Sentences with phrase «figure by the number of people»

This measure, which is less widely used, adds up all of the incomes of the people surveyed and divides that figure by the number of people counted.

Economists can approximate a market price by asking people how much they would pay to preserve this landscape and multiplying the figure by the number of people who would be willing to pay it.

Not exact matches

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Montevideo (AFP)- The number of people registering to buy newly legalized marijuana in Uruguay jumped by almost 50 percent in the first week of sales, according to official figures released Wednesday.

Figures released by German's Labor Ministry showed the number of people without shops rose by 4,000 in April, having risen by 12,000 in March.

The average audience figures given by Nielsen therefore may be lower than the total number of people who see a particular syndicated religious program during the time of its broadcast.

I also spent a descent number of hours trying to figure out how I got invited because I honestly didn't feel worthy being surrounded by such awesome, cool people in such a spectacular place.

Padma is an extremely popular name in Asia and has been adopted by an unusually large number of people who ended up as famous figures, be it in the entertainment industry, education field or the political arena.

Official figures showed that while the number of people employed in the UK public sector fell by 324,000, private sector employment was up by 823,000.

The number of homeless people sleeping on the streets has doubled since the coalition came to power in 2010 and has soared by 30 % in the last year alone, new figures released today reveal.

People point to the worrying figures about the numbers of journalists that have been laid off (with net newsroom employment down by more than 10,000 since 2007), the difficulties facing city and state newspapers, and to the dramatic decline of ad revenues.

• The total number of drink - drive accidents rose by 2 % to 5,740 in 2015 • There was a 3 % rise in overall drink - drive casualties on 2014 to 8,480 • Around 220 people were killed in drink driving related incidents, a figure unchanged since 2010, around 13 % of all deaths in reported road accidents in 2015.

The latest figures come after the National Audit Office (NAO) revealed in September that the number of people sleeping rough had soared by 134 per cent since the Conservative Party took power, prompting accusations from the spending watchdog that ministers have failed to tackle the problem.

The number of people losing their home rose by a fifth last year, as one of parliament's leading economists predicts the figure will rise further in 2008.

Figures released by the ONS just last week, showed a sharp increase in the number of people with long term illnesses and disabilities dropping out of the labour market altogether.

New figures published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of people wishing to study in the UK long - term have fallen to their lowest level since 2007, following a 16 % fall in applications to study at further education and other institutions last year.

The number of young people applying for places at university has fallen by almost 12 % ahead of next September, when tuition fees will rise to # 9,000, official figures show.

The number of people hit by the benefit cap has trebled in three months, according to government figures published today.

The plan, which aims to reduce the number of old people being admitted to nursing homes, has the backing of senior government figures and has been welcomed by Neighbourhood Watch groups.

Latest ABI figures show that the number of people covered by Private Medical Insurance (PMI) continued to rise in 2008 despite the UK economy going into recession.

The number of people covered by Private Medical Insurance (PMI) broke the six million mark for the first time in five years, according to latest figures from the ABI (Association of British Insurers).

UKIP's interim leader warned there are bridges that need to be built between the UK and Trump, saying: «let's be honest, there are plenty of people in Trump's team who are less than impressed at many of the things that have been said by senior government figures and senior staffers in Number 10 [during the election campaign].

The figures showed the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance fell for the second month in a row by 15,200 to 1.61 million.

The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance fell last month by 32,900 to 1.54 million, the fourth time the figure has fallen in the last five months.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the mapping tool has provided accurate estimates of the number of affected workers by race, ethnicity, industry or other characteristics, to figure out which groups of people or types of businesses were most in need of aid.

No figures exist for the total number of people affected by all individual PID and SID disorders but some estimates are as follows:

The usual potted history is offered, from 1960s computer dating (erroneously called «early internet dating» by Ansari — there was nothing online about those IBM mainframe, punchcard - operated services), to lonely hearts ads with their complicated, expensive voice mail services and video dating in the 1980s, followed by the emergence of Match.com in 1995 and the amazing numbers of people who use internet dating (here he reproduces the stale 2013 figure that a third of American marriages today began online; Pew recently drastically downsized the figure to say that only five per cent of married Americans have met online).

I hate to get heavy here, and ruin your buzz, but alarming figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

Figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

Figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 percent in five years.

Des Mannion, head of NSPCC, said: «As these figures reveal, the pressure to do well is being felt by an increasing number of young people.

Figures released from the admissions service Ucas has shown that the number of people training to be teachers has dropped by 6.9 per cent.

Figures released by UCAS in May show that the number of people applying for teacher training places has continued to fall 12 per cent compared with the previous year, down to just under 34,000.

Take those figures and multiply them by the number of people estimated to hold federal and private student loans, and the magnitude of debt becomes evident: More than 40 million individuals collectively owe upward of $ 1.2 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Figures released today by Cats Protection, the UK's leading feline welfare charity, show an ever decreasing number of people coming forward to adopt cats, while the number of people needing to give up a cat or report a stray is on the rise.

The F1 Grand Prix is the latest coup for the Abu Dhabi, which has achieved record hotel guest numbers in the first nine months of this year with figures just released by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority showing some 1,741,330 people stayed in the emirate's 131 hotels and hotel apartments during the period.

According to TUC figures, the number of people spending more than two hours travelling to and from work every day has jumped by 72 per cent over the past decade to more than three million.

But I recognize the number of people who claim to have it all figured out, is by definition, much higher than the number of people who can possibly come up with the right answer, unless they come up with the same answer.

Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 between 2020 - 2030 compared to 2005 - 2015

I gave the page and figure numbers as they appear in the text of the edition I possess, which, to judge by other people's references, is the same text (with the same numbers) as in all other editions.

As pointed out here by Scott Greenfield on his Simple Justice blog, Gradeless appears to have found a way to monetize his massive following on Twitter through a service called Sponsored Tweets, which hooks «Tweeters» like Gradeless up with advertisers who want to reach their supposedly vast audiences (although as discussed here, a person's numbers of Twitter followers can be a pretty meaningless figure).

This is accompanied by figures showing that the numbers of people making claims for compensation has been falling.

If it may be thought that any error was entailed in the Court's perception of jurisdiction, such an apprehension by itself, would not justify the reversal of the Macharia Ruling, a decision which, as we must take judicial notice, will have established itself as a mark of certainty and predictability in the law,... on the basis of which numbers of people will have figured out their rights and expectations.

During my time with the device, I was approached by a number of people eager to figure out exactly what I was tapping away on.

2009 saw record numbers of university leavers and new figures show more than 660,000 people have applied for a university place for the next academic year. This staggering amount is up by 12 per cent from last year, once again breaking the record for the number of university applicants. With these figures on the rise, the coalition government have made an extra 10,000 university places to support the hefty amount of applications, meaning more students than ever will be graduating with degrees in the coming years. It is becoming even harder for employers to recruit graduates when they simply can not distinguish who is more qualified for the job â $ «how does one chose between the graduate with the 2:1 History degree from Durham or the 2:1 English Literature graduate from Bristol?

Census figures released in July by Statistics Canada show the number of people aged 55 to 64, many of whom are approaching retirement, is at a record high of 3.7 million.