Sentence examples for a poverty indicator from inspiring English sources

Among the first to call attention to the increases were Department of Education officials, who use subsidized lunch rates as a poverty indicator in federal testing.

The district has a much higher poor population than the state: three-fourths of L.A. Unified students are on free or reduced-price lunch, a poverty indicator, compared with 59% in the state.

Briefly, the first dimension includes a poverty indicator, an employment indicator, and an inequality indicator; the second dimension comprises 2 indicators of literacy and parental years of study; and the last dimension includes a youth and a regional violence indicator.

Each infant's primary caregiver was identified, and administered a detailed survey on parental and household characteristics, including each child's gender and birth order, maternal age and education, and whether the family was receiving minimum living standard guarantee payments (a poverty indicator).

A poverty indicator suggests whether a child was from a household living under the poverty line, defined as the households in the first, second and third wealth quintiles in the RDHS 2005 and the first and second wealth quintiles in 2010.

"If the country knows that interest rates are up by one-quarter of a percent, people need to know that the we have a child poverty indicator that is the worst in the industrial world," Mr. Miringoff said.

Median weekly earnings for full-time workers rose by around £30, while the number of children receiving free school meals – a key poverty indicator – has fallen from 42.2% five years ago to 33.6%.

In addition, 65percentt of Edison's students qualified last year for free or reduced-price lunches, a generally recognized poverty indicator, up from 57percentthehe previous year.

Predicted poverty status was then computed using the results from a discriminant analysis of the poverty indicator that selects the household characteristics that best discriminate between poor and non-poor households.

Because NAACCR has elevated the census tract poverty indicator to a required, as opposed to optional, data item for central cancer registries beginning with cases diagnosed in 2014, the number of states available for analysis is expected to grow appreciably.

We divided poverty indicator scores into quartiles to allow a comparison of operated cases and controls with adjustment for potential confounders.