Sentences with phrase «drop by a percentage point»

Although the average car loan is 72 months or longer, ask for a 48 - month term and the interest rate will drop by a percentage point or two.

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The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»

In 2009, the average APR on all mature accounts (adjusted to reflect the drop in the prime rate) increased by 2.4 percentage points from 2008.

Although companies have been quick to talk about the benefits of tax reform — most expect their tax rates to drop by 6 to 7 percentage points — many have been opaque about how they intend to use those savings.

Improving your credit score by 40 points can drop half a percentage point from your rate, depending on the loan you pick and other parameters.

Adjusted gross margin fell by 3 percentage points to 33.8 % of sales and operating margin dropped to 17.4 % of sales from 18.8 % a year ago.

These traditions have seen their market share of millennials drop by 8.4, 7.3, and 2.2 percentage points, respectively.

The proportion of Americans who say they know an evangelical dropped by 9 percentage points from 2014 to 2017, down to 61 percent today.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

And while CPS» lunch and breakfast participation rates have dropped since the introduction of healthier menus this year, rates are up at Holy Trinity by 14 percentage points since Boundas arrived.

A Wall Street Journal / Marist College poll found Gov. Cuomo's job approval rating dropped to 42 percent, and tumbled by 21 percentage points among Latino voters.

Greenberg said the biggest decline in those numbers came once again from downstate, where the percentage of people who want Cuomo to serve a third term as governor dropped by 27 points.

On who will run the economy better, the Conservative lead has dropped from 17 points a month ago to only 4 points now, but their own percentage has dropped by only 3 points; the big shift was Labour gaining at the expense of «neither».

In New York City, Cuomo declined by 17 percentage points, and among non-whites, he dropped 22 percentage points.

In New York, the unemployment rate has fallen by 1.9 percentage points, or tied for the 34th biggest drop among the 50 states over that period.

Dropping an unexpected political bomb on the Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, who won re-election last November by about 30 percentage points, announced Tuesday, Jan. 6 that he would not run for re-election in 2016.

A new study shows that the proportion of those patients who lacked insurance dropped by nearly 4 percentage points, and the proportion covered by Medicaid rose more than 6 points, within three months of the launch of the Healthy Michigan Plan in April 2014.

«Ten years ago we tested a similar mailing that didn't talk about participation being mandatory [and] the self - response rate dropped by 20 percentage points, from about 50 % to 30 %,» Treat says.

Despite that game's impressive score, Sony saw its Metascore average drop by over three points over the past year, while its percentage of games receiving positive reviews fell from 54 % to 43 %.

In 2016, UK schools saw a disappointing decline in A * - C grades at GCSE level, with the proportion of pupils who gained a C grade or above dropping by 2.1 percentage points from the previous year.

Among Democrats, support increases by 12 percentage points, to 61 %, when the phrase «Common Core» is dropped.

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

The percentage of respondents who would have their child pursue a four - year degree drops by 7 points when only cost information is provided, and it increases by 8 percentage points when respondents receive only earnings information.

At first glance, our survey data would seem to confirm those fears: Support for charter schools dropped by 12 percentage points between 2016 and 2017, the largest change in opinion we observed on any item (Figure 1).

By the turn of the century, the graduation rate had dropped 7 percentage points -LSB-...]

We find that teachers near the threshold who received their first «minimally effective» rating at this time were considerably more likely to exit DCPS voluntarily, with retention dropping by 10 percentage points in 2011 12 (see Figure 2).

Democratic support for federal decision - making has dropped by 8, 6, and 7 percentage points, respectively.

For the nation as a whole, overall support for higher spending levels dropped by 8 percentage points (from 46 to 38 percent) when respondents were informed of actual per - pupil expenditures in their own district.

◦ Trend: Public backing for universal vouchers has dropped by six percentage points since 2014.

◦ Trend: Public support for school vouchers targeted toward low - income families has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2012 — a major shift in public opinion.

Between 2012 and 2016, Republican backing fell by 14 percentage points; among Democrats, the drop is 9 percentage points.

When informed about actual average teacher salaries in their state, respondents» support for higher salaries dropped by 16 percentage points (from 56 to 40 percent).

But when they were asked about the «common core» specifically, support dropped by 15 percentage points.

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.

By the turn of the century, the graduation rate had dropped 7 percentage points from its high - water mark of 77 percent in 1969.

Among those asked the question that does not mention Common Core, the 16 - percentage - point drop between 2014 and 2015 has been followed by a recovery of 2 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, suggesting possible stabilization of opinion.

On the contrary, they show that entering a middle school in 6th grade increases the probability of dropping out of high school by grade 10 by 18 percent (1.4 percentage points).

However, their support dropped by 12 percentage points when told of the President's opposition.

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

The portion who thinks that teachers unions have had a positive effect on their local schools has dropped by 7 percentage points over the past year.

Support drops by another 11 percentage points — to just 24 percent — when those interviewed were first told how much was currently being spent.

We found that more students in the phase - out cohort left their school before 12th grade, with the percentage of students still in their 9th - grade school at the end of 12th grade dropping by 6.9 percentage points to 48.8 percent, from 41.9 percent.

Support for increased spending on our standard question drops by 20 percentage points, a much bigger drop than what was observed in 2009, when support for increased spending fell only 8 percentage points (from 46 percent to 38 percent).