"For British society generally it is a problem that so few children from deprived backgrounds emerge with the qualifications necessary for entry into our most selective institutions.
But establishing a causal relationship was difficult, with unemployed obese adults more likely to live in the most deprived areas, and have poor qualifications and health issues such as diabetes.
Compared to never smokers, current smokers were more likely to be male, of younger age, Māori ethnicity, never married, have lower educational qualifications, lower incomes, live in deprived neighbourhoods, and report more factors of individual deprivation.
Youth unemployment has spiked to record levels, especially those in the most deprived areas of the country without qualifications".
Thousands of pupils excluded from state schools are being deprived of the opportunity to gain qualifications that would help them build a future, according to children's campaigners.
Reference category; Note: N may not add up to sample size (6,574) for some variables due to unanswered questions Of all factors assessed those living in the most deprived areas and those with no educational qualifications had the greatest probability of accumulating multiple behavioural risk factors, with over a 3 fold increase associated with combinations of four or five risk factors.
Māori socially-assigned as European-only were more likely to have at least a secondary educational qualification, report higher living standards, be less socioeconomically deprived at an individual level (NZiDep) and also tended to live in less deprived areas (NZDep decile) than Māori who were socially-assigned to Māori or non-European ethnic groups (Table 2).
With that in mind, they can ill-afford to be deprived of the 32-year-old forward in the latter stages of the Champions League, qualification for which will be assured by victory against Spartak Moscow tomorrow.
As reported in Table 1, 56% of the sample were female, 68% were aged 18 or less at admission and 82% were of White ethnicity; most were from less deprived areas (69%) and had one or both parents with higher educational qualifications (81%).
The Deprivation Index uses nine variables (benefit income, employment, household income, communication, transport, support, qualifications, living space, and home ownership) from the census to place small area blocks on a deprivation scale from 1 to 10; 10 represents the most deprived 10% of New Zealand areas, while 1 represents the 10% least deprived areas.
