Sentences with phrase «urban areas surveyed»

Honolulu has the most expensive groceries of all 269 urban areas surveyed for the Cost of Living Index.

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But another survey, taken of churches in the Washington, D.C., area for the Urban Institute, estimated that each congregation spends only $ 15,000 per year on community services and programs.

In terms of school breakfast, every year we release a teacher's report in which we survey 750 K - 8 teachers from around the country in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

Thanks to BFHI and some regulation of the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, 48 per cent of infants in urban areas and 68 per cent in rural areas are now exclusively breastfed for four months, a 1994 survey found.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).

The data from this survey enable us to look at teachers» pay in both urban and rural areas.

They surveyed two - parent families from diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds in urban and rural areas.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

This fact was supported in the Software & Information Industry Association survey, which found that less than one - third of educators — 25 percent of educators in urban areas and 33 percent of educators in rural areas — believe that there is adequate bandwidth for students to have access to digital instructional materials.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

1983 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California: A Sense of Individualism, Part II, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA Sight / Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Directions on Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades: 1940s — 1960, Nelson and Union Memorial Galleries, University of California, Davis, CA

As a keen survey of history, her photographs of St. Louis, Missouri, address the contrast between the city's aspirations for urban development once envisioned in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the realization of urban sprawl that has since displaced the downtown area.

To determine these differences it is important to survey areas where the weather stations, the urban one in particular, are not located near a geophysical boundary where surface temperatures in one direction are significantly different from those in other directions.

And one site a handfull of miles north at the university (you wont find this stuff in Jones or Hansen) The university looks a bit urban (site survey will tell) And there are other sites in the area that are clearly Rural, but for now, I tossed The unversity data in the hopper.

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.

«Adolescents and young adults (15 - 19 years) and adults aged 40 years and older have the highest bicycle death rates.3 Children (5 - 14 years), adolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household Travel Surveys.

The average premiums are calculated after surveying around 2,400 cars and by taking the insurance rates from 6 large insurers, and from 10 zip codes per state representing the rural and the urban areas.

Survey respondents who live in urban areas are more likely to count on family when planning how to fund a down payment for their upcoming home purchase.

A new NAR survey reveals that a majority of consumers looking to buy in the next six months want a single - family home outside of an urban area.

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

The typical driving distance traveled by independent appraisers, according to a U.S. survey of that country's largest appraisal management companies (AMCs), averages 13 miles in urban and suburban areas, says the Title Appraisal Vendor Management Association (TAVMA).

Based on national mortgage underwriting standards and incorporating the latest income distribution data from the American Community Survey and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the report contains detailed results for more than 300 metro areas.