Sentences with phrase «what proportion of the population»

By drawing on previous studies, Dietz estimated what proportion of the population could realistically be persuaded to change their behaviour using financial incentives, mass - media campaigns and so forth.

It's crystal clear that many predators ARE killed by toads — we often find them lying dead with a toad in their mouth or stomach — but the question is, what proportion of the population are killed?

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«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.

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.

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.

Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.

The center is part of an ambitious experiment Rozelle is leading that aims to find solutions to what he sees as a crisis of gargantuan proportions in China: the intellectual stunting of roughly one - third of the population.

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.

As many countries are not only in recession, but also increasing the proportion of elderly people in the population, the authors wanted to know what impact this might have on life expectancy.

However the analyst says what's true for the current crop of (still early adopter) tablet owners, won't be true as tablet ownership expands to take in a greater proportion of the population.

There is also a greater proportion of the population now that earns more than 2.5 X as much as the median - about 11 % of households in 2014 - which suggests perceptions of what is «a lot of money» will vary more now than it would have in 1970.

By the 1970s the population of dogs and cats had reached what was seen as crisis proportions — unsurprising given that cats and dogs were still typically free - roaming and unsterilized at that time.

In its report on dog attacks from 1982 to 2016, Merritt Clifton indicates what proportion each race represents in the total population of dogs.

The proportion of mixed - breed and subclassifications of purebred dogs for each of those conditions was determined to distinguish what specific backgrounds may contribute to the inherited conditions seen with higher prevalence in the purebred population or if in fact, purebreds as a whole were more at risk than the mixed - breed dogs.

What I took from both of these observations is that although diversity exists in the blogging world, I do not think the diversity is in the same proportion to the overall population.

By bench - marking our database against HESA university data we can confidently state exactly what proportion of the university population we actually have on our books.

So, what that means is that the military and veterans are purchasing homes at a rate that is twice that of their proportion within the general population.

What that means is that the military and veterans are purchasing homes at a rate that is roughly twice that of their proportion within the general population.