Sentences with phrase «cent reporting lower»

The study revealed young people were significantly affected by stigmatisation, with 85 per cent reporting lower confidence and nearly three in five (59 per cent) reporting that their schoolwork suffered.

Not exact matches

Resources giant Rio Tinto has reported a 34 per cent drop in its underlying first half profit to $ US5.2 billion ($ A4.9 billion), with lower prices for iron ore and other commodities the main reason fo

The gains were enough to lower the unemployment rate to a 4 1/2 - year low of 7.4 per cent, a good sign in an otherwise lacklustre report.

RBC's wealth management division reported a 39 per cent increase in net income to $ 597 million from $ 167 million in the same quarter one year ago, in part reflecting a lower effective tax rate.

The report by McMaster University economics professor William Scarth argues that keeping the deficit at 0.5 per cent of GDP for the next three years could lower the unemployment rate by 0.4 per cent, or create the equivalent of 75,000 additional jobs.

Statistics Canada reported the key ratio crept lower as total household credit market debt, which includes consumer credit, mortgage and non-mortgage loans, increased 1.1 per cent in the fourth quarter to $ 2.13 trillion.

The report points to a recent survey that found 70 per cent of Lower Mainland residents are in favour of allowing ridesharing services to operate in B.C. and notes that the municipalities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Langley Township have all come out in favour of ridesharing in recent weeks.

Tesla's bonds dropped 4.5 cents on the dollar to 86.5 cents at 12:02 p.m. in New York, according to Trace, the bond price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after reaching their lowest price ever earlier Wednesday.

The Star reports Tuesday that BlackBerry has cut its smartphone production by another 10 per cent on top of a 50 per cent drop in June that lowered output to one million units a month.

Beleaguered jewellery firm PC Jeweller reversed its early losses and rallied over 32 per cent from the day's low after the company termed reports of arrest of MD and CEO Balram Garg by the CBI as «factually incorrect».

On March 31, domestic lentil stockpiles were 434,000 metric tons, down 54 per cent from a year earlier, and dry field peas fell 34 per cent to an seven - year low of 1 million tons, Statistics Canada said in a May 6 report.

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.

The REALTORS ® Association of Hamilton - Burlington (RAHB) reported 779 sales were processed through the RAHB Multiple Listing Service ® (MLS ®) System in February, 40.3 per cent fewer than the same month last year and 25.7 per cent lower than the 10 - year average for the month.

In line with this, the NAB survey reported that firms continue to anticipate low and steady inflation for final product and retail prices, both of which are expected to increase by 0.3 per cent in the December quarter.

On August 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. employers added another 209,000 jobs in July, dropping the unemployment rate to a 16 - year low of 4.3 per cent.

This survey confirmed what I was seeing in the therapy room, but nonetheless made disturbing reading: 49.8 per cent reported mental health problems as a result of their behaviour, such as anxiety and depression; 65 per cent struggled with low self - esteem; 70 per cent felt shame and 19.4 per cent had experienced a serious desire to commit suicide.

While in 1970, 25 per cent of income generally went for rent, today, according to National Low - Income Housing Coalition reports, that percentage for many renters, especially the poor, has doubled.

Moynihan's report hypothesised that these penalties increased the number of low - income black children born outside marriage — which then stood at 25 per cent.

We found that Council pension assets were often lower than 50 per cent of liabilities in our report Council Pensions: The # 53 billion black hole.

A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies released today suggests Britain is set to miss its legally binding target of reducing the number of children in poverty to ten per cent or lower by 2020.

This is up to 14 per cent lower than the emissions reported by previous assessments, including those by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC) in the US and the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) in the EU, which are the official data sources for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)-- providing scientific evidence for climate change policy negotiations in Paris later this year.

The moon's gravity is 17 per cent of Earth's, but it is also a strange environment; low gravity and unusual scenery explain why astronauts fell down even though they didn't report feeling out of sorts.

The report says 80 per cent of people with newly diagnosed hypertension under the ACC / AHA guideline would get no expected benefit in terms of cardiovascular disease risk reduction by lowering their blood pressure.

In fact, a World Health Organisation report found low fruit and vegetable intake is estimated to cause about 31 per cent of heart disease and 11 per cent of stroke worldwide.

Findings from Northumbria University show that under moderate stress, gum chewers had salivary cortisol levels that were 12 per cent lower than non-chewers, and also reported greater alertness.

The report, entitled «Low - Performing Students: why they fall behind and how to help them succeed», also found that 17 per cent of 15 year olds are underperforming in reading, as well as 15 per cent in science.

