Because demand varies from region to region and
the proportion of household income expected to be spent on housing also varies greatly from region to region, the Scout Vision Housing Affordability Index is best used to compare affordability in a region over time to assess overheated markets, rather than using the Index to compare different regions at one point in time to assess market overheating.
A number of independent reports have shown energy policy costs make up a relatively small
proportion of household energy bills.»
He said: «Food waste makes up a significant
proportion of the household waste we throw out each week, with over 70 % of the food waste dumped in landfills coming from households.
A final option, and potentially the most expensive, would be for a state to match a tax benefit to the amount a family saves, either in cash terms or as
a proportion of household income.
Maximizing
the proportion of household - produced energy consumed helps unburden the public power grid while reducing household feed - in peaks to the grid.
The HEMS system helps consumers use data on driving times, solar intensity forecasts and current household energy consumption to synchronize electric vehicle charging times with rooftop energy production, so they can maximize
the proportion of household - produced energy they use.
-- Difference between top and bottom income quintiles in
the proportion of household expenditures spent on transportation;
Statistics Canada said household credit market debt as
a proportion of household disposable income increased to 167.8 per cent, up from 166.6 per cent in the first quarter.
Since the early 1980s,
the proportion of household financial assets held as deposits has fallen from about 50 per cent to below 30 per cent; this has been mirrored by a comparable rise in
the proportion of household assets held as claims on life insurance and superannuation funds (Graph 11).
Statistics Canada said Thursday household credit market debt as
a proportion of household disposable income was 170.4 per cent in the fourth quarter.
Meanwhile, the total household debt service ratio, measured as total obligated payments of principal and interest as
a proportion of household disposable income for both mortgage and non-mortgage debt, remained flat at 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.
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The proportion of households with stretched financial positions has grown significantly,» Carney admonished.
A significant
proportion of households still carry little or no debt, and in the years ahead might choose to borrow more.
Over the past decade, an increasing
proportion of households in Canada have become highly indebted relative to their income.
There has also been an increase in
the proportion of households expecting prices to fall, which may reflect the publicity attached to the prospect that the prices of some goods will be reduced by these tax changes.
Urinary As concentrations in our infants were an order of magnitude lower than the median 35 µg / L of As in a Bangladeshi population exposed to high drinking water As levels (median, 80 µg / L).28, 47 This was expected given the high rate of breastfeeding in our populations29 and the lower
proportion of households with tap water As concentrations above the US Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 µg / L (12.5 % in our study).
Rapidly rising house prices have seen a far great
proportion of households liable for stamp duty and inheritance tax than was originally intended.
If you assume that a certain
proportion of households will own an electric vehicle in the future and plug the vehicle in at some point in time, then you are left with an inconceivably high number of charging scenarios.
This ranking most heavily emphasizes
the proportion of households that have delinquent credit accounts that are 90 days or more past due.
Sunny San Diego has a relatively low
proportion of households with moms, but those moms get a beach!
The proportion of households which hold over 350 % of debt in comparison to their disposable income is now 8 %, which has doubled since the 2008 financial crisis.
US Census data was used to determine the number of county households, which was used with survey - derived estimates of the average number of dogs and cats per household and
proportion of households that owned dogs and cats to estimate the number of owned dogs and cats in the county, and with survey - derived estimates of the percentage of households feeding stray dogs and the average number of unowned but fed dogs and cats per household to estimate the number of stray dogs and cats in the county.
This does not mean that there is no gap in
the proportion of households that are smoke - free or in the proportion of children who live in smoke - free households.
Provincially, Alberta had the highest
proportion of households with a mortgage (62.1 per cent) and Newfoundland and Labrador had the lowest proportion (44.8 per cent).
Not exact matches
While
household spending is similar in some areas, low - income Americans spend a significantly larger
proportion of their money on housing, while high - income Americans spend a much higher
proportion on insurance and retirement expenses.
For these
households, the
proportion of their income going to energy is three times as high as it is for
households with an income above $ 50,000.
Those with relatively high
household incomes — 41 %
of Americans with an annual
household income
of $ 100,000 or more have used four or more
of these services, three times the
proportion among
households earning less than $ 30,000 annually.
