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The appeal of variable - rate loans is that they usually start out with interest rates that are between one and two percentage points lower than fixed - rate loans.

This will lead GDP to be higher than otherwise by between about 1/2 and 3/4 of a percentage point over the course of two years (Graph 1).

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

Prices rose by an average of 5.2 per cent a year between 1981 and 2012 in the country as a whole, or 1.3 percentage points a year faster than average incomes.

As a basis for comparison, between 1980 and 1995, household credit grew, on average, by around 3 3/4 percentage points faster than nominal GDP.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

... inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

For example, by 30 percentage points (67.3 percent to 37 percent) native - born citizens are more likely to believe that the U.S. Constitution should be a higher legal authority than international law if there is a conflict between the two.

Among infants born during 2010 — 2013, the gap in breastfeeding initiation between black and white infants was 17.2 percentage points, only slightly less than the 19.9 percentage point difference between black and white infants born during 2003 — 2006 (a timeframe when the methodology only included the landline sample)(4).

In 14 states, the difference in breastfeeding initiation between white and black infants was greater than 15 percentage points and the disparity exceeded 25 percentage points in seven of these states.

In 14 states, primarily in the Midwest and South, the difference in breastfeeding initiation between white and black infants was greater than 15 percentage points and the disparity exceeded 25 percentage points in seven of these states.

Christie's net favorability rating among Republican voters, which dropped 16 percentage points between 2012 and 2013, is now far lower than any nominee in the modern era who was so well known.

After the 2010 election, there were 194 seats in Britain with a gap of less than ten percentage points between the first - and second - placed parties; after the 2015 election there were only 120, a reduction of more than one - third in those that can be captured by a swing of no more than five points.

According to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), in one geographic region in Canada, the rate of gestational diabetes varied more than three percentage points between the coldest times of year and the hottest.

By the final time span, living with a single parent all three years between ages 14 and 16, rather than none, was associated with reduced probability of graduating from college of 16.6 percentage points compared to a reduction of 8.1 percentage points in the first period.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

In the case of West Virginia for 4th - grade math, the difference (60.8 percent — 28.1 percent = 32.7 percentage points) is about 0.02 standard deviations worse than the average difference between the state test and the NAEP over the three years, which is 32.4 percent.

Between 2007 and 2008, the share of adults who thought the law should be renewed (with no more than minor changes) fell by 7 percentage points.

Annual math gains between 2007 and 2010 were almost 6 percentage points, while reading gains averaged more than 8 points per year.

Democratic partisans are anywhere between 14 and 25 percentage points more supportive of higher teacher salaries than Republicans are, with the gap 10 percentage points wider in 2015 and 2016 than it had been in 2008 and 2009.

In 2015, the range between the highest - and the lowest - performing state was less than 50 percentage points, as compared to nearly 65 percentage points in 2013.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

Detail of the figures suggests the gap between the lowest 20 per cent of children and the average for all children has narrowed by more than five percentage points in the past four years.

The proportion of CME who were eligible for free school meals when they were last in school is nine percentage points higher than average, highlighting the link between deprivation and poor education outcomes.

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

The gap between the immediate college enrollment rates for students from high - income and low - income families was 14 percentage points smaller in 2016 (16 percentage points) than in 2000 (30 percentage points).

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

Evans, Edgewater, and West Orange high schools saw jumps of more than 10 percentage points in their graduation rates between the 2011 and 2014 school years.

Disadvantaged girls perform better than disadvantaged boys, on average, and the attainment gap between the genders is 8 percentage points.

Figure 1 shows that the gap in degree attainment between high - and low - income families more than doubled during this period, from 14 to 37 percentage points [7](note that in the highly structured English curriculum, enrollment and completion are almost the same thing, in contrast to the U.S. [8]-RRB-.

An increase in NAEP proficiency rates of 32 percentage points — the difference between Washington DC and Massachusetts — is associated with an increase in citizen ratings of more than a half of a letter grade.

The DfE points out that between 2011 and 2016, the rate of entry into teaching has remained higher than the percentage of qualified teachers leaving the profession (see main image).

This would mean a change of 84 percentage points in the population that is African American, for example, which is larger than the average difference between the most in - boundary neighborhoods with the highest boundary participation rates and others.

The state's decision to change both the way it tests students and the way it translates student scores into a ranking means that dozens of schools saw their standings sink or soar by 50 or more percentage points between 2014 and 2016 — far more movement than experts say can be explained by typical changes in schools from one year to the next.

Achieve's report found that more than half the states had a gap of 30 percentage points or more between the higher percentages of students scoring proficient on state tests compared with the lower number hitting what the national assessment tests deem as proficient in 2013 - 14.

In 1990 the state reached its high point of funding 45 % of the costs — the number now is between 38 - 40 % depending on how you calculate it — but the formula has been «corrupted» to the point where wealthy towns do much better (as measured by percentage growth) now than they did in 1990 and poorer towns do much worse.

On the old reading tests given in 2014, the gaps between whites on the one hand and blacks and low - income students on the other were about ten percentage points smaller than on the PARCC.

This, by the way, is a faster decline in illiteracy than the four percentage point decline in white fourth - graders reading Below Basic (from 25 percent in 2002 to 21 percent in 2013); the percentage of white fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by one percentage point between 2011 and 2013.

Storey County, Lincoln County and SPCSA increased their graduation rates by more than 9 percentage points, while Carson City, Lyon, Lander and Elko Counties saw their graduation rates increase between 5 and 7 percentage points.

Boston, Massachusetts, which had a particularly contentious relationship with court ordered integration, saw the percentage of white students in public school plummet by more than 40 points between 1970 and 1990, a change that can not be explained by simple increases in the minority population:

Meanwhile more students were reading at proficient and advanced level, increasing by three points (from 31 percent to 34 percent), a faster level of growth than the two percentage point clip between 1998 and 2002.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.

With a sustained focus on these efforts over the course of more than a decade, the district's black - white achievement gap narrowed by 29 percentage points between 2003 and 2009.

The 6 - month change in employment (using Household Survey data) had turned negative and the spread between 2 - year Treasury yields and the Fed Funds rates fell to less than -1.3 percentage points.

as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent, inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

We observed more variation for adjustable rate mortgages than fixed rates, with a spread of 0.76 percentage points between the lowest and highest offer.

Generally, VA loans come with an interest rate between half a percentage point and a full percentage point lower than conventional loans do.

This exclusivity has given way to competitive interest rates, usually between 0.5 and a full percentage point lower than with traditional loans.

Usually, the rates are between 0.5 to a full percentage point lower than with conventional loans.