Sentence examples for population representation from inspiring English sources

While black and minority ethnic Britons make up 14.5% of the population, representation in the industry had shrunk from 7.4% in 2009 to 5.5% in 2012.

Indigenous students make up just 1.09% of Australia's university population (representation in postgraduate courses and in academic staffing is even lower); Indigenous people constitute 2.5% of the national population.

The Fourteenth Amendment established that the recently-emancipated slaves were citizens, and that in place of the old system of counting only sixty per cent of the slave population, representation would be determined by "counting the whole number of persons in each state".

Accessibility-based measures are increasingly being incorporated into deprivation indicators and the paper concludes by suggesting that, if such analysis is to inform urban planning, local service provision and the spatial allocation of financial resources, greater attention needs to be given to the method of population representation utilised in such models.

They are the lowest achievers in education, highly unemployed and best known for the highest numbers in prison population representation.

The religious groups in the urban centre of Bangui, in the order of their population representation, are the Christians which form the majority, Animists following ancient beliefs, and Muslims.

We have previously demonstrated such a difference in encoding between the streams with respect to object shape properties [4], in which population representations of shapes within the ventral stream are both more distinctly delineated and better categorized with respect to perceptual similarity than in the dorsal stream.

We argue that a productive model for the investigation we advocate will almost certainly involve a combination of simple individual models and simple but demographically accurate population representations.

In modern polities with large populations, representation in some form is necessary if government is to be based on the consent of the governed.

Confusing population with representation risks putting the debate into reverse gear.

Although African-Americans constitute some thirteen per cent of the population, their representation in state governorships is zero.