Sentences with phrase «point increase compared»

In a similar vein, 62 % of respondents agree that «science makes our ways of life change too fast,» a 4 - point increase compared with the 2010 survey.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

In addition, 27 percent said they have positions they are unable to fill right now, a 6 percentage point increase compared with September 2014.

Lollipop (Android 5.0 + Android 5.1) is now at 18.1 percent, an impressive 6 percentage points increase compared to the June update.

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The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

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.

Forty - four percent said they will wait until December or later to shop, an increase of five percentage points compared to 2014.

Half of shoppers say they will shop for themselves when shopping for others, an increase of 7 percentage points compared to 2014.

The margin of victory has increased this year, he said, jumping to 13 points, compared to 6 or 7 points in the past.

[108] Upon learning how the plan would work, New Jersey native residents railed against it, comparing it to using one credit card to pay off another, pointing out that it would create hardship for commuters and noting that it would actually increase the state's $ 32 billion debt.

In order to effectively manage the entire $ 840 billion market, RxAdvance engages all four stakeholders — Through Patient Rx360 ™, RxAdvance provides prescribers at the Point - of - Care, pharmacists at the Point - of - Sale, with increased actionable intelligence as compared to what is currently offered.

Depreciation expense in the quarter was 27 basis points higher as a percentage of sales basis compared to last year due to increased new units and remodels.

Compared to last quarter, net income available to common shareholders increased 3 %, reflecting the combined positive impacts of 9 % higher other income and very strong loan growth, partially offset by an eight basis point reduction in net interest margin.

At year - end 2013, we estimate pension funding levels for our 50 largest rated US corporate issuers increased by 19 percentage points to 94 % of pension obligations, compared with a year earlier.

Our past 48 long calls have outperformed the market by an average of 4 percentage points, increasing about 1 % compared to a 3 % loss for the S&P 500.

Credit scores for those individuals in Georgia jumped nearly 11 points, or 1.8 percent, compared to average credit scores prior to the mandate, while young adults from Idaho increased their credit scores by 16 points, or 2.6 percent.

Reported development margin increased 600 basis points to 15.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012 as compared to 9.4 percent in the prior year quarter.

«This evidence, compared to the study by the ANU that involved just 75 people and relied on self - reporting to a questionnaire, clearly shows that the bank of credible evidence points to no increased consumption by people who choose to mix energy drinks and alcohol.

There was a 6.2 point increase in crying knowledge, a 6.5 % increase in sharing information about walking away and a 5.6 % increase in shared information about shaking dangers among those who received the PURPLE materials compared with those who received the control materials.

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

When it comes to methods of interaction, over the phone has seen the largest increase compared with a year ago - up by 1.7 points.

Increased their vote by 10 % points compared to 5 years ago.

In the 2010 general election, he was the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, losing by 42 votes to the Labour's sitting MP Glenda Jackson and increasing the Conservative vote share of the vote by nearly 10 percentage points compared to the previous election.

Male donors are also increasing their participation in the campaign finance system by some 60 percent this election cycle, with nearly 1 million men so far making a political contribution in a congressional race, compared with about 615,000 at this point in the 2016 cycle, according to the center's data.

Activists are particularly concerned that the party only increased its share of the vote by four percentage points compared with 2005, especially in light of Gordon Brown's unpopularity in the runup to the general election.

«When these dates were compared with radiocarbon data from tree rings, we noted decreased levels of carbon - 14 — indicating increased levels of solar activity — at these same points.»

On average, this is only a 1 - point increase in the number of respondents who agreed compared with the previous survey, carried out in 2010.

On average, the proportion of people interested in science across the union has increased by about 8 percentage points compared with a similar survey carried out in 2001.

Quality of coverage compared to one year prior increased 7.1 percentage points compared with non-expansion states

He noted that the average global temperature compared with the early 1900s is now expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next 15 to 35 years, which he called «a tipping point» toward aggressive climate change.

By comparing weekly deaths and flu - related hospitalizations in each year's flu season, the researchers were able to calculate that for every percentage point increase in the A / H3N2 match rate, weekly deaths declined by about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residents.

The study also points to an increased incidence of tumors compared with those not operated on, but there the risks remained very small.

When compared to family medicine physicians that did not receive the intervention, internal medicine physicians had a significant increase in generic prescribing rates of 5.4 percentage points for all medications, 10.5 percentage points for beta - blockers, and 4.0 percentage points for statins.

«Type 2 diabetes is associated with smoking to begin with; this study found theres a 30 % increased risk if youre a smoker compared to nonsmokers,» he points out.

Physical exhaustion increased to 54.9 ± 18.9 points during the 5 - h condition by 30 % and 19 % compared with 42.1 ± 15.5 and 46.0 ± 19.1 points during the BL and 9 - h condition, respectively (both P < 0.001 versus 5 h; no difference between BL and 9 h, P = 0.19).

It is interesting to note that the KBs are able to produce more energy compared with glucose because of the metabolic effects of ketosis — the high chemical potential of 3 - β - hydroxybutyrate leads to an increase in the ΔG0 of ATP hydrolysis.3 A further point to underline is, as shown in Table 1, that glycaemia, even though reduced, remains within physiological levels because of the fact that glucose is formed from two sources: from glucogenic amino acids and from glycerol liberated via lysis from triglycerides.7

In a study the company did in September and October of 2009, researchers found that when the Dow dropped 100 points, the site saw a 2 % increase in the number of pages viewed on each site compared to days when the Dow rose.

The publisher increased its Metascore average by more than six points compared to its 2016 slate thanks to a well - received new entry in the Wolfenstein franchise, a reboot of Prey, a strong Evil Within sequel, and various releases in the Elder Scrolls series.

But, led by those two titles and the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck, the studio actually saw its Metascore average increase by over 8 points compared to its 2014 releases.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

Worse still, the proportion of these toddlers enrolled in early childhood classes fell by 4 percentage points between 2005 and 2011 compared with an average increase of the same amount for all OECD countries.

• The offer of a voucher raised the proportion of African American students who enrolled in a private four - year college by 5 percentage points, an increase of 58 % as compared to the control group.

While Selman and Elizabeth point out that the traditional view has been to steer students away from the movie version of a book, for fear that they'll watch the movie instead of reading, the two researchers hypothesize that creating a deep and thought - provoking connection between a movie and a book could actually increase students» interest in reading that book and that the very act of comparing and contrasting the way a story is told in two media could lead to a deeper understanding of the ideas in the story and of the characters and the choices they make.

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.

The strength of this relationship may be gauged by comparing the change in quality associated with changes in the school's position in the national test - score ranking: the results show that an increase of 50 percentile points is associated with an increase of 0.15 standard deviations in student perceptions of teacher practices (see Figure 1).

When it comes to acquiring more advanced skills, however, the situation is reversed: The average student's scores increase 32 percentile points with multimodal interactive lessons, compared with 20 points with noninteractive lessons.

The statewide reading pass rate rose from 77 percent to 87 percent, an increase of 10 percentage points (compared with a 16 percentage point increase in Houston).

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.