Sentences with phrase «white ethnic population»

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Differences in the prevalence of supine positioning and other sleep - environment conditions among racial and ethnic populations might contribute to these disparities.17 The prevalence of supine positioning in 2010 among white infants was 75 %, compared with 53 % among black infants (Fig 5).

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

The seat El - Yateem seeks — covering Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Bath Beach — has long been a stronghold of conservative - leaning white ethnic Catholics, but it is now home also to a large and growing population of Arabs, Asians and Eastern Europeans.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.

Kye's study is one of the first to look at white Americans» response to the influx of suburban ethnic populations.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

The students in grades 2 through 6 in the district are predominantly white (73 percent), with a sizable ethnic minority (Latino students compose 21 percent of the elementary population); 48 percent of them receive a free or reduced - price lunch.

Capital: Managua Area: 130 370 km ², Ethnic groups: Mestizos (mixed Amerindian and white) 69 %, white 17 %, black 9 %, Amerindian 5 % Languages: the official language of Nicaragua is Spanish, spoken by 90 % of the population.

Our data reconfirm that vigorous activity among ethnic minority children is lower than in non-Hispanic white children.17, 18 Such information must be considered when developing physical education curricula and community - based intervention strategies aimed at increasing physical activity among different target populations.

The city of Leicester has one of the highest concentrations of this population (total population 329 836: Indian 93 000, Pakistani 8000, Bangladeshi 3600), which contrasts with the surrounding county (total population 650 489: Indian 54 000, Pakistani 2100, Bangladeshi 2300).15 We define «British South Asian (BSA)» as a person whose ancestry originates in the Indian subcontinent, and who identifies with, or is identified with, their host country.16 A previous pilot study showed a significantly higher incidence in symptoms of depression among BSA patients in Leicester and the local county compared with British White (BW) patients via the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS - D) ≥ 10 (BSA 20.7 %; BW 10.4 % p = 0.001).17 Depressive symptoms were associated with potentially maladaptive coping strategies among both ethnic groups but were employed statistically significantly more frequently by BSA patients.

Like juvenile detainees nationwide, approximately 90 % of the CCJTDC detainees are males, and most are racial / ethnic minorities.3 The CCJTDC population is 77.9 % African American, 5.6 % non-Hispanic white, 16.0 % Hispanic, and 0.5 % other racial or ethnic groups.

The ethnic composition of the population is 58 % white, 28 % black, 6 % Hispanic, and 5 % Asian.

First, WLS respondents represent the non-Hispanic White population born around 1939 who graduated from a Wisconsin high school in 1957 (Sewell et al., 2004) and exclude individuals without a high school education, race / ethnic minorities, and immigrants.

Some parenting differences have been identified in specific racial / ethnic groups; for example, in a study of a large diverse population, Hispanic parents were significantly higher on adolescent reports of parental monitoring than White parents, and African American parents were lower than White parents on adolescent reports of warmth (Chao & Kanatsu, 2008).