Sentence examples for less advantaged groups from inspiring English sources

But the extent of this "representational inequality" is staggering: when preferences of low or middle income Americans diverge from those of the affluent, there is virtually no relationship between policy outcomes and the desires of these less advantaged groups.

Alternatively, less advantaged groups may be less likely to report discrimination because it is a common event in their lives.

During the recession, tumbling values in the housing market "increased wealth inequality because houses are the main asset of less advantaged groups," reported the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Homogeneity increases the robustness of the findings with respect to the research question, but limits their generalisability to populations with different ethnicity or socially less advantaged groups.

Second, it is important to clarify the conceptual and practical distinction between the social causes of health and the social factors determining the distribution of these causes between more and less advantaged groups.

Understanding whether and how interventions work in different groups is important to ensure that apparently beneficial aggregate population effects do not conceal widening disparities in health between more and less advantaged groups [ 9].

What type of individual engages (or does not engage) in endogenous sorting is ex ante ambiguous as the compliers may conceptually represent a more or less advantaged group.

However, there was an indication of a greater effect of traffic density in the less advantaged group (difference: -2.3 g; 95 percent CI: -5.8 g, 1.2 g), although confidence interval was wide.

American research has documented a significant achievement gap between less-advantaged groups such as African Americans, Hispanics and native Americans and more advantaged groups such as whites and Asian Americans although this gap has narrowed in general over the last three decades Kao and Thompson (2003).

Whether obesity will follow the classic pattern and become more concentrated in less-advantaged groups or whether it will remain widespread in this population is uncertain.

The lower survival rates among less-advantaged groups were explained in part by a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with advanced NHL, as expressed by several prognostic factors.