Sentences with phrase «point gap compares»

That 12 percentage point gap compares with the national 17 point gap.

Not exact matches

That is almost a 40 point gap when compared to what respondent thought about their mayor in the rest of the GTA.

Surely common sense would suggest if Man City finish 4 points ahead of us then spend over 60 million on outfield talent compared to our zero, there is a high chance that that gap widens.

Week 32 of the Lawro Challenge saw the gap at the top of the leaderboard cut to 11 points as Rich scored a creditable 8 points compared with Lawro's meagre 5 points.

Among infants born during 2010 — 2013, 64.3 % of non-Hispanic black infants started breastfeeding, compared to 81.5 % of white infants, a gap of 17.2 percentage points.

A YouGov survey for The Times puts the Brexit camp seven points clear on 46 %, while an ORB poll for the Telegraph shows Leave (44 %) closing the gap on Remain (49 %) compared to last week.

Third, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles narrowed the gap to 1,5 % to Maduro in the 2013 presidential election (compared to Rosales who lost by a 25 % point difference), in spite of having to compete on highly uneven playing field.

But behind those headline results, the Lib Dems have piled on a lot of votes compared to 2013 - a near - eight point gap has become a two point gap.

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.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

33 - percentage point gap on the question about whether humans have evolved over time — 98 % of scientists say we have, compared with 65 % of the public.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

I ordered in wide calf and regular calf to compare (my calves can go either way depending on the shoe) and the wide calf actually ended up being extremely generous — to the point where there were big «gaps» around my leg.

The gap has decreased from 16.3 percentage points to 15.6 percentage points, but only 58.6 per cent of boys start school with the expected level of development, compared to 74.3 per cent of girls.

When comparing school - to - district gaps within a CMO, the typical standard deviation is almost 10 percentage points.

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.

The gap widens to almost 12 percentage points when we compare only low - income students.

For example, from 1990 to 2007, black students» scale scores increased 34 points on the NAEP 4th - grade mathematics tests (compared with a 28 - point increase for whites), and the black - white achievement gap declined from 32 to 26 points during this period.

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.

Although sizable gender gaps remain, between 1996 and 2002, boys improved their relative position, with an increase of 20 percentage points compared to a 14 - percentage - point increase for girls.

«By comparing content, someone pointed out my gap,» she says.

When it comes to writing, 52 per cent of pupils on free school meals reached the expected standard by age 7, compared to 71 per cent of other pupils - a gap of 19 percentage points.

Further, when told that a voucher system either could help public schools by making them compete or hurt them by reducing their funding, preference for only funding public schools rises to 67 %, compared to 26 % support for vouchers, a 41 - point gap.

However, there was a 24 percentage point gap between white adults who have a college degree and those who don't; 80 percent of whites with a degree said they'd want their child to go to a four - year college, compared with 56 percent who don't have a degree.

Girls outperformed boy in all subjects with the biggest gap — 14 percentage points — in writing, where three quarter of girls reached the expected standard compared to 62 per cent of boys.

Forty - eight percent of white 4th graders were proficient in math, compared to 16 percent Black students, a 32 point achievement gap, up from 27 points two years ago.

«We are seeing troubling gaps between the highest - and Fourth - grade math scores for Texas students dropped three points compared to

In 2012, the math proficiency gap was 10.2 percentage points compared to 4.4 percentage points in 2017.

Some 19.8 % of boys entries were awarded an A * or an A this year compared with 26.5 % of girls entries - a gap of 6.7 percentage points.

Closing the Achievement Gap (15 points) Looks at the bottom 25 % of school's student population compared to state averages.

Achieve's report found that more than half the states had a gap of 30 percentage points or more between the higher percentages of students scoring proficient on state tests compared with the lower number hitting what the national assessment tests deem as proficient in 2013 - 14.

Although the increase is attributed to improved graduation rates for specific groups of students that have traditionally struggled to earn a diploma — including a 15 percentage point gain for Hispanic students and a 9 percentage point gain for black students over the past decade — gaps still remain when comparing these students to their white and Asian peers.

Black students showed the largest improvement, closing the gap by 7.5 percentage points compared to white students between 2005 - 06 and 2011 - 12.

Compared to 1992, the achievement gap in reading by racial groups has increased (from 24 points to 30 points).

The BBC used the data to compare schools with similar average A-level points against each other, and found that the figures suggested a gap remained between independent and state schools» university admissions.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

Performance of each stock compared to the All Ords Index, shown in positive or negative % points gap.

Though as Shaw points out, just comparing auction records for a female and male artist, both deceased — Georgia O» Keefe's Jimson Weed / White Flower No 1 (1932) at USD$ 44.4 million, a fraction of Pablo Picasso's USD$ 179 million Les femmes d'Alger (Version «O»)(1955)-- shows there's a long way to go to close the gap.

This point is minor compared to some of the others, but if you're worried about accounting for gaps in time, I have a solution for you: don't put the exact dates of your employment on the resume.