Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point which»

Perhaps the margin of error is less than a percentage point which would mean there are twice as many eReader owners as Tablet owners.

Not exact matches

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

The company's stock dropped 8 % (which is still three percentage points more than the BlackBerry's market share) in early November after analysts at Pacific Coast Securities said the BlackBerry 10 would be dead on arrival.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

Apple originally had planned to pay music owners 71.5 % of Apple Music's subscription revenue after the trial period ended, Re / code previously reported, which was «a few percentage points higher than the industry standard,» to account for the longer trial period.

I highlighted the 1.08 percent average expense ratio of «similar funds,» which is 1.03 percentage points higher than Vanguard's advertised expense ratio.5 The Investment Company Institute finds an average expense ratio of 0.89 percent for actively managed equity funds, versus 0.12 percent for equity index funds, or a 0.77 percentage point difference.

The ISM ® Non-Manufacturing Inventory Sentiment Index in April registered 60 percent, which is 1.5 percentage points higher than the 58.5 percent that was reported in March.

The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ®) Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: «The NMI ® registered 56.8 percent, which is 2 percentage points lower than the March reading of 58.8 percent.

The New Export Orders Index registered 61.5 percent, which is 3.5 percentage points higher than the 58 percent reported in March.

-LRB-...) the big driver was what the Bureau of Economic Analysis dubs motor vehicles -LRB-...), production of which hiked first - quarter GDP by 1.12 percentage points, more than double the rise they provided in last year's fourth quarter.

Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is at 45 %, which is about 12 percentage points higher than January's all - time low.

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.

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.

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.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Fully 42 percent of Catholic baby boomers are currently unchurched, which is a mere three percentage points lower than the figure for mainline Protestants.

Seventy - four percent of dealers reported increased sales and 16 percent reported a decline in sales, which is 8 percentage points better than last year.

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.

Much larger, as Silver happily points out, than the average polling miss in the US which is about two percentage points.

Overall, Muslim schools have on average 34 percentage points fewer «white British» pupils than would be expected for ethnically diverse schools in the areas in which they are located.

Republicans have spent more than $ 10 million to prevent a defeat in the district, which Trump won in 2016 by 20 percentage points.

The employer share is a flat 8 percent, which is roughly equal to the predicted, theoretical «normal» rate for Tier 6 but about 10 percentage points less than the current average rate for all New York State Employee Retirement System (NYSERS) members.

Her favorable rating is at 38 percent, which is 4 percentage points lower than Trump and 11 points lower than Obama in 2012.

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

Today, researchers at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science), previewed data from a recent poll showing that when the word «human» is replaced with «elephant» in the evolution question, 75 % of Americans agree — about 25 percentage points higher than before.

Model 1, which controlled for demographic characteristics, showed that applications from black investigators were 13.1 percentage points (P <.001) less likely to be awarded an R01 than white investigators, and applications from Asian and Hispanic investigators were 5.4 (P <.001) and 2.7 (P <.05) percentage points less likely to be awarded, respectively.

In the first year in which funding was available, the kindergarten enrollment rate in the typical state was about 15 percentage points higher than would have been the case in the absence of state funding.

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.

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.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

When results from the 2010 tests, which state officials said presented a more accurate portrayal of students» abilities, were released last month, they came as a blow to the legacy of the mayor and the chancellor, as passing rates dropped by more than 25 percentage points on most tests.

In the 19 states that have such exit exams, the percentage of English - language learners who pass the mathematics exit exam on the first try is 30 to 40 percentage points lower than the overall initial pass rates, which range from 70 to 90 percent.

That's nearly 20 percentage points lower than the proficiency expectations the Evergreen State has set for districts in improving achievement of white middle - school students, which, in turn, are slightly lower than for Asian peers.

New elementary school teacher salaries in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries increase on average by 32 percent over the first 15 years of teaching, which is almost 10 percentage points higher than in the United States.

Even better, 80 percent of black male students now graduate within six years, which is slightly higher than the rate for black females and an improvement of 18 percentage points.

In places like Cambridge, Massachusetts, which uses choice to achieve economic diversity in its schools, graduation rates for low - income, Black and Hispanic students are as much as 20 percentage points higher than for comparable groups in nearby Boston.

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.

Students who participated in a choice program had an 82 percent graduation rate, which is 12 percentage points higher than those not selected to participate.

About 46 percent of Washington's students qualified for free or reduced - price meals, which was about 4 percentage points higher than the statewide average, according to fiscal year 2016 data from the state Department of Public Instruction.

The law, which passed by a slim majority of less than 2 percentage points, will allow no more than 40 charters schools to be opened over the next five years.

International tests show that in places like Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong, the percentage of 15 - year - olds who are functionally innumerate - which means unable to perform basic calculations - was more than 10 percentage points lower than in England.

The graduation rate for low - income students, for example, is 15 percentage points lower than it is for middle class and affluent students, which is 88.2 percent, according to the report.

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:

In the same time, 90 percent of Madison students not considered to be economically disadvantaged graduated in four years, which is three percentage points lower than the statewide rate.

Chevrolet grew retail market share in 2015 - 2016 by almost one full percentage point, which translates to more than 120,000 incremental sales.

«Interest rates for 30 - year fixed mortgages are now almost a half percentage point higher than the record low set in mid-November,» says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac's chief economist, Freddie Mac, «which for a $ 200,000 conventional loan amounts to $ 50 more in monthly payments.»

Let's say the risk - free rate of return is 1 %, the market itself is expected to return 4 percentage points more than the risk - free rate (so the market's risk premium is 4 %), and a stock has a beta of 1.5, which makes it more risky than the market.