Some 24 percent of black adults now characterize themselves that way.

About 1 percent of adults suffer from it at some point in their lives.

As a result, 24 percent of adults are serving time.

In 1980, he said, only 6 percent of adults over 35 years old had never married.

About 30 percent of American adults fly at least once a year.

In 1987, 32 percent of adults said that people who had one or two drinks a day were at great risk.

Some 10.5 percent of young adults aged 25 to 34 were living at home last year.

Now the unemployment here ran at 80 percent of adults.

But by 1980, 62 percent of poor adults were women, the study said.

More than 70 percent of adults suffer back pain at some time in their lives, studies show.