Recent research by GreenPool Commodity Specialists for the Australian Sugar Refiners, using Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS "extended series") methodology, has confirmed that apparent consumption of sugar has decreased in Australia over the past few decades. It is worth noting that the ABS is ...
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (2022) reports that nearly 40% of Australians aged 16 to 24 have a mental health condition, and almost 80% (4 out of 5 children) experienced some form of bullying during their time at school. Despite legal requirements for schools to work toward bully-...
Results Study population Descriptive statistics for the study cohort in relation to sitting time are presented in Table 1. Of the 222 497 participants, 52.4% were women, 62.0% were overweight or obese, 86.7% reported good to excellent health, 25.2% were sitting at least 8 h/d, and 75.0% ...
Inferential statistics for between-group comparisons were performed using a one-way ANOVA, chi-square test or Fishers Exact as appropriate. Correlations between categorical and continuous variables were analysed using Spearman’s rank order correlation, and correlations between two continuous variables ...
The countries where people died from smallpox 200 years ago was about 148, today smallpox is effectively eliminated, no country has reported outbreaks of smallpox since the mid 1970s. Deaths from disasters is an interesting statistics since when a disaster strikes, such as the floods in Spain...
Similarly, a case-control study from a Dutch urban memory clinic (case, n = 415, control, n = 428) showed that older ethnic minority patients with dementia migrating from 47 countries had significantly more depression, change in appetite, agitation/aggression, disinhibition, and aberrant motor ...
Mark Nemtsas and Kathryn Harris own and run ‘The Purple Penny’ coin shop in Adelaide and are passionate about error coins. References Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, 1954, 1 January 1954, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1301.01954?OpenDocument [Acc...
Fig. 2: Demographic histories of both the Ninu and Yallara and inbreeding and heterozygosity statistics from the Ninu resequenced genomes. a, Top: surface temperature (°C) based on a five-point running mean of δ18O data125. Bottom: effective population size through time estimated from Ninu ...
Big data, official statistics and some initiatives by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Int Stat Rev. 2015;83(3):436–48. Article Google Scholar Ettelt S, Nolte E, Mays N, Thomson S, McKee M, World Health Organization. Health Care Outside Hospital: Accessing generalist and specialist ...