Sentence examples for proportion of abuse from inspiring English sources

Studies commonly find a high proportion of abuse among children less than 12 months old with femur fractures.

A report published in 2010 showed that 55% of Chinese illicit drug users abused recreational drugs, which exceeded the proportion of abused heroin, a traditionally abused drug in China [ 3].

A 2009 survey by the children's charity NSPCC suggested that the highest proportion of sexual abuse experienced by teens (66%) was perpetrated by people under 18.

But Labour says the proportion of domestic abuse crimes leading to prosecution and conviction has been falling - indicating a deeper problem.

With sexual abuse rarely reported to the police, and reported cases not often resulting in conviction, we are likely to have missed out on a large proportion of sexual abuse cases.

Figure 1 shows graphs of the proportion of child abuse and neglect experts who included the indicated age as one at which the child being left home alone for 4 h should be determined child neglect under that scenario's conditions.

In addition, the highest proportion of financial abuse and neglect (deprivation) in the FOP was observed among subjects who were both witnesses and victims of family violence in their childhood or adolescence in the FOO (Table  6).

The fact that the present study shows a higher proportion of psychological abuse than other types of violence indicates the need for prevention and intervention measures with this type of IPV.

The present study found a greater proportion of physical abuse (as witness or victim) in rural areas and among those with a lower educational level than in the 2004 study.

The proportion of women abused (CAS ≥ 7) is comparable between arms (≥ 80%), and the proportion of women abused among those victimised in the previous 12 months (the majority) is equal in both arms (95%).

It said a large proportion of domestic abuse-related incidents were reported to and recorded by the police – 1.03m of the 1.8m – and after investigations the police concluded in 41% of these cases (421,000) that a domestic abuse-related criminal offence had been committed.