Sentences with phrase «national average levels»

Students consistently achieve outstanding results, performing well in literacy and numeracy tests when compared with national average levels and other statistically similar schools.

Responding to animal welfare complaints is difficult for many agencies because according to the US Department of Justice our level of certified rural law enforcement is just over half the national average level of staffing; predictably animal welfare takes a back seat.

Not exact matches

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

On a 10 - point scale, Americans age 18 - 33 report an average stress level of 5.4 compared to the national average of 4.9.

By the end of 2015, the homicide rate in Guerrero reached 56.5 per 100,000 residents, which was four times the national average of 14.07 killings per 100,000 people, according to state - level data gathered by the Mexican government.

The findings chime with data from the Office of National Statistics released last month that showed that UK household spending remained level at an average of # 528.90 a week in the financial year ending 2016, unable to rise above pre-crisis levels.

In nine years of full independence, the gross national product has nearly tripled — raising the average per capita income to a level exceeded in Asia only by that of Japan.

There's more to Atlanta than Outkast and Georgia peaches — the city's cost of living is astonishingly low, with food and gas prices hitting the same level or lower than national averages.

To determine the national average wage index for 2016 at a level that is consistent with the national average wage indexing series for prior years, we multiply the 2015 national average wage index of 48,098.63 by the percentage change in average wages from 2015 to 2016 (based on our tabulated wage data).

Prices at the pump are already at the lowest level of the year, with the national average price for gasoline at $ 3.24 a gallon.

Housing prices followed suit, with the national average home price actually dropping back down to 1989 levels.

Given its pervasiveness in our lives — most studies indicate that the average citizen watches over 20 hours a week — it is important that research on a national and impartial level be undertaken, so that we can understand TV's effects.

Median household income is $ 41,326, compared to the national median of $ 52,762, and 21.5 % of the individuals in the district are below the poverty level, compared to the 14.3 % national average.

Nutritional recommendations are based on national nutrition recommendations published few years earlier and presented in school meal recommendations as for the energy and nutritional content of school meals on average per one meal on weekly level (i.e., one single meal can deviate from the recommendation as long as weekly average is maintained.)

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

«We are talking about children and families who have have PFOA levels far exceeding the national average and Kemp Hannon has done nothing.

If we brought their productivity levels up to even just the national average, it would add # 70 to # 90 billion to our economy every year.

The skills levels of Liverpool City Region's workforce remain lower than the national average.

Nearly three - in - four government employees at the state and local level work under a collectively bargained contract — almost double the national average of 39 percent.

To be clear, every school district in New York is funded at a level above the national average.

According to Ememobong, it was ridiculous for a senator who performs below average to state that it was the division of the PDP at the national level that impelled him to quit the party.

Two months ago, the health department revealed that 2,000 blood tests from the wider region, which includes residents who moved away years ago and those not drinking from polluted wells, had blood levels 15 times higher than the national average.

The fact sheet was published as the state revealed his week that those consuming tainted water from Hoosick Falls» municipal water supply had PFOA blood levels more than 30 times higher than the national average.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

In New York City, which has asthma rates consistently higher than the national average, this bill would reduce sulfur levels from 2,000 parts per million to just 15 parts per million.

If temperatures return to more normal levels after two winters of abnormal warmth, the average heating bill across the Buffalo Niagara region is expected to jump by 26.5 percent — or about $ 123 — from last year's unusually affordable cost, according to National Fuel Gas Co..

One mother asked what she was supposed to tell her 17 - year - old son whose blood was tested and found to have a PFOA level 40 times the national average.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

Some residents have reported blood levels of 100 times, or even 500 times the national average.

Several of the named plaintiffs have levels of PFOA in their bodies significantly higher than the national average.

In Hoosick Falls, blood tests have found hundreds of residents with elevated levels of PFOA, some at more than 500 times the national average.

While Erie County's unemployment rate and levels of poverty are better than the state and national averages, not everyone is benefitting from our resurgent economy.

Truth is that most of those selling the change mantra after election have been less than average in their performances.At the national level, there is evident tardiness and inexplicable clumsiness.But the bulk of the mess rocking the party is at the level of thestates which incidentally are closer to the people.

Loreen Hackett, whose PFOA level is more than 125 times the national average, said she has been seeking an answer for months as to whether she can eat tomatoes grown in her yard.

Ten - year - old Hailey Bussey, whose PFOA blood level of 51.5 is 25 times the national average, carried a handwritten letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, asking why the administration «left us to die like sick kittens.»

He noted the level of access to WASH facilities in the district was estimated at 33 percent for sanitation and 65 percent for water far below the national average and appealed to the partners to fashion out interventions fast - track the process to enable the district achieve SDG 6, aimed at clean water and sanitation.

The heralded new NRSA minimum exceeds by only $ 384 the average starting salary of this year's new general liberal arts graduates at the bachelor's degree level and falls $ 10,921 short of the average for all new college graduates, according to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, as reported by the Associated Press.

Based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring from places as remote as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and as urban as New York City, scientists have created a map of noise levels across the country on an average summer day.

And there remains little doubt that average temperatures are getting warmer at ground level; data from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reveals that the last decade was the warmest since record - keeping began.

Average national costs were about $ 14,000 for a single - level ACDF procedure and $ 26,000 for a single - level PLF.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

National recommendations for the ideal level of calcium intake vary around the world, Balk said, but in most countries average intake is lower than recommended.

The results reveal that, after a comparison at national level, the vast number of substances tested show a clearly higher average consumption — thus more contaminant emissions — by private households than health care facilities.

The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry conducted blood tests in 2006 that revealed residents» blood dioxin levels were three times the national average.

In February 2018, the average atmospheric carbon dioxide level was 408 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, site of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration global greenhouse gas monitoring.

Later in life, however, the rates level off — dipping back under the national average when men hit 60 and women reach 65.

A total testosterone level of 15 may represent a «borderline low» level but it is not terribly low by national averages.

According to FDA Nutritional Information on Raw Fruits and USDA National Nutrient Database, these are the average sugar levels in commonly eaten foods in the American diet.

In fact, their aromatic brown rice, presumably their brown basmati and brown jasmine, average less than national white rice levels.