Sentences with phrase «cent of households own»

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

Home buying intentions are strongest in Calgary and Halifax, where 10 per cent of households reported they are ready to buy a home.

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.

«Intentions to buy are up from 2005 when five per cent of households were ready to buy a home.

«Consumer intentions across the five major markets surveyed remain strong, with eight per cent of households thinking seriously about buying a home this year,» says Bob Dugan, chief economist at CMHC, in a news release.

Purchase intentions are also strong in Vancouver and Toronto, where eight per cent of households are ready to buy, while the share is slightly lower in Montreal (7 per cent), says the survey.

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 2001, there were close to one million Aboriginal people in Canada accounting for 3.4 per cent of all households.

There has been a five - per - cent increase in the need for food assistance since 2011, and 47 per cent of households requesting this help are families with children, says KWAR.

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

SCL undertook a behavioural research programme targeting over 75 per cent of households to assist the client in not only identifying the correct battlegrounds, but also the right audiences, messages and most importantly, the right castes to target,» said one document.

SCL undertook a behavioural research programme targeting over 75 per cent of households to assist the client in not only identifying the correct battlegrounds, but also the right audiences, messages and most importantly, the right castes to target,» a document said.

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.

The Australian Bureau of Statistic reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems — up from about 5 per cent back in 2011, when the ABS first started publishing statistics on solar.

In Scotland, 23 per cent of households have at least one cat, which is an estimated cat population of approximately 900,000.

One fifth of Canadian households are now cellphone - only, the regulator said, while 14 per cent of households have only landline phones.

The report says 12 per cent of households are highly indebted — and they carry about 40 per cent of the country's overall household debt load.

One study from February 2015 suggested 17 per cent of households were not saving enough for retirement.

In the United States, for instance, 80 per cent of stock is owned by the wealthiest 10 per cent of households.

It suggests that an estimated 30 to 40 per cent of households with mortgages are accelerating their payments.

Nationally, 85 per cent of households are offered a place at their first - choice school.

Only 35 per cent of households opt to make just one choice and only 39 per cent of households simply nominate their closest school.

Last year, economist Marc Lee at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-profit organisation in Ottawa, Canada, analysed data from the collection of a carbon tax in British Columbia, and concluded that the top 1 per cent of households have carbon emissions three times the provincial average.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

«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.

He said 40 per cent of households continued to lack broadband and the number of connections actually decreased in the last year.

Under Labour, the poorest 10 per cent of households have gained by 13 per cent, while the richest 10 per cent have lost by almost 9 per cent.

The top 0.1 per cent of households have increased their share of national income from 2 per cent in 1980 to almost 10 per cent today.

True to form, 60 per cent of households headed by someone aged 16 - 25 have wealth below # 150,000 — but so too do 40 per cent of households headed by someone aged 35 - 44.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

The German discount supermarket chain has served approximately 10 million South Australian shoppers and 30.7 per cent of households have visited an Aldi store.

Only 2 per cent of households with children that have one adult working full - time and one part - time are in poverty — and that is despite the UK's extremely high housing costs caused by planning policies.

About eight per cent of households owe 350 per cent of gross income, representing about 20 per cent of all debt, Poloz said.

«Furthermore, owner - occupiers represent only fifty - six per cent of households, the country fortuitously avoided a housing boom pre-2008 (which kept supply tight) and mortgage lending still only accounts for around thirty - five per cent of GDP, making it one of Europe's least indebted nations.

The 2016 figures showed a further worsening of Hong Kong's wealth gap, as the richest 10 per cent of households - with a median monthly income of HK$ 112,450 - earned 44 times more than the poorest 10 per cent making an average of HK$ 2,560.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development defines a property as unaffordable if more than 30 per cent of a household's income is required to afford housing - related costs.

(1) This figure greatly exceeds the recommended 32 per cent of household monthly income that the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation deems affordable.

According to Vancity, based on the average income of Vancouverites, the average property now requires more than 48 per cent of household monthly income.

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

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).

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.

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

Including interest on other forms of household borrowing, total interest costs now stand close to 8 per cent of household income.

This has encouraged housing equity withdrawal, which amounted to 6 per cent of household disposable income in the June quarter (Graph 10).

Revised data now suggest that the debt - servicing ratio reached 8.7 per cent of household disposable income in the September quarter, and it is likely to have surpassed its late - 1980s peak in the December quarter (Graph 27; see «Box B» for further discussion of the debt - servicing ratio).