Sentences with phrase «percentage than in prior years»

And 15.6 % say budgets will increase — but by a smaller percentage than in prior years.

Not exact matches

Pricing decreased 0.4 percentage points reflecting timing of trade promotion recognition in the prior year that more than offset price increases in cheese.

Although one million fewer children lived in poverty in 2015 than the prior year, the percentage of children on the economic brink remains stubbornly high: 43 percent of children under age 18 (30.6 million) lived in low - income households and 21 percent lived in poor families (14.8 million).

For example, the percentage of 8th graders who think that occasional use of synthetic marijuana or over-the-counter cough and cold medications is less than it was last year and in prior years.

Teachers who were given a rating of «satisfactory» in the prior academic year were 22.1 percentage points more likely to be dismissed than teachers in the same school who were given the highest rating, «superior.»

That is only slightly more lawyers using the cloud than in the three prior years, when the percentage stayed at about 31 percent.

The HPSI overall posted 89.5 in January, 3.7 percentage points higher than the month prior and 6.8 percentage points higher than the year prior.

Confidence in housing jumped in March in the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index ® (HPSI), with the HPSI overall posting 88.3, 2.5 percentage points higher than one month prior and 3.8 percentage points higher than one year prior.

Of the 1.4 million Canadians who renewed their mortgage in the past year, 72 per cent were able to renegotiate a decreased rate: on average, rates are 1.09 percentage points less than the rates prior to renegotiating.