Sentences with phrase «per cent gap»

A recent Maclean's article highlighted a 26 per cent gap between full - time wages paid to men and women in Canada.

The school has a 9 per cent gap in expected progress in English and a 10 per cent gap in maths between pupil premium and non-pupil premium funded students, something that Mrs Skinner said Claydon was working hard to reduce further.

We see completely stable teaching teams containing examiners and with a history of accurate predictions experiencing a 20 per cent gap between A * - C predictions and results.

In 2010, 12.4 per cent achieved the benchmark of five or more A * to C grades, including English and maths, compared with 52.9 per cent of other pupils — a 40 per cent gap.

However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children reaching these levels compared with their peers.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

In the UK, there is an average 22 per cent gap in attainment between children receiving Free School Meals and their peers.

Four council areas also saw none of the poorest 20 per cent achieve this benchmark and East Renfrewshire saw a 31.5 per cent gap between rich and poor.

This was to be done by calculating the «critical load» of acid that each ecosystem could absorb without suffering damage and then aiming to reduce by 50 per cent the gap between that and the levels of acid fallout in 1980, the base year for the calculations.

They dropped the ’50 per cent gap reduction» formula for 11 zones with the most damaged soils, forests and lakes.

The remainder of Europe is now promised a 60 per cent gap reduction.

Not exact matches

Gap's net income fell 46.9 percent to $ 127 million, or 32 cents per share, for the first quarter ended April 30, in line in the average analyst estimate.

Gap — Gap reported adjusted quarterly profit of 61 cents per share, 3 cents a share above estimates.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

The income gap between the top one per cent and the rest of filers has widened over time, calculated in 2010 constant dollars.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

The 2016 figures showed a further worsening of Hong Kong's wealth gap, as the richest 10 per cent of households - with a median monthly income of HK$ 112,450 - earned 44 times more than the poorest 10 per cent making an average of HK$ 2,560.

Thus, at average wages and salaries, there is a significant gap to be filled by third pillar income to eliminate the difference between what is available from OAS, C / QPP and GIS, and a replacement rate target of 70 per cent.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

The politically sensitive goods trade gap with China dropped 11.6 per cent to $ US25.9 billion, which will probably do little to ease tensions between the United States and China.

The government took a stab at cross-border price differences in the 2013 budget when it eliminated tariffs on baby clothing and sports equipment — rates as high as 18 per cent for skates — to try to narrow the gap.

With the economy expected to resume above - potential growth in the near term, our expectation is that inflation will converge on 2 per cent as the output gap closes and the temporary effects of low oil prices and past exchange rate depreciation dissipate.

Although there is considerable uncertainty around the outlook, the Bank is projecting real GDP growth will slow to about 1 1/2 per cent and the output gap to widen in the first half of 2015.

Highest Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the 1990s.

This widening in the gap between fixed and variable housing rates is likely to have contributed to the pick - up in the proportion of borrowers choosing to take out fixed - rate housing loans: in November 2004, the latest available data, 11 per cent of new owner - occupier housing loan approvals were at fixed rates, up from 7 per cent three months earlier and the highest share since the beginning of 2004, which followed a period of monetary policy tightening (Graph 45).

Magna's voting results highlight a controversial gap in Canadian law, which allows directors to be elected despite winning less than 50 per cent voting support.

In other words, the Council wants an independent CIDB that will concern itself with only about 2 per cent of the infrastructure gap.

Mind the Travel Insurance Gap While 79 per cent of Canadians said they were planning to travel this year, packing travel insurance was not a priority.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Median pay for men in the Church of England's central office is # 45,072 pounds, compared to # 31,900 for women in the Church of England's central office; showing a 41 per cent pay gap.

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

In the «mid upper» job range, women make 9 per cent more than men but while for half of staff there is no gap in pay between men and women, there are significantly more women in junior roles than men.

In comparison, Asahi's share of the water market fell from 19 per cent in 2015 to 15 per cent in the first half of 2016, according to Deutsche Bank, as the price gap narrowed between its branded products, such as Cool Ridge, and CCA's brands.

This compares with a price gap of 30.2 per cent at Coles and 36.1 per cent at Woolworths when Choice compared a basket of private label goods in 2015.

In the March quarter, Woolworths» same - store food sales soared 4.5 per cent, the strongest growth since 2010, while Coles» same - store food sales slowed to 0.8 per cent, with the gap widening to 370 basis points.

The price gap between Coles» and Woolworths» private label brands and those at discounter Aldi has fallen as much as 70 per cent in two years, reflecting the major chains» $ 1.6 billion investment into reducing prices.

This compares with a price gap of 23 per cent when Choice conducted a similar survey two years ago, highlighting the major chains» strategy of neutralising competition from Aldi by trimming the prices of private label brands to appeal to bargain - hungry shoppers.

The price gap between CCA's core products and those of Pepsi / Schweppes has risen from 30 per cent in 2004 to 50 per cent last year, taking a toll on CCA's volumes.

So far about 450 of Metcash's 1500 retailers have agreed to participate in the Price Match program, reducing their prices by about 3 per cent to reduce the price gap with Woolworths and Coles.

Fonterra, which accounts for 20 per cent of total global dairy trade and is the second - largest milk processor in Australia, estimates the price gap between powders and other products has had a negative $ NZ800 million ($ 725.5 million) impact.

In Australia, the gap is about 10 per cent.

Just before the election, the gap between the two options was six per cent.

Second, the gap between the overall - majority goals is vast: anything between a Labour lead of 1 per cent and a Tory lead of 10 per cent is likely to give us a hung parliament.

These 306 voters represent 16 per cent of the remaining 1,900 — a far larger number than the tiny gap between the two main parties.

Opinion polling regularly shows that a substantial percentage — 73 per cent of people in 2004 — considers the gap between those with high and those with low incomes to be too large.29

There is an argument that Darling could close the gap between the 18 per cent capital gains tax rate and the new 50 per cent top rate of income tax.

Then we identified the marginal seats where the gap between the top two parties was less than 15 per cent, and the share of «left - behinds» was well above the national average.

The increase in the apprentice National Minimum Wage will halve the gap with the rate for 16 to 17 year olds, which will increase by two per cent, from # 3.79 to # 3.87 per hour.

In 2014/15 (the latest figures available), 17 per cent of the tax gap (some # 6.2 bn) was estimated to be down to this type of non-compliance.