Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point per»

Wages are down, growing less than a percentage point per quarter, down payments of 5 - 20 percent with traditional loans are an impediment to buyers and student loan debt is preventing a massive segment of young adults from buying.

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But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

Inflation is estimated to rise by somewhat less than 1/4 percentage point per annum over 2 — 3 years.

The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate in May fell to 7.8 per cent in the three months to May, 0.2 percentage point lower than the previous two - month period.

Roughly 82 per cent of the prime - age population is now employed, about 13 percentage points higher than 40 years ago.

In the June quarter, the unemployment rate in the capital cities was 6.1 per cent, almost a percentage point lower than a year earlier.

If undertaken over five years, the 1.5 percentage point hike for employers would be just 0.3 per cent per year, which is less than ordinary year - to - year variations in wages.

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.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

Citing emerging domestic price pressures and stronger - than - expected household spending and housing market activity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its policy rate by 1/4 of a percentage point in January to 5 1/4 per cent.

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.

Results from the Bank's latest quarterly survey of financial market economists show that the median inflation forecast is 2.1 per cent over the year to June 2004, before picking up to 2.4 per cent over the year to June 2005; forecasts for both periods are lower than they were in November 2003 by 0.1 percentage points (Table 16).

Working for themselves is also top of mind for many millennials with 74 per cent saying they thought of owning their own business, 11 percentage points higher than the average Canadian adult.

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

At the end of 2003, the unemployment rate stood at 5.6 per cent, 1/2 a percentage point lower than its level a year earlier (Graph 42).

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

I think the percentage of atheists versus believers is higher than the number you provide, and I also think the important point (perhaps implied by tallulah) is that per person, there is more anger on the side of the theists than the nonbelievers.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Using our statistical filters, we were able to isolate teams with a three - point shooting percentage of greater than 30 % with defenses that allow less than 95 points per game (ppg).

The BoG has a medium - term inflation target of no more than eight per cent, plus or minus two percentage points.

The 10.6 percentage - point margin of victory for the No camp — despite Labour haemorrhaging almost 40 per cent of its voters to Yes — was wider than pollsters had predicted.

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.

If a given country's per - capita growth rate is 1 percentage point faster than average, economists attribute only 0.06 percentage points of this to the fact that human capital has grown faster than average.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

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

A NAHT survey of its members has found that the number of schools currently in deficit has more than doubled since its 2015 survey (up 10 percentage points from 8 per cent to 18 per cent).

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.

More than half - 51 per cent - felt change was managed well — up by eight percentage points from last year.

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.

Looking at the data across the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, we find that teachers are about 9 to 11 percentage points more likely than other Americans as a whole to pray one or more times per day.

But while teachers in the United States have a higher starting salary, Canadian teachers quickly surpass their American peers, with the average mid-career teacher in Canada earning $ 56,349 per year — almost 60 percentage points higher than their starting salary.

Teachers are absent from traditional public schools more than 10 times per year at a rate that is 15.2 percentage points higher than in charter schools.

Following policy pushes to encourage schools to be more involved in training, the proportion of postgraduates training through a school - based route has increased by more than 15 percentage points over just the last two years, meaning that for the first time nearly half (49 per cent) are training this way.

The interest rate can be a fixed rate, but is typically a few percentage points per year higher than for a mortgage secured by a permanent house.

Over the past five years, the fund, a member of the Kiplinger 25, returned an annualized 6.7 % — 2.0 percentage points per year more than Barclay's U.S. Aggregate Bond index.

(Investors can also take a more relaxed approach because the three earnings - based portfolios still outperformed the index by more than four percentage points per year when they were rebalanced annually instead of monthly.)

Similarly, applying this method to a global portfolio with four asset classes and rebalancing monthly, would have generated gains of 12.1 % per year, beating the classic Couch Potato by 2.1 percentage points per year and with only a little more volatility than the regular version.

formed the index by more than four percentage points per year when they were rebalanced annually instead of monthly.)

For this she pays fees that are competitive with general private investment counsel rates of about 1 % to 1.5 % of assets per year — more than one percentage point lower than what she was paying before.

Bought stocks performed 3.3 percentage points per year worse than sold stocks, as measured by price changes after the swap was made.

In stodgy old Britain, nominal GDP growth has averaged just 4.9 %, but investment returns have been 6.1 % per annum, more than nine percentage points ahead of booming China.

VICTORIA — About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government intervened with a new tax.

The standard of living rises not with inflation, but with per capita GDP, which in the U.S. has grown 1.8 percentage points a year faster than inflation over the 50 years through year - end 2015.

One - and 3 - year FHA ARMs may not adjust more than one percentage point per year after the fixed period is over, and no more than 5 percentage points over the life of the loan.

If Fabian the son had simply followed the 39 - week moving average system to switch between an index fund and cash, since 1992 his newsletter would have produced a profit more than two percentage points per year higher than it actually did.

Because of our greedy and fearful investment decisions, we earn returns that are several percentage points per year lower than the overall market.

But even though stocks are more volatile than bonds, historically they have returned an average of four percentage points per year more.

In the past decade, both funds score top rankings, with Growth gaining 10.9 % annualized, or an average 3.3 percentage points more per year than the S&P 500, and Income earning 11.2 % annualized, or an average 3.6 points a year better than the index.

The DALBAR Institute 2012 study showed that investors receive three percentage points less per year than the S&P 500 generated from 1992 to 2012, and the average holding period for a typical investor is six months.