Sentences with phrase «better national estimate»

Once a reliable pattern has been established, it can be extrapolated to give a better national estimate of the denominator figure.

Not exact matches

Well, research by the National Endowment for Financial Education estimates that 70 percent of those who come into large sums of money go broke within seven years.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the National Association of Home Builders estimates that U.S. builders will start fewer than 900,000 homes this year, well below the 1.3 million needed to keep up with population growth.

The national accounting estimate of profits remains the best available as it is consistent over time and captures all profits earned by US companies.

Whereas estimates from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey and Living Costs and Food Survey are broadly comparable (123 mL / adult / day versus 168 mL / person / day), the British Soft Drinks Association's figures are threefold to fourfold higher.48 61 The level and pattern of consumption will determine the magnitude of the public health effects of a sugar sweetened drinks tax, as well as its effect on health inequalities.

In contrast, national dietary surveys can provide good estimates of changes in usual intakes of subgroups of the population, including men, women, children, and adults (both sexes), provided that the data are carefully collected.

Estimated rates of lactose intolerance among minority groups range from 50 to 100 percent, though a national conference on the topic in 2010 concluded that good data on prevalence remain elusive.

Alexander's claim that Labour will be outspent by three to one is based on estimates of how much party candidates will spend locally as well as national election spending.

Labour's projected national vote share - at 35 % - is its best such performance since 2012 and puts it neck and neck with the Conservatives - but in 2013, 2014 and 2016 it was estimated to be narrowly ahead of the Tories.

«In moving from two to four degrees you really do see, in all our best estimates, a major increase in the level of action required,» says climate - adaptation expert Mark Stafford Smith, science director for Australia's national science agency.

In this study, researchers utilized national data on inpatient deaths in the United States to estimate the potential supply of deceased organ donors, and used these data, in combination with State Inpatient Databases (SIDs) to develop new metrics of OPO performance that better reflect the true deceased donor supply in each geographic area.

An image of an area of the Arctic sea ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the year.

But the findings of this ground - breaking study with the estimates of people treated in the private sector for tuberculosis reveal that there could be well over 1 million TB patients not being accounted for in the national TB programme surveillance.

They collated data obtained from international health organisations (WHO and EUROSTAT), as well as national ministries of health and statistical institutes to estimate the total costs of blood disorders.

Boslough accepts the fatality estimates for climate change (the WHO's estimate was made for the agency by epidemiologist Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University's National Center for Epidemiology and Population Health) as well as those for asteroid impacts, the latter of which are based lately on work by Harris.

The federal government did indeed make Apollo a national priority, pouring an estimated $ 25 billion — well over $ 100 billion in today's money — into the program.

Well, a human mission to Mars could last between one and three years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimates.

Estimates from the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate that roughly half the ice sheet's surface is melting, well above the average of around 25 percent for this time of year.

The latest example comes from a report from William B. Fornia and Nari Rhee published by the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS), in which the authors attempt to estimate whether pensions or 401 (k)- style defined contribution plans are a «better bang for the buck.»

Finally, Hanushek proposes three reasons why our estimates (if true) may not track the national time trends very well.

When respondents were asked in 2016 to estimate the average teacher salary in their state, their guesses were, on average, 30 % lower than the $ 57,000 average teacher pay reported by the National Education Association, the organization that collects the best available information on this topic.

«In addition, the National Audit Office recently reported that it would cost an estimated # 6.7 billion to return all school buildings to satisfactory or better condition.»

«Wisconsin's preliminary February unemployment rate remains below 7 percent, the lowest it's been since December of 2008, and well below the national rate,» said Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Reggie Newson «In addition, the preliminary monthly estimates indicate continued job growth overall.»

The best estimate comes from an internal report of one of the largest national providers of cyber charter schools: The report found that a small percent — 13.6 percent of cyber school students in those schools — were previously homeschooled.

With over six million American school children diagnosed with a wide range of disabilities — according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, an estimated 12 % of children between the ages of 3 and 21 have «special needs» — educators, as well as child behavior specialists, have developed suggestions for teaching and parenting them.

