Community-level covariates included total population of students in the community and the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch. Analysis sample and missing data procedures Of the 4407 students in the longitudinal panel, 26.5% were recruited at wave 2 (in grade 6...
Another way to address this issue would be to provide access to this information at an earlier age, as shown in a parliamentary enquiry in Victoria, Australia in which career management was recommended for incorporation into primary school curriculum[81]. All three latent classes preferred ...
Schools and FE colleges were identified by reference to the proportion of young people in each school in receipt of government financial support for school meals [43]. Rates of eligibility for free school meals are reported as percentage ranges to protect confidentiality (Table1). Although free sc...
Data Extraction Extracted data included prevalence and sample size, as well as potential moderators, including the following: (1) age, examined continuously as a mean; (2) sex, examined as the percentage of boys in the sample; (3) earliest year of data collection; (4) method of sexting (...
from such a tax should be allocated explicitly for investment in building affordable housing. Countries in which this land-value-tax approach has been adopted include Australia, Canada, Denmark, Singapore, and the U.S., and the impact has been significant. For example, the city of Harrisburg,...
Alcohol-Related Social Disorder and Rural Youth: Part 2--Perpetrators; Australian Institute of Criminology: Canberra, Australia, 2000.Williams, Paul, `Alcohol-related Social Disorder and Rural Youth: Part 2- Perpetrators', Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice, no 149, Australian ...
Life expectancy at birth ranged from 53.1 years in Nigeria to 84.2 years in Hong Kong. Hong Kong also had the highest urban population percentage (100%) and the highest population density (6987 people/km2 of land area). The lowest Gini index (least income inequality) was observed in ...
certed effort over the past two decades to increase access to education.5 Spending on education as a percentage of GDP has New Skills for New Markets in Brazil risen in most countries.6 Most are close to achieving universal primary education, and on average, young people now com- plete ...
Urdal [73] (p. 96) goes as far as to specify that for “each percentage-point increase of youth in the adult population, the risk of conflict increases by more than 4 percent.” Given such catchy formulas, youth bulge theory has become a highly influential approach in policy circles, ...
percentage of young people who received each type of referral that NRS frontline staff make to crisis intervention contacts. One fifth (21%) of the young people who reached out to the NRS were homeless, one third (33%) were contemplating running, and fewer than half (46%) were in crisis...