Fewer suicides were reported among women in secondary education, which means that the overall risk of suicide for female teachers was 31 per cent lower than the national average for women in England.

Additionally, the report suggests that long hours, paired with low starting pay a limited access to CPD creates a risk of teacher «burn out», with starting salaries for teachers in England 16 per cent lower than the OECD average.

While this is still a relatively low percentage, it represents a significant increase from the two per cent who reported it as their main priority in 2015.

«When viewed in the context of the number of Generalist Classroom Teachers working in schools, the estimated total number of unfilled positions at the time of the survey (0.6 per cent) is quite low,» the report says.

The report released by ACARA (the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) reveals 38 per cent of Year 10 students achieved at or above the proficient standard — significantly lower than the 44 per cent who achieved the standard in 2013 and 49 per cent who achieved it in 2010.

The report also revealed that the retention rate for students moving from first to second year has also fallen from 77 per cent in 2011 to 72 per cent in 2012, and students admitted with low ATARs are less likely to continue with their course.

In fact, according to BESA's Tablet and Connectivity report, the low cost and mobility of tablets has led to a forecast that in 2016, 37 per cent of all computer hardware in schools will be tablet devices: a 13 per cent increase on the predictions for 2015.

In its annual report published in December, education watchdog Ofsted criticised 16 local authorities for «underperforming» as less than 60 per cent of pupils attended good or outstanding secondary schools, and there were lower than national GCSE attainment and levels of expected progress.

CHICAGO (Feb. 27, 2018)-- A new report shows that Illinois» education funding system provides 78 cents to a low - income student for every dollar spent on a non-low-income student and remains the most regressive system in the nation.

The previous Funding Gaps report showed that Illinois spent 81 cents on a low - income student for every dollar spent on a non-low-income student.

Drugmaker Merck & Co. is reporting lower first - quarter results and cutting its 2013 profit forecast by 15 cents a share.

The real estate firm Zillow reported 30 - year fixed mortgage rates of around 3.40 per cent Tuesday, near the all - time average weekly lows.

He reports that a portfolio containing stocks with the lowest 10 per cent of multiples (the value decile), rebalanced each year, returned an average of 12.50 per cent annually from 1951 to 2013.

He says the 6.4 per cent hike is lower than the 20 per cent rate hike that was recommended by the report commissioned by the previous government and released in July 2017.

Meantime, last month, a 10 - percent dip in Lower Mainland home sales offset a 14 - per - cent increase across the rest of the province, reports B.C. Real Estate Association chief economist Cameron Muir.

According to the report, around 80 per cent of home loan borrowers and 70 per cent of home loans (by value) would meet the criteria for lower risk weights set by the RBI and thereby benefit from the change in regulation.

While prices for ski equipment, lift passes, ski school, meals and drinks have dropped six per cent to # 325, the low cost of ski tuition — under half that in nine other resorts — was the key factor enabling the Slovenian resort to power past Bulgaria's Bansko (# 352), a six time winner in the annual report.

Rockstar North, developers of Grand Theft Auto IV and V alongside scores of others, has reported that the mean hourly rate for women is 64 per cent lower than for men.

Dr North has searched the WWF's reports high and low but can find no evidence of a statement to support the IPCC's claim that «40 per cent» of the Amazon is threatened by climate change.

According to the report, if Canada had adopted some key provincial policies in 2008, emissions would be 77 - million tonnes lower by 2020, bringing us close (within 5.6 per cent) to the international emissions target.

The report makes a compelling economic and social case for investing two per cent of global GDP in greening ten central sectors of the economy in order to shift development and unleash public and private capital flows onto a low - carbon, resource - efficient path.

The report says «a house with a 3kWh battery and a 4kW PV system could to lower its electricity consumed from the grid by 50 - 60 per cent.»

«Professor Mike Schlesinger, of the University of Illinois, reported that the shutdown of the Gulf Stream, once seen as a «low probability event», was now 45 per cent likely this century, and 70 per cent probable by 2200.»

Picking up on comment 36 (and at least I appreciate how like the BBC RealClimate.org does at least take criticism seriously and respectfully and I appreciate that) you write that the models in question only give predictions for 2200, however this is not what the London Independent reported; it stated: «Professor Mike Schlesinger, of the University of Illinois, reported that the shutdown of the Gulf Stream, once seen as a «low probability event», was now 45 per cent likely this century, and 70 per cent probable by 2200 ″