Sentences with phrase «than the statistics of»

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The average dairy farmer had a net worth of more than $ 3.7 million in 2015, according to data from Statistics Canada, and poultry and eggs farmers were typically worth nearly $ 6 million.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Buried in statistics released by the Energy Information Administration this week indicating the United States is exporting more crude oil than it has in 15 years is a still more startling fact: «Almost all of the crude oil exported from the United States has been delivered to Canada.»

However, even among full - time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women — 8.4 hours, compared with 7.8 hours, respectively, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

«Far more important than dialing down the margin of error is making sure that whatever you're aiming at is unbiased and that you do have a representative sample,» says Andrew Bray, an assistant professor of statistics at Reed College.

Oregon produces between 132 tons (120 metric tons) and 900 tons (816 metric tons) more marijuana than what Oregonians can conceivably consume, the report said, using statistics from the legal industry and estimates of illicit grows.

Household debt as a percentage of disposable income was was 163.3 % in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported last week — only marginally lower than the record 163.9 % ratio the agency calculated for the fourth quarter.

«And a lot of statistics show that people who are searching typically convert at higher rates than your average user who doesn't search.»

Many resent the reduced access to training, promotions and, yes, money (according to Statistics Canada, childless women earn up to 30 % more than mothers) that comes as a result of having kids.

They applied a methodology designed to capture the income - boosting effects of shifting inputs to industries where prices are rising, and they obtained productivity estimates that are much less alarming than those produced by Statistics Canada.

That's right: On average, those sporting scrubs and stethoscopes bring home fatter paychecks than those donning suits and ties, according to the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics» Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates survey.

Although the Institute for Family Studies reports that more husbands than wives admit to being unfaithful, according to The Cut, psychoanalyst and writer Esther Perel cites an increase of 40 % in unfaithful women since 1990, while men's statistics have stayed about the same.

UnionsWA has said that the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that women in Western Australia continue to be paid a far less amount on average than men.

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American spends more than $ 4,000 a year on food for the home.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

In the past decade, nearly 54,000 factories have been shuttered or moved offshore, including 40 percent of facilities with payrolls of more than 1,000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

According to a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that examined data from 30 US states between 2005 and 2010, two thirds of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within three years, and more than a third were arrested after just six months.

Wine jumped 20 percent, beer was up more than 5 percent and gasoline rose more than 2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

Step 4: Assess Your Business's Liability According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1.2 million people reported nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases that required days away from work to recuperate.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 70 percent of mothers with children under 18 are in the workforce.

Below, find eight US schools that are even more selective than some of the Ivies, according to statistics provided on the class of 2020 * admission rates from school websites or admissions offices directly.

The OECD's methodology is slightly different than the one used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics but the results aren't far off; in October, the BLS reported the average U.S. workweek was 34.6 hours.

Maybe for the same reason they're afraid of being attacked by a shark: personal stories are more memorable than statistics.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has hit its highest level in more than 16 years, despite the state's economy adding jobs in March, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

For instance, women in the U.S. spend 150 % more time on housework than men do, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which the study notes.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Even a small number of high - profile accidents could do more than statistics to influence the opinions of lawmakers and potential customers, at least in the short term.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity has only risen 1 % YOY from 2015 to 2016, much less than the typical increase experienced earlier in the decade.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

This is one of several dubious indicators that, while it may appear to be accurate, teaches us more about the fallibility of statistics than the behavior of the market.

But emissions fell just 0.43 percent for every percent decline in GDP per capita, he added, based on a review of World Bank statistics of more than 150 nations from 1960 to 2008.

Kulich added that, according to the site's statistics, North Carolina's taste in porn is more open minded than the passing of the HB2 law would suggest — in March, viewers from the state searched the term «Gay» 319,907 times and «Transsexual» about 400,000 times.

With demand for coding skills stronger than ever, today there are more than 500,000 unfilled programming - related positions across the country, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million more software development jobs than applicants qualified to fill them.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

In 2007, the number of high - tech employees in the region totalled more than 70,000, according to Statistics Canada.

Canadians purchased $ 26,000 more booze in June than in August of last year, according to Statistics Canada, making it the sauciest, and thus best, month.

Most of us, NSF statistics show, get significantly less than the recommended eight hours of nightly rest.

Out of more than 600 jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination of high wages and employment growth over the past five years.

The number of people working on the side has more than doubled in the last 40 years, rising to nearly one million Canadians as of 2015, says Statistics Canada.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. veteran population was more than 21 million strong as of 2014.

Most recently, the U.S. economy added 200,000 jobs in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, better than what economists had predicted.

The social - media giant recently released statistics indicating that more than 65 million users like things daily, and although it's generally more popular among younger users, people of all ages seem to enjoy pressing the like button.

According to official statistics, Oregon's pot farmers have grown three times as much of the herb as the state's smokers can inhale — there's now more than a million pounds out there, unsold.

More women than men were hired for tech jobs this year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.