Sentences with phrase «point decline since»

However, fewer than half (43 percent) of Americans report they often or always set the thermostat to 68 degrees or cooler in the winter, a 5 - point decline since November 2011.

Thirty - two percent of fourth - grade town students read Below Basic in 2011, a four percentage point decline from 2011, and a two - point decline since 2007; 33 percent of fourth - grader town students were highly literate in 2013, a three percent increase from both 2011 and 2007.

This is a one point decline over 2013 — and a five point decline since 2002.

Not exact matches

The personal saving rate has since declined 1.5 percentage points in a span of four years.

«While one data point doesn't make a trend, this is the biggest monthly decline in Ireland's Treasury holdings since the data became available, and...

Other large declines since 2012 included Syria, which dropped 12 points, Bahrain, which dropped 15, and St. Lucia, which dropped 16.

This marks a modest increase since 1999, when 23 % of moms were home with their children, but a long - term decline of about 20 percentage points since the late 1960s when about half of moms were at home.

P&G spokeswoman Tressie Rose declined to comment on report specifics, since the company hasn't seen the data and isn't familiar with Points North or its methodology.

Coming off its biggest one - day decline since 2007, Shanghai's main share index seesawed throughout Tuesday — falling as much as 5 percent as trading opened and rising 1 percent at one point — to end down 1.7 percent.

Since then, the arbitrage strategy has declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11 of these 16 years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.

With Monday's sharp downturn, the Dow Jones has lost about 2,200 points since Jan. 26, a decline of nearly 10 percent.

U.S. homeownership rates are down eight percentage points since 2009, with declines evident among most major demographic groups except older Americans.

The drop of 12.3 points in the orders index is the largest since October 2001 (when, in the wake of 9/11, the index dropped 12.4 points) and the second largest decline since December 1980.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

There has been speculation in some corners that the inverse products helped fuel this month's sudden stock slump, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average have its largest one - day point loss ever and put the S&P 500 in correction territory (a decline of more than 10 percent from its peak) for the first time since 2015.

The broad decline in mortgage rates since 2006 reflects a 246 basis point decrease in the 10 - Year Treasury note rate.

Reis» preliminary forecast for 2014 calls for office - vacancy rates to decline by roughly half a percentage point by year's end and asking rents to increase 2.8 %, the largest gain since 2007.

On either measure of real cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.

The study shows a steady decline since 1997 when it was at 13 percent and, predictably, it dropped to its lowest point of 6 percent in 2008 at the beginning of the financial crisis.

The decline pushed profitability down by 0.7 percentage points to 35.9 % of sales since Kimberly Clark couldn't use higher prices to offset rising commodity costs.

Of course, you'll also notice the fairly steady incline in stock prices since March 2009, which makes the 394 - point decline look negligible.

TORONTO, November 2, 2015 - The latest RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI survey pointed to another downturn in overall business conditions, with output, new orders and employment all declining since the previous month.

I intend to confine myself to the three points that preachers traditionally allow themselves (more aptly, perhaps, the three wishes that fairy - tale characters are always granted just before they are turned back into frogs) I wish, first of all, that one might avoid the statistical traps that lie in the path if one relies too much on changing church membership figures — in this case the figures that are supposed to show drastic decline and weakening in oldline Protestantism since the 1960s.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

Now this club is 100 % Wenger and it hasn't been working since it became 100 % Wenger, we have been on a steady decline since the point where everyone and everything at the club was down to Wenger.

It has, however, been a steep decline ever since − a 5 - 0 loss at home to Manchester United was their third successive league defeat, having lost to both Manchester City (2 - 3) and Liverpool (3 - 1) in August − and now the Trotters find themselves hovering precariously above the bottom - three in the table, just a point better off than Norwich.

People point to the worrying figures about the numbers of journalists that have been laid off (with net newsroom employment down by more than 10,000 since 2007), the difficulties facing city and state newspapers, and to the dramatic decline of ad revenues.

Russian speakers noted that from the Moscow point of view, the authority of the EU and US has been in decline since Levitsky and Way began their analysis; and the EU and US now have less interest in the area.

Among other points, the new data shows that the number of UK - born Christians decreased by 5.3 million since the 2001 Census, but Christianity's overall decline was slowed as this was topped up by 1.2 million Christian immigrants.

The agency says violent crime is also declining, and the overall prison population has shrunk by one quarter since a high point in 1999.

Since then, the issue has been hotly debated, and recent research has pointed to geographic differences rather than a uniform, global decline.

According to reports prepared by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), although the level of provincial government funding to universities in all 10 provinces has steadily declined since 1988, it has declined fastest in Ontario, to the point at which Ontario's universities receive 22 % less per student than universities in the other nine provinces.

In September 2007 less sea ice covered the Arctic than at any point since the U.S. government began keeping records of its decline.

By the time a woman reaches menopause, gonadal hormone production, which has been on a slow, steady decline since her 30's, reaches its lowest point.

U.S. performance in reading and science has also declined (slightly but steadily) since 2009, by three points in reading and six points in science.

Asked about support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 31 % of the public express a favorable view in 2016, a figure that has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013.

Support has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013, suggesting that opinion has shifted in response to the media attention the issue has received during the ongoing Vergara v. California litigation over the constitutionality of tenure (see «Reaping the Whirlwind,» legal beat, Fall 2016).

While showing a slide of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) performance rankings since 2000, Sahlberg pointed out how most countries, including the United States, have continued to decline in performance following an education reform while Finland continues to improve.

NAEP shows large statewide declines in charter scores since 2013, and the state's own testing data pointing in the same direction specifically for New Orleans.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

However, the 4 - point gain from 2004 to 2008 averages only 1 point per year, showing that improvement rates have declined in age 9 math since NCLB took hold.

Carr attributed the lack of an increase in national reading scores and a decline of two points in math since 2013 to declining performance of the lowest performers --- those whose scores fall within the bottom 25 percent of students.

Since 2007 there has been a national decline in the number of school library / media centers and there are fewer library / media centers operating in high ‐ poverty schools than in wealthier schools, especially low income schools in the inner cities, where the number has dropped by five percentage points.

The most significant takeaway is the significant decline in Texas math scores since 2011, when Texas scores peaked, and it points to some obvious conclusions.

Prof Alan Smithers, director of the University of Buckingham's Centre for Education and Employment Research, said the 2.1 percentage points decline was the biggest drop in A * - C grades since GCSEs were introduced in the late 1980s.

West Sacramento Early College Prep Charter has had a decline in academic performance since 2011, dropping 35 API points last year to a 2013 API score of 611.

Acknowledging that the number of new teachers produced since 2008 has declined, NCTQ president Kate Walsh points out that «the drop was preceded by a three - decade period of enrollment growth, far outpacing the demand year - in and year - out.

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.1 Not surprisingly, public trust in government is at only 18 percent2 and voter participation has reached its lowest point since 1996.3 Without an understanding of the structure of government; rights and responsibilities; and methods of public engagement, civic literacy and voter apathy will continue to plague American democracy.

That is three percentage point decline from levels in 2011 and a six - point decline in functional illiteracy since 2002.

While the total tablet market grew in 2014 it was a much slower growth rate and price points have been declining since 2012.