National Atlantic, a company that my employer has a large investment in, met estimates today, but had better revenues than expected.

At 17.3 percent, the 2015 estimated uninsured rate in Mississippi is well above the national uninsured rate of 11 percent, according to Enroll America, a healthcare enrollment coalition.

A number of national organizations, like the ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society, have worked hard to estimate the number of animals entering shelters.

Previously, Best Friends performed painstaking manual data collection that revealed the estimated number of dogs and cats euthanized in the U.S. has dropped from 9,000 to 5,500 per day in the past six years — an important statistic that highlights why a national, uniform data collection effort is so important.

For six (Austria, Germany, Finland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States) of the 15 Parties which reported land - use change and forestry, the estimates provided in the second national communication differed from those in their first national communication, which was the case for many Parties for other gases and sectors as well.

For one thing, it would allow us to objectively and quantitatively estimate national obligations to bear the burdens of climate protection (obligations to support adaptation as well as obligations to mitigate) and to meaningfully compare obligations even between wealthy and developing countries.

Scientific and mathematical ability were estimated using the National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Indicators (eight questions) as well as a set of fourteen mathematical questions.

In a new, comprehensive study, a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford University and UC Davis ITS has estimated the well - to - wheels (WTW) GHG emissions of US production of gasoline and diesel sourced from Canadian oil sands.

IPCC - 37: IPCC 37 will consider two methodology reports: the «2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands»; and the good practice guidance on estimating GHG emissions and removals from land use, land - use change and forestry under the Kyoto Protocol.

Thanks to the rising cost of coal and natural gas — as well as the short - term cost benefits of cadmium telluride, and falling costs of silicon and other solar options — the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that solar energy could reach nationwide grid parity by 2017.

In order to monitor global climate change on a decade - to - decade basis in support of national and foreign policy decisions, it will be necessary to better quantify and to substantially reduce the measurement errors inherent in estimates of global - mean temperature, as well as to develop an improved understanding of the processes that contribute to short term variability of global - mean temperature.

UT's sampling of well sites estimates the national leakage rate associated with the production phase of natural gas extraction to be equivalent to less than half of one percent of total natural gas produced.

This guidance document estimates these economic values, by means of best international analytical practices and environmental and economic evidence from Kenya, and shows that montane forests have consistently been undervalued in conventional national accounting.

Nevertheless, some estimates of the benefits of a more circular economy in the future context of scarce resources indicate potential positive outcomes on trade balance, employment, greenhouse gas emission reductions, efficiency of enterprises and national resources, as well as better security of supply.

The National Safety Council has announced its estimate for total fatal auto accidents in 2016, and the news isn't good.

What if you could review a dictionary of legal terms, research statutes of limitations, look up information about visa types, investigate crime rates and history for specific crimes, as well as state and national average comparisons, get closing cost estimates, and information on square footage, home sales price, and utility prices from one iPhone app?

With our current, reasonably robust border controls, the National Crime Agency estimates that in addition to the alcohol and tobacco mentioned above, between 18 - 23 tonnes of heroin and 25 - 30 tonnes of cocaine enter the country each year, as well as a significant proportion of the 270 tonnes of cannabis that is consumed here.

The Insurance Research Council, for instance, estimates that 9.9 percent of drivers in New Hampshire are uninsured — well below the national average of 13 percent.

Adolescent family structure and well - being in the add health study To make these estimates, I used the Adolescent Health Study --- a national long - term sample of children in junior high and high schools --- relying on data from Wave I, conducted in 1995.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

Unit costs for health and social care resources will largely be derived from local and national sources and estimated in line with best practice.

Well, consider that in 2011, the National Association of REALTORS ® estimated real estate professionals cumulatively drive 3.6 billion miles a year.

«This is significantly better than the national average, which we estimate at 9.1 transactions per person, as well as that achieved in the U.S. (7.8 transactions per person),» he says.