The phrase "affluent study" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing research or studies related to wealth or affluent populations, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The affluent study revealed significant disparities in health outcomes among different socioeconomic groups."
Alternatives: "wealthy research" or "prosperous analysis".
The more-affluent study participants also spent 4.6 more minutes a day on average doing moderate or vigorous exercise.
A potential weakness is that the Generation R cohort is slightly skewed towards a relatively affluent, healthy study population [ 30].
Among the more affluent families studied by Hart and Risley, a higher proportion of the talk directed at children was affirming, which was defined to include not just compliments like "Good job!" but also responses in which parents repeat and build on a child's comments: "Yes, it is a bunny!
Our findings are based on a nationally representative sample of US singleton children, which is more variable in terms of SES than the affluent sample studied by Ertel and colleagues.
In studying affluent consumers by age, the survey found the largest group, 39 percent, are baby boomers, followed by Generation X, at 33 percent; millennials, at 20 percent; and the elderly, at 8 percent.
"Children from lower socioeconomic groups continue to be significantly disadvantaged compared with their peers from more affluent backgrounds," the study says.
The book, "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement" (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), is by John U. Ogbu, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a well-known figure in the field of student achievement for more than three decades.
According to the Nielsen study, affluent people are "25% more likely to use Facebook" than poorer people, while people in the bottom third of the income pyramid are "37% more likely to use MySpace than those in the top third".
We note again that city variations may be limited to the chosen affluent and deprived study neighbourhoods.
Overall, however, neighbourhood differences in health (self-assessed health, BMI) and health behaviours (smoking and physical activity) between affluent and deprived study areas appear to be much stronger in Glasgow than in Hamilton.
