Sentences with phrase «smaller percentage point increase»

Global fondleslab sales are levelling out with a smaller percentage point increase in the number of people set to purchase tablets this year than in 2014, according to analyst house Gartner.

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The increase in hiring by small businesses is an encouraging sign for the economy amid estimates that the 16 - day government shutdown could have sliced off as much as 0.6 percentage point from fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

That number, which grew nearly one percentage point every year from 2008 to 2011, grew only 0.3 % last year — from 17.5 % in 2011 to 17.8 % in 2012 — making it the smallest increase over the past five years.

The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

While these percentages sound small, Atkinson pointed out that thousands of hydraulic fracturing wells are being drilled every year in the WCSB, increasing the likelihood of earthquake activity.

An increasing number of people try the practice of how to meditate deeply at some point in their lives, unfortunately only a small percentage actually continue with it for the long - term.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

Susan Dynarski and her colleagues find that being assigned to a smaller class in the early elementary grades increased college enrollment rates among African Americans by 19 percent (6 percentage points on a base of 31 percent).

The effect for non-poor students is somewhat smaller, but still quite large — an increase of 23 percentage points from a baseline of 67 percent, suggesting a nearly 35 percent improvement.

Over the next 20 years, the gap grew to 45 percentage points primarily because the attainment of the wealthiest Americans raced ahead (up to 54 percent completing college), while Americans from more modest means made far smaller gains (increasing their chances to just 9 percent).

Smaller schools boosted college - going rates for black males by 11.3 percentage points, «a 36 percent increase relative to the enrollment rate of their control group counterparts.»

Although the relationship is statistically significant, it is quite small in size: a 10 - percentage - point increase in the share of students deemed proficient is associated with an increase in citizen ratings of just 0.03 points on a GPA - style scale (i.e., A = 4.0; F = 0).

Smaller increases in the college - going rate were found from the first fall to the first year (two percentage point increase) and from the first to the second year (three percentage point increase).

Shares of English Language Learner and Special Education students [4] in the adjusted cohort have increased by small amounts of 2 percentage points and 1 percentage point, respectively.

As a rule of thumb, for winter tires you can reduce the width 10 mm, increase the aspect ratio 10 percentage points, and get a wheel one inch smaller — in this case 215 / 60R16.

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.»

Benjamin Reitzes, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the half a percentage point increase in the debt ratio was well below seasonal norms and the smallest third - quarter increase since 2000.

We reduced small cap allocations by a few percentage points this year and increased international.

If other obligations (student loans, living expenses, whatever) prevent you from putting away that much right now, start with a smaller figure and increase it by a percentage point or more each year.

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