Sentences with phrase «cent gap between»

A recent Maclean's article highlighted a 26 per cent gap between full - time wages paid to men and women in Canada.

We see completely stable teaching teams containing examiners and with a history of accurate predictions experiencing a 20 per cent gap between A * - C predictions and results.

However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children reaching these levels compared with their peers.

Four council areas also saw none of the poorest 20 per cent achieve this benchmark and East Renfrewshire saw a 31.5 per cent gap between rich and poor.

This was to be done by calculating the «critical load» of acid that each ecosystem could absorb without suffering damage and then aiming to reduce by 50 per cent the gap between that and the levels of acid fallout in 1980, the base year for the calculations.

Not exact matches

The income gap between the top one per cent and the rest of filers has widened over time, calculated in 2010 constant dollars.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

Thus, at average wages and salaries, there is a significant gap to be filled by third pillar income to eliminate the difference between what is available from OAS, C / QPP and GIS, and a replacement rate target of 70 per cent.

The politically sensitive goods trade gap with China dropped 11.6 per cent to $ US25.9 billion, which will probably do little to ease tensions between the United States and China.

This widening in the gap between fixed and variable housing rates is likely to have contributed to the pick - up in the proportion of borrowers choosing to take out fixed - rate housing loans: in November 2004, the latest available data, 11 per cent of new owner - occupier housing loan approvals were at fixed rates, up from 7 per cent three months earlier and the highest share since the beginning of 2004, which followed a period of monetary policy tightening (Graph 45).

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

In the «mid upper» job range, women make 9 per cent more than men but while for half of staff there is no gap in pay between men and women, there are significantly more women in junior roles than men.

In comparison, Asahi's share of the water market fell from 19 per cent in 2015 to 15 per cent in the first half of 2016, according to Deutsche Bank, as the price gap narrowed between its branded products, such as Cool Ridge, and CCA's brands.

The price gap between Coles» and Woolworths» private label brands and those at discounter Aldi has fallen as much as 70 per cent in two years, reflecting the major chains» $ 1.6 billion investment into reducing prices.

The price gap between CCA's core products and those of Pepsi / Schweppes has risen from 30 per cent in 2004 to 50 per cent last year, taking a toll on CCA's volumes.

Fonterra, which accounts for 20 per cent of total global dairy trade and is the second - largest milk processor in Australia, estimates the price gap between powders and other products has had a negative $ NZ800 million ($ 725.5 million) impact.

In 2015, drawing on data from the United States Census Bureau, the National Women's Law Center created a map that illustrates the pay gap between mothers and fathers state by state, and found that, while moms in Louisiana are only making 58.2 cents for every dollar that a dad earns, that jumps up to 90 cents in Washington, D.C. (which, to be clear, is still unacceptable).

Just before the election, the gap between the two options was six per cent.

Second, the gap between the overall - majority goals is vast: anything between a Labour lead of 1 per cent and a Tory lead of 10 per cent is likely to give us a hung parliament.

These 306 voters represent 16 per cent of the remaining 1,900 — a far larger number than the tiny gap between the two main parties.

Opinion polling regularly shows that a substantial percentage — 73 per cent of people in 2004 — considers the gap between those with high and those with low incomes to be too large.29

There is an argument that Darling could close the gap between the 18 per cent capital gains tax rate and the new 50 per cent top rate of income tax.

Then we identified the marginal seats where the gap between the top two parties was less than 15 per cent, and the share of «left - behinds» was well above the national average.

In the current situation both Labour and the Coalition would cut deeply and dramatically, the gap between them at around 1 per cent of public expenditure per year is smaller than either would like to acknowledge and since Labour privately admit they would have needed to increase the rate of cutback originally envisaged by Alistair Darling in pre-election phase, it is probably smaller yet.

The gap between Ed and David Miliband in the final vote was the equivalent of about five MPs switching between the brothers, so the Trickett - Hoyle pact would account for 20 per cent of that result.

However, from a high point last year when the Tory lead over Labour was more than 20 per cent, the gap between the parties has narrowed with most recent polls suggesting there will be a hung parliament.

Today the gap between the two leaders has narrowed: 34 per cent picked Brown as the best crisis PM and 28 per cent picked Cameron.

If they revise down the Treasury's growth forecasts by 1 per cent of national income, the gap between tax revenues and spending increases by around # 10bn, meaning the government has to find more money from somewhere.

Moreover, a one per cent increase in a surname pushes up domains featuring that name by only 0.74 % — suggesting a substantial gap between likely demand and current domain registration.

Men tend to be more adversely impacted by deprivation than women, with the gap in life expectancy at age 30 between the top and bottom one per cent of deprived neighbourhoods at 10.9 years for men and 8.4 years for women.

«At some locations 55 per cent of drivers were found to leave less than a two second gap between them and the vehicle in front, and 44 per cent less than a one second.»

The gap in levels of obesity is now at 6.2 per cent between those living int he most disadvantaged areas (14.9 per cent) and the least disadvantaged (8.7 per cent).

At a time when the Government is working to reduce the current skills gap between the number of technology jobs and the people qualified to fill them, the research has revealed a significant increase in expenditure on technology, with schools currently realising an increase in their budgets of 6.6 per cent.

In the UK, there is an average 22 per cent gap in attainment between children receiving Free School Meals and their peers.

Highlighting the gap between rich and poor, 44 per cent of those eligible for Free School Meals were found to not be «school ready» by the time they start primary school, while this falls to 27 per cent for those not eligible for Free School Meals.

The department has reported a mean pay gap — the difference between average salaries for men and women - of 5.3 per cent and a median pay gap of 5.9 per cent.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

There is still a way to go — latest data indicate a 10 per cent attendance gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Detail of the figures suggests the gap between the lowest 20 per cent of children and the average for all children has narrowed by more than five percentage points in the past four years.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

The results show that GCSE results are not consistent with primary school tests, as the attainment gap between the north and south for primary results is just 1.1 per cent.

Latest data indicate a 10 per cent attendance gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

The goals are realistic because the gap between the number currently meeting the standard and the 80 per cent target is known, and resources are being strategically directed to help schools achieve the target (https://www.ssc.govt.nz/bps-strong-foundation-work-life#result5).

The school has a 9 per cent gap in expected progress in English and a 10 per cent gap in maths between pupil premium and non-pupil premium funded students, something that Mrs Skinner said Claydon was working hard to reduce further.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

In 2010, the national gap between regular and premium was just 9 %, or $ 0.24 cents.

But as actively managed ETFs continue to proliferate, the cost gap between mutual funds and active ETFs is narrowing, particularly for the handful of ETF makers that pay advisers trailer commissions of up to 0.75 per cent.

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.