Sentences with phrase «average index number»

We got our cost of living data from the consumer price index compiled by the Council for Community and Economic Research, which puts the average index number for the cities we considered at 108 (lower is better).

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By building a portfolio that ties back to your Family Index Number — the average annual return needed to make sure you reach your financial goals — your advisor is able to create a customized yet repeatable process.

Statistics: The Producer Price Index, which measures the average changes in selling prices that domestic producers get for the products they manufacture, will release its numbers for June.

An index of 1 is average; the smaller the index number is, the fewer complaints the company receives compared to its competitors.

An index of 1.00 is average, and a number below 1, such as State Farm County's index, is better (gets fewer complaints than the average company).

The prices paid index was 56.4, up from 42.6 last month, new orders index slumped to 18.4 from 35.7, shipments declined to 23.9 from 32.4, the unfilled orders index fell to 7.8 from 20.1, the delivery times index gained to 20.7 from 14.0, inventories dropped to 9.5 from 16.5, prices received jumped to 29.8 from 20.7, the number of employees index grew to 27.1 from 25.6, and the average employee workweek gained to 21.6 from 12.8.

The number of employees index slid to 34.6 from 37.1, while the average workweek index decreased to 14.0 from 21.8.

Batting average is calculated by dividing the number of days (or months, quarters, etc.) in which the manager beats or matches the index by the total number of days (or months, quarters, etc.) in the period of question and multiplying that factor by 100.

Pay attention to the average index of interest over time, since it can be a bit confusing; 100 here represents the highest search volume there has ever been, it is not the integer for number of searches.

The number of employees index was at 35, off from 36 last month, while the average employee workweek index grew to 23 from 17.

The number of employees index remained at 26, while the average employee workweek index slid to 10 from 15.

According to Keep Australia Beautiful's 2013/14 National Litter Index, litter rates also continue to reduce nationally — with the overall average number of items per 1,000 m2 at 51, down from 56 in 2012/13, and the overall average estimated volume per 1,000 m2 at 5.97 litres, down from 6.13 litres in 2012/13.

The average caloric intake for a diet like this is approximately 2,500 calories, but these numbers will vary with a woman's size and pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI).

There are several sites that index popular mom blogs, including Top Mommy Blogs, which lists the number of average monthly referrals, as well as basic information about each blog's focus.

The index number for a further average (the median press mentions) grew from 100 to 274.

Total apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)-- which measures severity of sleep apnea by counting the number of pauses in breathing during sleep — for all patients significantly decreased an average of 35 events per hour after the device was planted, which corresponds to an average reduction of 84 percent.

The state ranks 19th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia on the spending index, which considers both the number of students in districts spending at least the national average and how far other students fall below that average.

I still propose each class be given a number that reflects the the average number of years students failed to pass their Mastery Test (The Social Promotion Index).

To put numbers to it, the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index's cyclically adjusted price - to - earnings ratio («CAPE»), which compares a 10 - year average of corporate earnings to today's share prices, clocks in at 31.

These funds have no choice but to use sampling: they buy a smaller number of bonds that approximate the overall characteristics of the index (average term, coupon, duration, etc.).

The index is generally a published number or percentage, such as the average interest rate or yield on Treasury bills.

While people argue about the numbers, index funds tend to do better than average (depends on what you call «average», of course).

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Changes in the average are expressed in index numbers rather than dollars and cents.

It was originally computed by adding up the per - share price of the stocks of each company in the index and dividing this sum by the number of companies - that's why it's called an average.

If people do significantly less well managing defined contribution assets on average than a comparable index fund, then they should not be managing their own assets, much less concentrating into a small number of stocks.

Editorially, Kiplinger's magazine has championed over the decades a number of personal finance strategies and investment products that later became popular «conventional wisdom»: the superiority of systematic investing (dollar cost averaging) over market timing; growth stocks that paid little or no dividends but invested in new technologies; mutual funds, especially no - load funds; stock index funds; term life insurance, rather than whole - life; and global investing.

Capitalization - weighted indices like the S&P 500 have a number of virtues, the most important of which for present purposes is that they tell us the return of the average dollar invested.

With index funds, you can assume that the long - term average return will be something in the neighborhood of 6.5 percent real because that number has applied for as far back as we have records.

Divide by 420 (the number of months in 35 years) to determine that your average indexed monthly earnings will increase by $ 100.

As far as I can see you got the tied for 10th highest GISTemp anomaly part right (I assume you have the Land - Ocean Temperature Index in mind, not the land only numbers) but my spreadsheet disagrees with your claim that the average anomaly for 2013 to date would put it in 3rd place — I get 9th.

The Oceanic Niño Index, the three - month - average sea surface temperature departure from the long - term normal in one region of the Pacific Ocean, is the primary number we use to measure the ocean part of El Niño, and that value for November — January is 2.3 °C, tied with the same period in 1997 - 98.

So is phone book, so maybe we should just average the phone numbers in each thermometer location and use it as an index.

The team then compared the oxygen isotope ratio for each year's wet season from 1990 to 2010 with a cyclone activity index of the average accumulated energy expended, based on factors such as number of cyclones, cyclone strength, size and time on storm track.

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

At the same time, the journal in many fields grew into the primary measure of reputation, as journal ranking could be carefully calculated by Impact Factor (average number of times an article is cited within a two - year period), in way not possible with books (for which there was no citation index).

• Women hold 20.3 per cent of all board positions of Alberta issuers in the TSX / S & P 60 Index, in line with the average number of women on boards for the entire TSX / S & P 60 Index (20.8 per cent) according to Catalyst's most recent survey.

An average company has an index number of 1.

GEICO, State Farm, and Progressive, three of the largest companies in Florida, perform better than average as well with underweight complaint index numbers.

Here are the complaint index numbers for the biggest insurers in Massachusetts (lower complaint index number is better; 1 is average):

An index of 1 is average and the lower the number, the better rated the company is compared to its competitors.

The women's average body - mass index was 23, a number that's considered normal weight.

An index of 1 is average, so the lower the number, the happier drivers are with their insurer's service.

We indexed each of these data points on a scale of 0 to 100, took a weighted average, then indexed the final number to generate the Healthcare Access Index.

An index of 1 is average; the smaller the index number is, the fewer complaints the company receives compared to its competitors.

An index of 1 is average, so the lower the number, the better the company is compared to its competitors (the lower its percentage of complaints relative to the size of its business).

An index of 1 is average, so the lower the number, the better the company is doing compared to the other companies.

An index of 1 is average, and the lower the number, the better the company is at receiving fewer complaints compared to its competitors.

A company with an index number of 1, such as Progressive, is right around the average for the state.

An index of 1.00 is average, and a number below 1, such as State Farm County's index, is better (gets fewer complaints than the average company).