Sentences with phrase «single percentage point»

A single percentage point increase in U.S. unemployment in 1992, the centre projected, would have generated nearly 500,000 more crimes.

The poll, set to be released Friday by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, suggested that if Cuban were to seek the presidency and be Trump's Democratic opponent, he would trail the sitting president by a single percentage point.

Longer term, it would mean missing the stated 2021 target of reducing the national debt - to - GDP to 25 per cent by only a single percentage point.

One reason: A single percentage point shift in food and beverage sales from branded items to house lines translates into a $ 5.5 billion gain in sales for the supermarket chains, says Packaged Facts Publisher David Sprinkle.

The math I worked above showed how much extra money you could get over 30 years of saving and investing if your company boosted your 401 (k) employer match by a single percentage point.

Overall for each state, on average, we were right within a single percentage point margin.

But the party's number crunchers have been hard at work and reckon they're either ahead of the SNP or within a single percentage point of them in more than a dozen more.

Looking ahead, he said that «in a swing district where every single percentage point matters, the inability to demonstrate a cultural connection to the district is a liability.»

The firm favourite to succeed Gordon Brown as Labour leader until a surprise loss to his brother by a single percentage point, he subsequently quit frontline politics but remains as a backbencher.

Since the election, it has also emerged that the former chancellor Alistair Darling wanted to raise VAT to 19 per cent, a single percentage point lower than the rate that will be introduced in January 2011.

Republican Edward Mangano blocked Suozzi's bid for a third term in 2009, unseating the Democrat by a single percentage point or about 225 votes.

We are talking here about values of the order of a single percentage point or even less.

MCAS math scores in 2008 were up by just a single percentage point in three elementary grades, and early - grade MCAS English Language Arts (ELA) scores, which are the best predictors of future success, fell the most.

But four - year graduation rates improved by only a single percentage point, rising to 51.8 percent in her first two years.

Although the single percentage point drop in 2014 was small, it was only the third one - year dip in this measure since the end of World War II.

«Closer to home in New York State if we added a single percentage point to the college attainment rate of adults in New York it would add $ 17.5 billion in economic activity,» said King.

This was 17.7 per cent of the total referrals to children's social services in England in 2016 - 17, a single percentage point increase on 2015 - 16, when schools made 103,670 referrals.

Washington state's recently released dropout figures show an overall decline of a single percentage point, but the rate remains high in districts statewide.

LA's English learners trailed badly among other large districts in the state: 6 percent were proficient in math, only a single percentage point improvement from last year.

The polar moment of inertia is within a single percentage point of the original 1.6 - liter NA.

That means just a single percentage point higher BIK than the (much slower) D2 model and no annual road tax.

BlackBerry remained steady in third, and Windows Phone gained a single percentage point.

Almost all the growth comes from tablets - shipments would be up less than a single percentage point otherwise.

I'm just sorry we have to examine every single percentage point of change since it's going to happen.

But if this rate grew by a single percentage point to 6 %, this amount decreases to $ 118,500 for the same homeowner.

A single percentage point increase in ETF ownership has demonstrable effects on an individual stock, the researchers found.

Every single percentage point of the global 2 °C carbon budget that is won or lost is worth 20 billion barrels to Big Oil.

For example, using time - series data from New York, previous researchers found that a single percentage point decline in unemployment generates only a 2.2 percentage point decline in burglaries, and that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage leads to about a 3.5 percent decrease in robberies in New York City.

At the same time, upscale department stores saw its share of household shoppers grow by a single percentage point, while traditional department stores lost a point.

Thus, the firm's Housing Confidence Index score remained stable at 68.7 on a hundred - point scale, up a single percentage point during the second quarter.