Sentence examples for ethnic values from inspiring English sources

They include, for example, the influence of ethnic values (Borjas 1992), religious convictions (Iannaccone 1990), or the effect of cognitive dissonance on preferences (Elster 1982).

Some ethnic values and cultural practices significantly explain regional inequalities in under-five mortality in Nigeria.

Table 4 presents the results of bivariate relationship between under-five mortality and the selected ethnic values and practices.

In effect, addressing poor child health outcomes requires scientific evidence on such important characteristics like ethnic values and norms.

Hence, this study examines the influence of ethnic values and practices on under-five mortality in Nigeria.

Table 2 presents the percentage distribution of the study population by selected ethnic values and practices according to ethnic affiliations.

Although some existing studies have provided evidence for measurement invariance across ethnic groups of cultural value measures, these studies have focused on adult-only, or Hispanic-only populations [ 1, 2, 19], which potentially limits generalizability to other populations.

This meant that the correlation between the true ethnic density value and the values provided were 0.975.

In 2012, The Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI), an ERS task force, presented new multi-ethnic reference values for spirometry [ 5] for several different ethnicities within the three to 95 years age-span.

3 However, younger adult patients (aged 18 25 years) valued access relatively more highly (compared with patients aged 55 64 years); patients from Asian and Chinese ethnic backgrounds valued telephone access relatively more highly (compared with white patients).

Professor Alan Smithers, director of Centre for Employment and Education Research at Buckingham University, said: "Ethnic minorities value education more than the white British do".