We then took that five - year cost as a
proportion of median
household income in each city to determine affordability.
The RBC housing affordability measure captures the
proportion of pre-tax
household income that would be needed to service the costs
of owning a specified category
of home at current market values (a fall in the measure represents an improvement in affordability).
The ongoing accumulation
of household debt has led to a further increase in the debt - servicing ratio; interest payments as a
proportion of disposable income rose to 9.3 per cent in the September quarter (Graph 23), and are expected to rise further.
A lot
of that has to do with the masterly media and marketing game she's been playing, pivoting from niche entertainer to unlikely global
household name in a sort
of product launch (or product relaunch)
of blockbuster
proportions.
The
proportion of low ratio loans to highly indebted
households is trending up, and the share
of these mortgages amortized longer than 25 years is also increasing, it said.
It concluded they are «expected to decrease the
proportion of highly indebted
households among new borrowers» particularly in high price growth regions.
We then took that five - year cost as a
proportion of median
household income in each county and city to determine affordability.
So the answer to the question I posed above is that, provided the variability
of interest rates has also fallen in
proportion to the fall in the average interest rate level — which it has — the hypothetical
household in 2003 is in no riskier a position than the hypothetical
household in 1993.
He saw human beings as tending to create a number
of small and hospitable polities» the
household and the city, especially» whose
proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.
We make 2 kinds
of yogurt in our
household — non-fat (1/2 gallon, enriched with ca 1/2 c. non-fat milk powder — organic, non-instant), and 1 - 2 % depending on what's available from our weekly dairy delivery (same
proportions).
Seniors control a large
proportion of wealth and they are likely to be responsible for purchasing basic
household staples regularly.
There were no significant differences between the 12 test groups in the
proportions of main vs. joint
household grocery purchasing responsibility (F11, 789 = 1.5, p > 0.05), gender (F11, 789 = 0.6, p > 0.05), age group (F11, 789 = 0.5, p > 0.05), education level (F11, 789 = 1.0, p > 0.05) or
household income (F11, 789 = 0.9, p > 0.05), indicating that randomization to test groups was successful.
Evidently, the
household supply chain segment accounts for the largest
proportion of food waste in most developed countries.
A number
of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high
proportion of students from low - income
households.
Controls were more likely to have ever breast fed (79 %, 95 % CI 71 — 86 %) than infants in England and Wales in the Infant Feeding Surveys from 1995 (68 %) and 2000 (71 %), or be breast feeding at 6 months (27 %, 95 % CI 20 — 35 %) than in the surveys from 1995 (22 %) and 2000 (22 %).2 Among the controls, the
proportion ever breast fed increased with social class
of the main wage earner in the
household from 57 % in social class V to 88 % in social class I.
A good
proportion of the cash would no doubt pass to younger relatives to help them raise a deposit for a home; meanwhile when older
households downsize they would free - up larger homes: two different routes to boosting the volume
of housing transactions, with all the wider economic activity this implies.
It has the nation's second lowest
proportion of high income
households (14.3 %), and conversely the nation's highest
proportion of low income
households (78.9 %).
Households in England and Wales deserve better, especially in a period where such a high
proportion of living costs can be attributed to house prices.
The programme has targeted areas according to measures
of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index
of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the
proportion of children under four in
households receiving income related benefits.
The Buffalo Niagara region ranked fifth out
of the nation's 50 biggest metropolitan areas in 2014, for the
proportion of local
households getting food assistance.
2011 Census information on total population, population density, and the
proportion of the resident population falling into different categories
of gender, age,
household type, housing tenure, ethnicity, country
of birth, passports held, English (or Welsh in Wales) spoken as a main language, religion, National Statistics Socio - economic Classification (NS - SeC), Economic activity, industrial sector, qualifications, health, and deprivation.
«While nonresidents make up roughly half
of the 45,000
households the governor estimates are subject to the millionaire tax, they do not generate a similar
proportion of the nearly $ 4 billion that is raised from the tax.
Other impacts, according to the researchers:
Households in the lowest income bracket spend twice the
proportion of their income on electricity than those in the highest income bracket.