Sentences with phrase «small proportion of the population»

In Asia - Pacific, SES Networks signed and implemented an important new network with mu Space, delivering reliable and affordable connectivity for a significant increase in mobile and WiFi coverage in Thailand, where only a small proportion of the population currently has broadband access, as well as extending and substantially expanding business with Palau Telecom on the O3b fleet as part of its 4G implementation plans.

While children constitute a small proportion of the population with diabetes, omitting productivity loss associated with diabetes among children will tend to bias low the cost estimates.

Despite food allergies affecting only a small proportion of the population, risk management and mandatory product labelling for the key food allergens are critical food safety matters for businesses in the food industry.

Electorates were a relatively small proportion of the population in most constituencies, and in the case of so called «rotten boroughs», tiny.

Given that a small proportion of the population is homosexual, prospective studies require a large number of children.

In Canada and the United States, two - thirds of TB cases are in residents born abroad, although they make up a smaller proportion of the population (one - fifth in Canada and one - eighth in the US).

There are several hundred international postdocs on the NIH campus, but the meetings have drawn only a very small proportion of this population.

In fact most people use multiple media outlets and social media platforms, meaning that only a small proportion of the population, at most, is influenced by echo chambers.

I would estimate that a very small proportion of the population are in this position and so I probably won't run the exact numbers and devise specific strategies, but my conclusion would probably still remain largely the same.

Surveys show that a relatively small proportion of the population — around 20 percent — actually eats dog meat, and most Chinese citizens (69.5 percent of those surveyed in a 2016 poll commissioned by HSI / Avaaz) have never tried it.

Nevertheless, a small proportion of the population continues to deny the science.

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.

Not exact matches

Even though they might be creating jobs merely in the single or small double digits, they are the backbone of what makes America great, considering that a sizable proportion of the working population is employed by small businesses.

Catholic and mainline Protestant congregations, on the other hand, contain a smaller proportion of the church - going population than they did when baby boomers were in Sunday School.

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.

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

Financially, since there is such a large population of evangelical Christians in our society, even modest contributions from a small proportion of them can sustain fairly extensive broadcasting.

The good news is that the number of people that have made racist comments is a small proportion of the total population, and that many more are fighting back.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

What's more, the smaller the research population and the lower the R&D expenditure per capita researcher, the higher the proportion of female scientists, with the Baltic States, Bulgaria, and Romania having the most women in research.

Soon afterward, the European Commission (EC) issued a press release pointing out that European countries collectively produce proportionally more scientists than the United States, but that scientists constitute a much smaller proportion of the working population.

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.

The proportion of dwarf novae may be lower than found in catalogs, or they may have a much smaller duty cycle in general as proposed by some population synthesis models and recent observations in the field.

«We found that while hybridisation has not compromised the genetic distinctiveness of wolf populations, a large number of wild wolves in Eurasia carry a small proportion of gene variants derived from dogs, leading to the ambiguity of how we define genetically «pure wolves».

It is worth noting that the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists has recommended a smaller range of.3 to 3.0 mlU / L, which would make a much larger proportion of the U.S. population fall within the hypothyroid diagnosis.

For a large proportion of the population, however, the effect of higher - carbohydrate diets, particularly those enriched in refined carbohydrates, coupled with the rising incidence of overweight and obesity, creates a metabolic state that can favor a worsening of the atherogenic dyslipidemia that is characterized by elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol, and increased concentrations of small, dense LDL particles (6, 7).

It is probably the case that up to half the population will reduce their meat intake, occasionally or frequently, for dietary or ideological reasons with a proportion of those being vegetarian and a small percentage vegan.

«Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries,» wrote Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann in their study, «Teaching Math to the Talented.»

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.

Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

The continuous untargeted removal of a small proportion of the community cat population is neither an effective strategy for managing the population at large nor the best use of limited animal shelter budgets.

«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.»

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.

Adaptation to climate change that involves infrastructural works generally require large up - front overhead costs, which in the case of small islands can not be easily downscaled in proportion to the size of the population or territory.

While a large proportion of the region's population (in much of Viet Nam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos PDR, Thailand and peninsular Malaysia) lives on the main Asian landmass, many are also spread across thousands of islands — ranging in size from Indonesia's Java and Sumatra (home to more than 190 million people) to many small island communities.

And, those residing in rural areas comprise a small proportion of the total population.

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

The Canadian research (Currie, 2007) has found that between 45 - 48 % of the population has a legal problem at any given time with just a small proportion of these addressed by the courts (commonly estimated at around 10 %), or with formal legal representation.

A large proportion of India's population remains unbanked and they live on these smaller cash payments on a daily basis.

Although the level of awareness about Bitcoin among the general population has increased, only a small proportion of them hold significant amount of Bitcoins.

There is the perception that this is but one «small problem among many», affecting (it is assumed) a diminishing proportion of the Australian Indigenous 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.

The inquiry noted that Indigenous people make up a high proportion of the population in regional and remote districts with around 1,200 discrete Indig enous communities of which over 1,000 were very small and very isolated communities.61 Limited commercial opportunities and viable labour markets in these communities means that they often lack some of the most basic services, including access to banking and financial services and institutions.

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.

We used complete case analysis because the proportion of missing values in the study population was small (5 % or less) for each regression variable.

The study sample was found to be representative of the general population of the United Kingdom at the start of data collection, except for a smaller proportion of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater number of owner - occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).