Among current renters who want to buy their first home in the near future, nearly half (48 %) now believe they can afford a down payment; this represents a gradual growth in the past four quarters and a 14
percent point confidence surge form the Spring 2016 level of 34 %
Not exact matches
The tepid
confidence level is somewhat at odds with how business owners view their current financial situations — 67
percent gave their situation a rating of good, the same as the prior quarter and an increase of two percentage
points compared with the second quarter of 2015.
New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44
percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of
confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest
point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.
The sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage
points at the 95
percent confidence level, whatever that means.
Upstate business
confidence is at its lowest
point since 2012, with 87
percent of businesses stating they have little - to - no
confidence that state government will improve the climate for businesses over the next year.
The overall estimate indicated that an increase in the lifetime average blood lead concentration of 1 μg per deciliter was associated with a change of — 0.46 IQ
point (95
percent confidence interval, — 0.76 to — 0.15).
That is, we can say with 95
percent confidence that the effect of a 10 - percentage -
point increase in the private school share is between 3.9 and 14.2
percent of a standard deviation in test scores.
In addition, using a 95 %
confidence interval (which is very common in educational statistics) researchers found that in mathematics, a teacher's true score would span 48
points, «a margin of error that covers nearly half the 100
point score scale,» whereby «one would be 95
percent confident that the true math score of a teacher who received a score of 50 [would actually fall] between 26 and 74.»
Notice that the 75
percent confidence intervals in Figure 4 are centered on the same
point estimates as are the 95
percent confidence intervals in Figure 1.
The margin of sampling error was + / -3 percentage
points with a 95
percent level of
confidence.
The total margin of error on weighted data for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage
points at the 95
percent confidence level.
In turn,
confidence in the economy's direction rose to a survey all - time high in April (hitting 37
percent, an increase of 2 percentage
points from last month).
The survey showed that
confidence in the economy's direction rose to the highest
point in the survey's two - year history this month, hitting 37
percent, an increase of 2 percentage
points from last month.
While Americans»
confidence in the direction of the economy has been the most pronounced (35
percent think that the economy is on the right track, up 19 percentage
points since November, and 57
percent think the economy is on the wrong track, down 18 percentage
points since November), their
confidence about personal financial situations, household income, and household expenses, as well as attitudes about homeownership and renting is holding at steady levels.
• A full 70
percent of respondents have some degree of
confidence that property values will improve over the next two years; with an eight -
point increase in those very confident or confident compared to last year.
The rise in
confidence in the economy's direction continued this month, with 35
percent responding that they think the economy is on the right track, a 5 percentage
point increase from January.
Overall, housing
confidence rose just 0.2
points from June through September, and it is up 1.9
percent since March, according to ValueInsured's index.
Eight in 10 American's, or 79
percent, say that homeownership is still a part of the American Dream, which is why ValueInsured [1] has ranked the Housing
Confidence Index score at 68.7 on a hundred -
point scale.
Unemployment has declined to 4.4
percent and consumer
confidence is at its highest
point in 15 years.
Last month, Fannie Mae — a perennially reliable source we trust — found a 5
percent -
point drop in Americans» home buying
confidence from a month prior, and an 8
percent -
point drop from a year ago.
During the same period, millennial first - time homebuyers, despite reports of the nationwide housing affordability crisis, increased their housing
confidence score from 57.1 to 59.1
percent (up 2.0
points).
From Q3 2017 to Q1 2018, the nationally tracked housing
confidence score for American homeowners fell from 76.9 to 74.3
percent (down 2.6
points) on the hundred -
point scale.
«This is proof of investor / developer
confidence in this sector's [strength],» he says,
pointing out that more than 29
percent of new speculative industrial product coming to market during the first three quarters of the year was leased by the time it was completed.
For results based on samples of this size, one can say with 95
percent confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus 5.6 percentage
points.