Sentences with phrase «per cent of the person at»

In Australia bipolar disorder affects approximately 1.3 per cent of people at some point in their lifetime.

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The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

The number of elderly people - at 1.16 million - rose 2.6 per cent to 15.9 per cent of the total population between 2011 and 2016.

The company had already announced 300 people were being laid off at its head office in Waterloo this week as part of a broader plan that will reduce its global workforce by about 40 per cent.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

Dividends on its $ 3bn of preferred stock will be taxed at the 35 per cent rate for foreign dividends, rather than the 14 per cent rate that would prevail in the US, according to people familiar with the arrangements.

Currently, there is a compassionate care benefit available to people caring for a family member near the end of life, but the new benefit would offer 15 weeks of leave — at 55 per cent salary — when caring for a loved one with any serious illness or injury.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Ms Scobie agreed that the 1 per cent increase in the group's interim and full - year COR «could» be information that a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or value of its shares, but maintained that it did not have the relevant information at the time of its upbeat AGM.

Let's look at the two tables below in which two people secured a loan of $ 10,000 each at fixed interest rates of 12 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.

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.

Taking into account viewing duplication and correcting for the fact that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 per cent, the study says that the number of people who have watched at least one - quarter hour of religious television per week is about 13.3 million, or 6.2 per cent of the national television audience.

«The time for the great reversal is at hand,» conclude Hartford Seminary sociologists David Roozen and William McKinney, whose recent study indicates that 42 per cent of the baby - boom generation are returning to church (reported in the January 21, 1987, issue of the Lutheran) Many people between the ages of 18 and 35 who attended church only occasionally before 1970 are now attending regularly, their survey shows.

I discovered the people harvesting the sugar cane with the hatchet and machete were being paid less than 80 cents per ton of sugar cane harvested and they were not paid in money, they were paid in vouchers that could only be redeemed at the company store.

The fish catch had been growing at a record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person fell by 13 per cent or over 1 per cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

And even though Christians constitute only about 2.5 per cent of India's population, that is an enormous number of people in a nation of at least 750 million.

«We are getting a proliferation of people applying for [wine producers] licences and they can then go out and buy grapes, contract made, contract bottled and effectively sell it to the retail market at cost and claim a 29 per cent rebate back from the government.»

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

In the US, recent research found that 70 per cent of people are now swapping meat for a non-meat protein at least once a week, with 22 per cent saying they were more likely to do so than last year.

Only 247 out of 1,207 people employed at the Stratford venue in February 2017 were from Newham — equating to 20.5 per cent -LSB-...]

People unconsciously recognise that the baton is being handed to them when the speaker gazes over more than 80 per cent of the time at the listener, when the speaker trails off, or when the speaker says a turn - ender such as «you know» or «isn't it?»

A YouGov poll found that 47 per cent of people look at the country of origin on a food label, more than double the number (22 %) who look at nutritional information.

Once you take all those people away, you are left with just eight per cent of people who are not already voting Tory and for whom the issue has at least the potential to swing their vote.

But as the Government has trebled tuition fees, the number of people applying higher education in the creative arts at university fallen by 16 per cent.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

The research by Professor Christina Victor of Brunel University, found very few, at best five to ten per cent of the older people within these communities who were interviewed received any form of formal care, apart from health services, from the wider community or government.

A third of people suspect that Mr Miliband was bullied at school, and only 16 per cent thought he was popular

At the local authority level, the People Before Profit Alliance won nearly ten per cent of all the votes cast in Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown (9.8 %), with the next best result coming in Dublin City (6.9 %).

(BBC) and «Ministers have expressed «disappointment» at statistics showing fewer young people from poor backgrounds are going to university... The data for 2004/05 showed that while the total number of students from all groups rose, the proportion from poorer backgrounds fell from 28.6 to 28.2 per cent.»

Four out of 10 people (41 per cent) who voted Conservative at last year's general election back licensed sales of cannabis, only just below the level of support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip voters.

Indeed, every single one of the schools Lord Harris has taken over gets at least an additional twenty per cent or more young people to pass five good GCSEs compared to the record when the Local Authority ran it.

Looking specifically at people who moved over from Incapacity Benefit following an assessment, fewer than four per cent of people have found sustained work after two years on the Work Programme.

Local road pricing schemes received even less support in the survey, with 51 per cent of people claiming they were against the idea, with the north east of England showing the highest level of opposition at 72 per cent.

Eighty per cent per cent of British people want the government to take a more active role in helping those at risk of having their homes repossessed, according to an Ipsos MORI study for St Mungo's.

Last year 950,000 people claimed jobseekers» allowance (JSA), but his comments are focused on the 12 per cent who have been claiming unemployment benefits for at least six of the last seven years.

And once you strip away all of these categories, the amount of money spent on what most people would label «welfare» - unemployment benefit - is vanishingly small at less than one per cent of all government spending.

«We're banging people up at vast expense, half of them are on drugs, over ten per cent per cent aren't meant to be here at all because they're foreigners, and the reoffending rate is dreadful.

Or people we have traditionally been able to rely on are staying at home, disillusioned with our perceived priorities — last year, only 15 per cent of people voted for a Police Crime Commissioner.

For example over 25,000 people will be subject to the triple whammy of losing their ESA (through changes that time limit it), DLA (through PIP reform), and having their ESA uprating capped at one per cent (before they lose it), a loss worth up to # 23,000 over the five years.

«But some figures show up to 50 per cent of people having interest in light spanking or bondage, so presumably a significant proportion of the population would look at that kind of pornography.

• Offline evidence (two per cent): A small number of tweets were eyewitness accounts of crimes they had witnessed or were aware of happening offline:» @metpoliceuk yesterday in coach leaving from London Victoria at 10 pm to Birmingham a person was openly racist towards another individual.»

In February 2015, he was reported as saying even though about 90 per cent of Ghana's natural resources were concentrated in the five mainly Akan - speaking regions, it is rather people who come from resource - poor regions who were at the helm of affairs at the time he made those alleged comments.

The # 43,888 - a-year ceiling on national insurance contributions (NICs) would be abolished, so people earning more would pay NICs at 11 per cent on all their income above that level, instead of the current 1 per cent.

«I think a 50 per cent tax rate at # 150,000 is actually in the centre ground of politics, because I think that one of the things people thought about us, as a Labour government, was that we were behind where the public was on some of the excesses we have seen in society.

John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, points out that the number of people who think taxes should be cut, even if it means a reduction in services such as health, education and welfare, has risen from 20 to 27 per cent since 2005, while the number who want to extend services has dropped from 40 to 29 per cent.

«Surveying over 10,000 people, the poll gives an insight into voting intentions for the next Scottish elections, opinions of party leaders and achievements of the Scottish Parliament, while putting support for independence at 26 per cent, the no vote at 65 per cent and just 10 per cent undecided.»

Fifty - eight per cent of people who voted Liberal Democrat at the last election wouldn't again.

According to the World Health Organization, older adults who live at home face disproportionally high fatality rates during natural disasters as evidenced by Hurricane Katrina where 71 per cent of the deaths resulting from that disaster involved people over 60 years of age.

When Thompson's team looked at brain scans of 206 healthy people aged 70 to 80, they found that those with at least one copy of the FTO variant had 8 per cent less volume in their frontal lobes and 12 per cent less in the occipital lobes, compared with their counterparts lacking the variant.

Seventy per cent of the samples were from people aged 20 to 29 at the time.