational performance.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Table 3 and Table 4 show the prevalence rates of disorders for males and females by race / ethnicity.

There were no significant differences in refusal rates by sex, race / ethnicity, or age.

Table 4 compares rates by race / ethnicity for females.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute released last week, U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity, found that pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all teens over the past two decades, and that these declines have been primarily driven by improved use of contraception, particularly increases in the use of highly effective methods and dual use of contraception and condoms.

Similarly, while Alabama often scores well below the national average on the overall Kids Count rankings and has a higher rate of overall poverty, its rankings rise when examined by different races and ethnicities — and the disparities (differences in overall scores for white non-Hispanic children and African - American non-Hispanic children or Hispanic children) are much smaller than many northern states.

Among general adult populations, prevalence rates vary by sex, age, race / ethnicity, education, marital status, geographic location, and employment status.