Sentences with phrase «smaller average percentage»

As a population grows, larger numbers of combatants die in wars, but those slain represent a smaller average percentage of the total population, say Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and Charles Hildebolt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Not exact matches

In - house research by the bank showed that Detroit residents, on average, channeled a significantly higher percentage of their spending through small businesses than city dwellers nationwide.

As fewer companies offer pensions and Social Security makes up a smaller percentage of the average retiree's income, individuals will have to rely more on their own savings for living in retirement.

The interest rate of your Direct Consolidation Loan would be a weighted average of your previous loans» rates, plus a small percentage on top.

Hasbro, average return in percentage points from Jan. 31 to May 02, in every year since 1998 — The stock posted relatively small losses on just four occasions.

This drop is slightly smaller than the percentage decrease recorded in the Q1 2012 -LRB--3.1 %), and slightly smaller than the average percentage decrease recorded over the previous eight quarters -LRB--2.8 %).

Thus, you may see different signals from time to time and small differences in percentages above / below a moving average depending on whether an ETF has paid a dividend in the past 10 months.

On average, only 20 % of actively managed funds will beat their respective index — and typically by a small percentage.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

This percentage increase exceeded the national average of small business growth by 1.5 times.

Since that average includes some big percentage increases off small bases, the 13 % median increase for all our stocks probably provides a fairer representation.

This percentage decline is smaller than the trailing 5 - year average of -11.1 % and trailing 5 - year median of -7.8 % for the index.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

While this may be alarming to many shavers as an excessive number of hairs, the fact that the knot of the average shaving brush contains thousands of individual badger hairs means that this very small percentage will likely cause no noticeable effect on the brush's density or performance qualities.

On average in a small church the attendance at worship represents a much higher percentage of the membership, the stewardship is better per member, the instruction is in smaller groups and may therefore be more effective, and leadership development is much better because there isn't pressure to function on a «professional» level.

With increased average lifespans, it means a grayer and grayer Taiwan: In 1994 people over sixty - five years old accounted for only 7 percent of the population; by 2036 the figure will be three times as large - which means a smaller percentage of workers.

Since the Wizards are such a great defensive rebounding team, that's enough for them to not only survive but thrive on the boards in those small lineups, getting better numbers than their averages on both offensive and defensive rebound percentage.

Slim / Athletic women have small bone structures, with lower than average body fat percentage.

By contrast, half of her February donors were online (a percentage that still sounds too small, btw), with an average gift under $ 50.

That is not much but, given that the average vehicle loses roughly 70 % of the energy supplied to it by its fuel to waste heat and friction, recovering even a small percentage of this with thermoelectric technology would be worthwhile.»

They found that the average female mannequin body size was that of a «extremely underweight human women,» while the same was true of only a small percentage of male mannequins.

Highest average percentage at the end of each day gets a small prize (could be just a shout out in an e-mail).

Four out of every 10 Miami metro area entrepreneurs plan to hire more employees in the next 12 months — 23 percentage points higher than the national average, according to Bank of America's fall 2017 Small Business Owner Report released Tuesday.

The average estimate of $ 4,231 reflects the influence of a small percentage of individuals who offered extremely high figures.

When charting the average mathematics scale score and percentage of students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch in the 4th and 8th grades, we find that only nine or fewer states had a smaller percentage of students than Minnesota below «basic» proficiency.

Georgia's three charters enroll a small percentage of LEP students, but the statewide average is also very low.

When the staff of each school district is reviewed, «A» rated districts, on average, employ more teachers as a percentage of their staff than all other districts, while «D» rated districts (the lowest ranking any district is currently rated) employed the smallest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff, according to most recent data available.

On average, however, the schools continued to have a smaller percentage of gifted students than the state as a whole.

Compared to the national average, Texas has a smaller percentage of kids in reading considered «proficient,» which is a high standard.

In Algebra 2 and geometry, the percentage of Jennings» students who meet proficient levels was higher than the state average, but only a small number of the district's students took those tests.

Dick Turpin, I understand what you are saying but numerous reports, tests and surveys show your «facts» to be totally incorrect, if the speed linit is increased the average goes up by a small amount and most keep well below that limit even more so if they feel it is a fair speed limit, lets face it the same people who speed through a built up area at 90 + will still speed if the limit was raised but a massive percentage of the population will still stay below the safe limit, especially if the education (ie at 30 the kid would be hurt at 40 probably dead) but then I wouldn't want the lower speed limits altered they are fine as they are but the motorway....

A survey of 1,007 self - published writers — one of the most comprehensive insights into the growing market to date — found that while a small percentage of authors were bringing in sums of $ 100,000 - plus, average earnings were just $ 10,000 a year.

-LCB- 2 -RCB- Given that the average first novel, favourably reviewed in leading newspapers, will sell a few thousand copies over its total shelf life, -LCB- 3 -RCB- it is obvious why publishers don't rush to fill their lists with new names, and indeed look after only that small percentage of writers that pay their salaries.

Many authors feel that the small percentage (on average, 15 %), is fair trade for the wide distribution plus centralized accounting and payment services.

According the same JD Power and Associates survey, «Acquisition of new customers by smaller banks and credit unions has increased by 2.2 percentage points, to an average of 10.3 percent in 2012 from 8.1 percent in 2011.»

Over the past year, the average U.S. large - cap growth fund has risen 18.2 %, while the average U.S. large - cap value fund is up 10.4 %... from 2003 through 2013, the average gap between the two styles of stock - picking for large - cap stocks was 0.75 percentage point... it's a similar story among small - company stocks, where growth - stock funds -LSB-...] are up 16 % over the past year.

Though the rates (which are a weighted average of the rates for all loans being consolidated, plus a small percentage extra) aren't always lower, consolidation does have its perks.

I use a somewhat similar strategy that includes a 200 - week exponential moving average and the percentage of stocks above their 40 - day moving average with some success in a small portion of my retirement account.

Thus, you may see different signals from time to time and small differences in percentages above / below a moving average depending on whether an ETF has paid a dividend in the past 10 months.

Conversely, when average pip movements are smaller, traders fair better, yielding higher win percentages.

Their $ 1 billion fund returned 48 % last year, beating its average small - blend competitors by 10.5 percentage points.

The discount is a small percentage (usually 2 - 5 %) off the share price and helps keep the average cost low for DRIP investors.

As a result, the sector has a below - average yield and the smallest percentage of dividend payers in the index.

According to April data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, our top 10 small cities have an overall unemployment average of just 5.9 %, over a full percentage point less than the national average.

cost of a house today as a percentage of average income is higher, also down payments are typically smaller as a percentage).

Definitely no dollar cost averaging for $ 100K (unless you're going dollar - cost average 25K over maybe a month... but then that's not much of an average) You're better off dumping the lump in and getting the value of time rather than whatever small percentage you'll gain from buying at a lower price.

So Chris says he understands that not all, or even most, actively managed funds can beat the market — we talked about that — but do we believe that a small percentage of particularly skilled managers could consistently beat the market or the market averages or indexes?

Meanwhile, the following five states, on average, showed the smallest percentage premium discount for bundling auto and condo insurance.