Sentences with phrase «cent of households in»

Homeowners had a lower share at 17.8 per cent of these households in 2006, up from 16.0 per cent five years earlier.

The share of serious renovators is lower in the other centres, at 14 per cent of households in Toronto, 13 per cent in Vancouver, and 11 per cent in Montreal.

This represents an average of eight per cent of all households in those centres.

The report estimates that 1.48 million or 13.7 per cent of Canadian households were in core housing need in 2001, down from 1.57 million or 15.6 per cent of households in 1996.

In 2011, of the 42 per cent of households in Victoria that contained children, just over 10 per cent were single parent households.

This guidance document aims to support Lao PDR in achieving the goal defined in the Rural Electrification Master Plan, namely to provide access to electricity to more than 90 per cent of households in Lao PDR by 2020.

«Sixty to seventy per cent of households in England affected by the [bedroom tax] contain somebody with a disability and many of these people will not be able to move home easily due to their disability.

Not exact matches

According to the Canadian Bankers Association, 69 per cent of household debt in Canada is made up of residential mortgage debt, while 18 per cent comes from lines of credit and five per cent is credit card debt.

• Credit card delinquency rates remain low, at only 0.87 per cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per cent of total household debt in Canada.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

Nevertheless, Canada is a nation of homeowners — nearly 70 per cent of households own their dwelling (in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, around 120,000 owners possess more than one residential property.)

Paying for all of the costs associated with a detached home in the Vancouver area requires 121 per cent of median household income; for a condo, it's 46 per cent of income, making it Canada's least affordable city, according to economists at the Royal Bank of Canada.

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

«For decades, households in Ontario had incomes as much as 20 per cent above the Canada average, and 10 per cent higher as recently as the turn of the century.

BMO says 84.4 per cent of households headed by young people owe some form of debt, compared with 82 per cent of the same households in 1984.

The value of shares and other equities gained 3.7 per cent in the quarter, while the value of household real estate gained 1.5 per cent.

Despite the increase in debt, households continued to get richer in the third quarter as their net worth gained 2.2 per cent on the back of a strong stock market.

Meanwhile, the total household debt service ratio, measured as total obligated payments of principal and interest as a proportion of household disposable income for both mortgage and non-mortgage debt, remained flat at 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.

Statistics Canada said Thursday household credit market debt as a proportion of household disposable income was 170.4 per cent in the fourth quarter.

As a share of total household sector disposable income, the cash flow effect in this scenario is estimated be less than 0.2 per cent on average per annum over each of the next three years (Graph 7).

Growth in household credit has remained relatively stable at around 5.5 per cent since the beginning of the year, a pace below the historical average (Chart 22), following an extended period of rapid growth that led to a substantial buildup in household debt.

This initiative did contribute to a massive decline in instances of absolute poverty — from 49 per cent of total households in 1970 to five per cent by 2002.

Since the early 1980s, the proportion of household financial assets held as deposits has fallen from about 50 per cent to below 30 per cent; this has been mirrored by a comparable rise in the proportion of household assets held as claims on life insurance and superannuation funds (Graph 11).

With funds managers holding about 15 - 20 per cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition of household assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.

Given the nation's debt load — as of February, households had a record $ 2.1 trillion of mortgage and non-mortgage debt — Poloz estimates the economy is 50 per cent more sensitive to rate hikes than in the past.

Debt payments now represent about 14 per cent of household disposable income, the highest share in three years.

The revisions showed that in the first half of 2017, household consumption and residential investment combined totalled 64.3 per cent as the share of the total economy, a record.

«We find that 60 per cent of the small business deduction goes to households with more than $ 150,000 in income,» Mintz said, of research he has previously done on the subject.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

Although it is less than 2 per cent of total household debt, growth in margin lending has accounted for over a fifth of the rise in banks» personal lending (excluding credit cards) since 1996.

The tightening in monetary policy has, however, resulted in a rise in the interest payments of the household sector from around 6 per cent of household disposable income in the first half of 1999, to around 7 1/4 per cent in the March quarter (Graph 15).

The robust rate of spending by US households and businesses has resulted in a sharp increase in imports into the US, with the volume of imports increasing by 9.2 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

Statistics Canada said household credit market debt as a proportion of household disposable income increased to 167.8 per cent, up from 166.6 per cent in the first quarter.

Either way, come September, for the first time, Australians can no longer watch Australia's One Day or Twenty20 Internationals played in Australia on free - to - air television — with that (effectively siphoned) privilege going to the fewer than 30 per cent of Australian households subscribed to pay television.

Valuation effects, largely due to falls in the prices of bank shares, reduced the value of the household sector's directly owned share portfolio by 1.4 per cent in the March quarter, but these shares have since rebounded in value.

The ongoing accumulation of household debt has led to a further increase in the debt - servicing ratio; interest payments as a proportion of disposable income rose to 9.3 per cent in the September quarter (Graph 23), and are expected to rise further.

The U.K.'s Office of National Statistics on Thursday said the economy grew 0.3 per cent in the second quarter, after 0.2 per cent in the first, the lowest growth for any major advanced economy since the start of 2017, according to Reuters, which also reported flat business investment and little growth in household spending.

Households» inflation expectations over the year ahead, as surveyed by the Melbourne Institute, have shifted up from an average of 3 3/4 per cent in the second half of 1998 to around 5 per cent in recent months (Graph 40).

National accounts data show that growth in real household consumption in the second half of 2003 was 7 per cent on an annualised basis, the strongest pace in over 20 years.

While payments are expected to rise in Alberta, the report says that Calgary and Edmonton are still the most affordable condo markets when local incomes are taken into account, with mortgage payments taking only about 9 per cent of household income.

Over the past decade, household debt in Australia has grown at an average annual rate of just under 15 per cent.

Canada wasn't the focus of the panel discussion the governor was participating in, but Carney did hint, in passing, that the BoC is willing to put up with higher than two per cent inflation in order to avoid hurting highly indebted Canadian households by raising interest rates too quickly.

People might not recognize that this is a huge chunk of the population: in the U.S., 35 to 45 per cent of low - income households are «unbanked» — which means that they possess neither a chequing nor a savings account.

Over the past year, household credit has increased by around 20 per cent, and with the value of housing loan approvals continuing to rise over recent months, there seems little prospect for a near - term slowing in the pace of growth.

Currently, credit to the household sector is growing at an annual rate of about 20 per cent, well in excess of what could be considered sustainable in the medium to longer term (see the chapter on «Credit Growth» for a detailed discussion).

This was particularly the case in Korea, where policy initiatives aimed at restraining household borrowing contributed to a decline in consumption of 2 per cent in the March quarter.

As a result, household gearing — the ratio of debt to assets — increased to around 15 per cent in the March quarter.

The debt - servicing ratio reached 7.6 per cent of household disposable income in the March quarter (Graph 22).

Total household assets rose by 6 per cent over the year to the December quarter 2004 (Table 7), in line with income but well below the average of previous years.