Sentences with phrase «than one's urban counterparts»

With high test scores and graduation rates to flash around, suburban school officials have had an easier time than their urban counterparts arguing that charters are an unnecessary drain on their budgets.

However, rural cancer patients were 66 percent more likely to retire early as a result of their diagnosis than their urban counterparts.

Notably, respondents living in rural or suburban communities feel safer than their urban counterparts, and are more likely to trust their neighbors, as well.

But the biggest finding was that those who lived closer to the city center or the main highway had better access to water deliveries than those in more remote areas — because of distance and transportation issues — but still less than their urban counterparts.

Because rural Americans tend to spend considerably more time outdoors than their urban counterparts do, they traditionally have had higher sun exposure and vitamin D blood concentrations.

Prime - age (25 - 54) workers in rural areas are also poorer than their urban counterparts, and a disproportionately high percentage of rural workers are affected by changes in technology and environment regulations.

In fact, those living in remote areas are at greater risk of food insecurity than their urban counterparts as, on average, food is up to 50 per cent more expensive in remote communities,» he stated.

«Rural ranchers face less access to water during drought than urban counterparts.»

Half of Mississippi's rural providers operate at a loss, for example, according to the report, which was presented last week at the annual National Rural Health Association (NRHA) conference in Washington, D.C. Rural communities, however, are in desperate need of care: They tend to be poorer, older and less healthy than their urban counterparts.

One analysis she conducted found that rural areas — at least in the state she studied, Wisconsin — were less likely to offer child care services than their urban counterparts.

Another finding is that cancer survivors in rural areas were 33 percent less likely to go on paid disability while receiving cancer treatment than their urban counterparts of similar age, education and cancer stage.

People living in rural areas are at no greater risk of dying from heart disease than their urban counterparts, according to a new study by researchers at Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).

African American, Hispanic, and white women are less likely than their urban counterparts to have mammograms (7).

In fact, a recent study conducted by the Journal of Homosexuality found rural gays and lesbians tend to be happier than their urban counterparts, so this must account for something!

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

Finally, it may be that pay gaps between urban and suburban teachers in part reflect an hours gap, with suburban (and rural) teachers putting in longer workdays than their urban counterparts.

And in rural counties, which often have far worse Internet access than their urban counterparts, schools have been developing ways to improve bandwidth as well as access to devices including iPads and Chromebooks.

Conversely, poor salary was the leading factor for dissatisfaction in low - poverty suburban schools (61.1 percent) with administrative support (30.1) and faculty influence (14.3) proving less significant for suburban teachers than their urban counterparts.

Researchers are finding that suburban dwellers are significantly fatter than their urban counterparts, primarily because they drive everywhere, even to the fitness club.

«Census data shows that rural communities have lower incomes than their urban counterparts, and a disproportionate number of residents meet the definition of working poor.

Ontarians living in the 905 area code are more willing to reduce vacation spending (76 per cent) than their urban counterparts living in the 416 area code (61 per cent).

In Edmonton, the survey shows that bungalows and condominiums in the suburban area of Sherwood Park appreciated more than their urban counterpart.

The CUPW claims that, on average, rural postal workers earn 30 % less than their urban counterparts; the majority of rural carriers are women.

Rural districts also tended to have more staff per pupil, in general, than their urban counterparts.