Key Quotes for 2003

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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Weihai is a large port city on the exteem tip of the Shandong peninsula in north China, facing Korea. It has a population of 320,000, although Greater Weihai, including country areas and sevral smaller towns, has a total population of 2.5 million. Because it is surrounded on three sides by the yellow sea, it has been designated as one of the 200 most healthy places in the world to live.
Evangelicals Now, Dec 2003.
 
Down s Syndrome affects about one in every 600 live births and results in an extra chromosome in every cell.
Evangelicals, Dec 2003.
 
A new study from the Barna Research Group, conduted with 2,660 20 somethings, shows that Americans in their 20s are signicantly less likely than any age group to be involved in church.
Only three out of ten 20 somethings, 31% attended church in a typical week, compared to four out of ten of those in their 30s 42% and nearly half of all adults aged 40 and older 49%.
Religion Today and Evangelicals, Dec 2003.
 
China s 1.3 billion people now enjoy a reasonably good quality of life. Women typically live until the age of 73 and men until 69. Private enterprise and foreign investment have spurred economic growth so that today the average annual income is £570.
Presbyteran Herald, Nov 2003.
 
China s 1.3 billion people now enjoy a reasonably good quality of life. Women typically live until the age of 73 and men until 69. Private enterprise and foreign investment have spurred economic growth so that today the average annual income is £570.
Presbyteran Herald, Nov 2003.
 
A brief survey of recent news headlines reveals other problems. Unemployment in urban areas amounts to around 24 million. Health experts are worried that the country could be facing an Aids disaster like that experienced in Africa during the 1990s. A Hong Kong newpaper recently reported that more than 300,000 children die on the mainland each year as a result of poisonous building, and Chinas annual struggle against flooding is by now familiar to all.
Presbyteran Herald, Nov 2003.
 
The global emergency of HIV/AIDS should be the priority for the church- 13,000 people become HIV positive every day and over half of them are young people under 24.
Youthwork, Dec 2003.
 
People in the U.K,
94% exchange presents
80% have a special meal on Christmas day/ eve with the family
80% decorate inside / outside their home
74% have turkey over the Christmas period
66% buy Christmas crackers
51% buy an advent calender
49% buy a Christmas tree
49% make a donation to charity
25% go to a pantomime
4% spend it alone
1% do not celebrate
Over Christmas 2001 the average Briton spent £826 on presents, spent 15 hours shopping, walked 20 miles and queued for two hours.
The U.K spends £20bn on Christmas with £1.6bn going on food and drink.
we each send an average of 50 Christmas cards, costing over £2bn.
The toys and games Christmas market is worth £850m with 180 million toys ending up under the tree.
Over indulgence at Christmas parties caused two million people to take a sickie from work costing business £110m.
During Christmas 2000 the U.K consumed 10 million Turkeys, 25 million Christmas puddings, 250 million pints of beer and 35 million bottles of wine.
7 million children leave santa a mince pie and drink on Christmas eve.
More pedestrians are killed on our roads in December than any other month.
Christmas is the busiest time of year for the Samaritans.
60% found Christmas depressing or stressful.
One in 5 people aged over 65 will expererience lonliness this Christmas.
A survey of 1,000 people revealed that 43% would attend one or more Christian services over Christmas.
Statistics taken from www.eauk.org, www.britishturkey.co.uk,www.learn.co.uk.
Youthwork, Dec 2003.
 
Of the 16,000 teens who took part in the survey, an equal number said that they were worried about their appearance, school work and exams. Nearly a thurd listed death as their biggest worries, and only 8% felt able to talk to their parents about depression. A fifth were happy to talk to their parents about sex.
However, a parallel survey of 6,000 parents who have teenage children revealed a lack of mutual understanding. In contrast to the teen survey, 37% believed that their teenage child would happily talk to them about sex, and a thurd expressed concern over teen depression, although the majority did correctly predict that teenagers would cite moodiness as their worst quality.
Youthwork,Dec 2003.
 
The use of the dance drug ecstasy has exploded in the last five years. A new United Nations report claims that 2.2% of the U.K population aged 16-59, around 730,000 people now take E, compared with 1.2 % five years ago. The U.K now has the thurd most ecstacy consumers per head, behind Australia and Ireland, and the drug is soon likely to overtake heroin and cocaine in terms of popularity.
Youthwork, Dec 2003.
 
Teenage respondents told Young Voice that they seldom get taught or shown how to handle stress.Levels of stress were rated as very high or unbearable most of the time for 22% of those interviewed. Only 17% were satisfied with the help they had been given on handling it.
Youthwork, Dec 2003.
 
Alcohol is blamed for the destruction of British culture, and it s over-consumption is particularly prevalent among under 25s. Here are the latest government figures on young teen drinking,
Of 10,000 11 to 15 year olds questioned in a DOH survey, 24% had an alcoholic drink in the previous seven days. The percentage was slightly higher among boys than girls.
Drinking alcohol is strongly related to age. Of those surveyed, 5% of 11 year olds had drunk alcohol in the last week, compared with 47% of 15 year olds.
The vast majority of teenage drinking occurs at the weekend, with saturday being the mostpopular day. sunday the third most popular.
The mean consumption of alcohol for those who had drunk in the last week was 10.5 units in 2002. This figure is almost exactly double to what it was in 1990.
Flavored drinks among boys include beer, lager and cider. Among the girls the favourites are alcopops and spirits.
Among pupils who drink, 48% said that they never buy alcohol, with the majority purchasing through friends or relatives instead.
Department of Health survey called smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England, 2002.
 
More than 16 million people tuned in to watch the return of Dirty Den to Eastenders, according to BBC figures. Leslie Grantham s original soap bad boy made a comeback in October after an absence of 14 years, and the corporation claims that his highly publisised homecoming attracted a 62% share of the viewing public.
Youthwork, Dec 2003.
 
While 71% of Americans belive in hell, only half of 1% think that they are likely to end up there.
Thurd Way, 2003.
 
An estimated 1,500,000 people were living with AIDS in Latin America at the end of 2002, (20,000 in Ecuador)
It is feared that this could become as bad as Africa.
Thurd Way, Dec 2003.
 
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