Sentences with phrase «percentage point gap at»

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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 graph below shows the percentage point gap was at 27.4 % for 2013 - 14, up from 26.9 % in 2012 - 13.

When looking at all GCSE subjects together, the gap between boys and girls at A * - A is at its widest at 6.7 percentage points (26.5 % of girls achieving A * - A compared to 19.8 % of boys) since the top grade was introduced in 1994.

SED found the achievement gap stands at about 20 percentage points, though it has been narrowed slightly over the last two years.

The study concluded finally that the Bradley effect was a real phenomenon, amounting to a median gap of 3.1 percentage points before 1996, but that it was likely not the sole factor in those discrepancies, and further that it had ceased to manifest itself at all by 1996.

The «attainment gap», categorised as the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils, is the largest for Irish and white British teenagers, standing at 46 percentage points and 32 percentage points respectively.

Districtwide, fewer than 30 percent of African American students were reading at grade level, compared to 87 percent of whites, a 57 - percentage - point gap.

In 2016, the north ‑ east had a sharp drop in entries, with the proportion of pupils entering at least on arts subject ranging from 57.3 per cent in the south ‑ west and 47.8 per cent in the north east — a gap of 9.5 percentage points.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

Once again, although sizable gender gaps are present at each point in time, over this period boys experienced an increase of 14 percentage points compared with an increase of 12 percentage points for girls.

The attainment gap — the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils — is largest for Irish and white British teenagers; the attainment gap for Irish pupils stands at 46 percentage points while for white British pupils it is 32 percentage points.

However, the gap between the province at the lower end - Papua - and the best performing province - Aceh - is some 15 percentage points.

«Long - term improvement is also gap - narrowing improvement,» Cheatham said, citing a 36 percentage - point rise for black students in reading proficiency in four years at Lindbergh Elementary School, and a 19 percentage - point gain for black students in reading proficiency over the same period at Glendale.

In total, 67 per cent of disadvantaged pupils achieved at least level 4 in all of reading, writing and mathematics, versus 83 per cent for other pupils — a one percentage point gap reduction over last year.

«In 2011, the level 2 inclusive gap with England stood at 8.9 percentage points and was truly a subject for concern.

The performance gap between boys and girls has now reached its the widest ever - 6.7 percentage points - at the top grades of A * and A.

Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students.

But at Eastern Michigan, only 20 percent of black students graduate within six years and there's a 25 - percentage - point gap with white students.

In the early years of secondary school the gap widens further, with boys outstripped by girls in English by 12 percentage points at age 14.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years means that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

Using student - level data, Winters shows that Denver's special education enrollment gap starts at roughly 2 percentage points in kindergarten and is more than triple that in eighth grade.

[57] As a result the gap in the rates of smoking has remained unchanged at the 2008 level of 25.2 percent, [58] and has decreased by only two percent since 2001 when the gap was 27 percentage points.