• The proportion of youth between 15 and 24 years old not in the labor force (and thus most likely studying) has actually risen from 43% in 2004 to 47% in 2013, according to the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics, better known as IBGE.

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  • For the least educated group surveyed, a 23 percentage point gap existed between the proportion of respondents who said they would prefer self-employment and the fraction that thought self-employment within five years was possible.

    FORBES: Enabling Self-Employment for Those Who Want It

  • The party will split 67 delegates between the candidates in proportion to the final caucus results.

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  • They eventually determined that there was a relationship between the proportion of negative tweets like "Bruno movie is probably the worst I ever seen" and the decline in revenue from Friday to Saturday.

    WSJ: Twitter Goes to the Movies

  • There continues to be a big difference between the proportion of Scots who would like the Scottish government to have most influence over how Scotland is run (63%) and the proportion who believe it actually does (34%).

    BBC: Alex Salmond

  • Millennials are experiencing record-high rates of early-onset obesity-related diseases, and the proportion of young adults between 18 and 29 who are obese has more than tripled in the past forty years, from 8 percent in 1971-1974 to 24 percent in 2005-2006.

    FORBES: Greatist: Or How Social Networks Are The Answer To America's Obesity Epidemic

  • He said health spending should double as a proportion of GDP between 2003 and 2013 and that by the mid-2020s the cost, as a proportion of GDP, would vary between 12.5% and 10.6%.

    BBC: Health Bill: Where's the strategic argument?

  • One of the most striking differences between black families and others is the proportion of children born out of wedlock.

    ECONOMIST: Black Britain

  • It is impossible to be exact, but suppose that the same proportion of men aged between 25 and 50 was economically active now as in 1990.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

  • People are, however, jaded by business's excesses: just 37% of respondents believe that business strikes the right balance between profits and public interest, the lowest proportion since Pew began asking the question in 1987.

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  • Oxfam, a British-based charity, released a report this week which describes the link between poverty and educational success measured by enrolment, the proportion of children completing four years of school, and girls' learning achievements.

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  • Between 2006 and 2008 the proportion of Muslim pupils at the Atheneum rose from half to 80%.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The proportion of adults living alone almost doubled between 1973 and 2011, from 9% to 16%, while the average household size has become smaller over the 40 years between 1971 and 2011.

    BBC: File photo of to let signs

  • Statistics show that between 1997 and 2008 the proportion of pregnant women in the UK that are aged 35 and over increased from 8% to 20%, and that of women aged 40 and over rose from 1.2% to 3.6%.

    BBC: 'Induce older mums early to cut stillbirth risk'

  • At the moment, 40% of unemployed people are between 16 and 24, and if that proportion is still the case then 1.18 million young people will be out of work.

    BBC: Young jobless capital is revealed

  • UN, there were 35 countries (all poor) where the proportion of orphans doubled, tripled or quadrupled between 1994 and 1997.

    ECONOMIST: Orphans of the virus

  • Between 1990 and 1996, the proportion of children with disabilities aged 6 to 21 who were educated in regular classrooms rose from 32 to 45 percent.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • Between 2009 and 2011, the proportion of online purchases originating on search engines dropped from 25% to 13% while Amazon-originated product searches rose from 18% to 33%.

    FORBES: Is Google Shopping Funneling its Customers to Amazon?

  • Between 1990 and 1997, the proportion of whites completing high school rose from 90 to 93 percent, while the corresponding rate among African Americans went from 82 to 87 percent.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • Between 1982 and 1992, the proportion of high school seniors who reported being in vocational programs fell from 27 to 12 percent, while the proportion for college preparatory rose from 38 to 43 percent and that for general programs from 35 to 45 percent.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • Now it is true that under the Target2 rules, the liability for losses on these balances is supposed to be shared between all eurozone central banks in proportion to their respective shareholdings in the European Central Bank.

    BBC: Could the euro survive a Greek exit?

  • The company said that the main difference between this deal and the previous one was an agreement to waive a larger proportion of the project management charge.

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  • Enrollment for three-year-olds held steady between 1991 and 1996, while the proportion of four-year-olds and five-year-olds rose.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • The proportion of children living in extreme poverty grew slightly between 1980 and 1997, from 7 to 8 percent.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • The commission recommends that the proportion of top-up members needed for broad proportionality without imposing a coalition habit on the country should be between 15% and 20%.

    BBC: The Jenkins Report: What it says

  • It also said the fall in average household size was due to an increase in the proportion of one-person households, which almost doubled between 1971 and 1998 (rising from 17% of households in 1971 to 29% in 1998) and has remained similar since.

    BBC: File photo of to let signs

  • The proportion of households renting privately fell by almost two-thirds between 1971 (20%) and 1991 (7%), then remained between 9% and 11% until 2008.

    BBC: File photo of to let signs

  • Between 1980 and 1992, for example, the proportion of disadvantaged children in four-year colleges fell slightly (from 29% to 28%) while the proportion of well-to-do children rose substantially (from 55% to 66%).

    ECONOMIST: Lexington: Poison Ivy | The

  • The proportion of voters who identify strongly with one party or another halved between 1964-70 and 1974-92.

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