Sentences with phrase «on estimating percentage»

Fuel costs are calculated using the U.S. Government Environmental Protection Agency's estimated mileage figures (when available) for both highway and city driving, then adjustments are made based on the estimated percentage of mileage for these two types of driving.

Not exact matches

Previously, same - store sales growth represented the estimated percentage change in sales of all restaurants in the Company system that have been open for one year or more, and the base stores changed on a rolling basis from month to month.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

The GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

The topper — if it's included — is the offer of a percentage of ownership based on an overblown estimate of the company's value.

We estimate that the oil price shock, on its own, took about 1 1/4 percentage points off GDP growth in the first half of the year.

* Annual Percentage Rates (APR), loan term and monthly payments are estimated based on analysis of information provided by you, data provided by lenders, and publicly available information.

Asked about the basis for the $ 8.5 billion settlement, Kent Smith, a Pimco executive with experience in loan servicing, testified on June 7 that it came in part from an estimated percentage of problematic loans that was provided to the investors by Bank of America.

Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts» consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7 percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.

Morgan Stanley U.S. chief economist Ellen Zentner estimates that a 20 % broad - based tariff increase could, after four quarters, result in a 1 percentage point drag on real U.S. GDP growth.

We have based our calculation of the number of shares outstanding after the offering and the percentage of beneficial ownership after the offering on shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after the completion of this offering, including shares that we estimate will be issued pursuant to the 2014 Recapitalization assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share (the midpoint of the price range on the cover of this prospectus), and no exercise of the underwriters» overallotment option to purchase shares from the selling stockholders.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

Analyst Jamie Baker also cited pending cost increases, estimating a 55 cent effect on earnings per share and 5 percentage - point boost in costs for each seat flown a mile next year from expected new employee contracts.

Once a bank has built up a reputation of solidity, it will be fairly easy for it to just keep a fractional reserve at hand — this is to say, instead of actually warehousing the entire amount on deposit, it will only keep a certain percentage at hand that it estimates will suffice to satisfy withdrawal demands in the «normal course of business».

Tertiary Degree Graduates Aged 25 - 34 (in millions) Tertiary Degrees By Percentage of OECD And G20 Total * OECD estimate based on the same average annual growth rate as that observed between 2000 and 2009 + Germany and...

These figures are only estimates based on the available census figures and informed guesses as to the percentage of Muslims in the population.

By all estimates a higher percentage of members of Indian Christian churches attend services on a given Sunday than do Christians anywhere in the West.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

The estimated negative impact on net sales in the fourth quarter related to the recall and related production outages was approximately one percentage point.

It's important to remember that your due date is only an estimate — most babies are born between 38 and 42 weeks from the first day of their mom's LMP and only a small percentage of women actually deliver on their due date.

However, the authors cautioned that these percentages are estimates based on a small number of studies.

There is not enough information or research on the prevalence of implantation bleeding, and so it is not easy to estimate the percentage of expectant ladies that experience it.

What the new Q & A does not tell parents, but which I revealed in my first post on the issue, is that Chinese - processed chicken in any percentage may be used in school supper programs (which will feed an estimated 21 million children by 2015), in meals served by day care centers and even by schools for breakfasts and lunches — but in the latter two cases, only if it comes to pass that Chinese - processed chicken becomes reliably cheaper than domestically processed chicken.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

On average, registered voter polls of Senate races have had a 1.1 percentage - point Democratic bias in these years, we estimate, whereas likely voter polls have had a 0.7 - point Republican bias.

So a maximal percentage with 100 % fraud is easy to quantify, and you can use other data to estimate what percentage of non-citizens are voting on average and multiply the two to get a fairly decent, highly localized estimate.

While heaping plates of rehash were served up, Cahill did make the point that in his estimation Hein has more than enough in surplus stashed away to easily weather the estimated $ 6 million hit the part - year loss of a percentage point on the sales tax will cost the county.

This accounts for the large percentage of the state population taken up by New York City and its suburbs (usually estimated at about 60 %, depending on which counties are included as suburbs).

Another study estimated, based on U.S. Census Bureau data, that the number of people with Alzheimer's will nearly triple by 2050 — and the percentage of seniors with dementia will creep upward.

First, participants were asked to estimate what percentage of the federal budget was spent on scientific research.

Based on the pharmacists» responses of how many custom - compounded HT prescriptions they fill and the average percentage of compounding reported by the National Community Pharmacists Association and industry market research firm IBISWorld, the researchers estimated that 26 to 36 million total prescriptions custom - compounded HT were filled last year.

If percentages were to be estimated then they would be based on: 65 % from fat, 5 % from carbohydrates and 30 % from protein.

Percentage of Americans with Inadequate Nutrient Intake from Food (based on Estimated Average Requirements)

It is often estimated based on body weight (0.8 - 1.8 grams / kg of body weight), as a percentage of total caloric intake (10 - 35 %), or based on age alone.

Additional Contributions: Victor Kipnis, PhD (Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI), provided advice on using the NCI method to estimate the usual percentage of total calories from added sugar and its association with CVD mortality with data from the NHANES III Linked Mortality Files.

For example, there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of seniors on Match.com and I would estimate that only a small percentage of those seniors know about SeniorPeopleMeet.com.

You'll see a calculated match percentage in the corner of the profile summary, but that just estimates how much you have in common based on your profile — it doesn't mean you can't hit it off with someone with a 60 % match rating.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

• Among students using the voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact on full - time college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.

Figure 2 presents our estimates of the effects of NCLB accountability on the percentage of students achieving at or above the basic and proficient performance levels on NAEP.

The final estimate of the International Comparison of Productivity, released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), confirms that output per hour in the UK lagged 18 percentage points behind the G7 average in 2014, and a staggering 36 percentage points behind Germany.

We estimate that improvement from the 25th to the 75th percentile of test - score change — that is, moving from a loss of 4 percentile points to a gain of 3.8 percentile points between 1999 and 2000 — produced on average an increase of 3 percentage points in an incumbent's vote share.

Our estimates suggest that an increase of 20 percentage points in the likelihood that a teacher places on a student completing college leads to an increase in the eventual college attainment of about 3 percentage points, increasing the attainment rate to 48 percent from the base rate of 45 percent.

The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group (see Figure 1).

Estimating the Percentage of U.S. Elementary and Secondary Students Assessed on Deeper Learning Through State Achievement Tests

This report presents the results of a project to estimate the percentage of U.S. elementary and secondary students being assessed on deeper learning skills through statewide mathematics and English language arts achievement tests at the beginning of the Deeper Learning Initiative.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

Yuan, Kun and Vi - Nhuan Le, Estimating the Percentage of Students Who Were Tested on Cognitively Demanding Items Through the State Achievement Tests.