Sentences with phrase «where national average»

This is the 11th time this year where the national average card APR has established a new record high.

Or it could be trying to build reserves in a riskier housing market where national average home prices are down over 10 per cent in one year.

Not exact matches

Those dollars stretch a lot further in a metro area where housing costs are quite a bit lower than the national average.

Theroux travels to Huntington, West Virginia, where one in 10 babies are reportedly born addicted to opiates and the fatal overdose rate is 13 times the national average.

To see both sides, Theroux meets with both the Milwaukee Police Department's homicide division as they patrol District 5 - where the homicide average is over 12 times the national average - and with families and local social activists in the area.

Out of the 25 metros, the narrowest gender wage gap overall is in Tampa, Florida, where women make approximately 89 % of the median salary for men — higher than the national average.

These are areas in which the median home sale price increased last year to a point where they exceed the national average handily.

However, in specific counties where the cost of living is higher than typical, and the typical home sale price is well above the national average, the FHFA assigns 2016 conforming mortgage loan limits to be a little higher.

According to the Federal Reserve's weekly observations of the national average, five - year CD rates experienced rapid decline ever since 2009, from a high of 2.30 % APY to around 0.80 %, where it has remained since 2013.

Furthermore, the best job opportunities are increasingly clustered in a handful of superstar cities, where real estate prices are far above the national average, making homeownership an even more distant dream.

Despite Victorian growers» production costs being considerably higher than the national average, their rate of return was outperforming the national average for most years (except in 2011 - 12, where Victorian growers expended the most on contracted work out of any other year).

In discussing how to avoid a cesarean, make sure you know if the hospital where you are planning to give birth is on the high or low end of the national average.

This case study details the successful national scale - up of Helping Babies Breathe in Colombia, where the neonatal mortality rate has been stable, but remains slightly higher than the average rate in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Facilities were divided into two categories: 1) those in zip code areas where the percentage of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011)(6) and 2) those in zip code areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 %.

The results of that analysis indicated that facilities in zip code areas where the percentage of black residents was > 12.2 % (the national average during 2007 — 2011) were less likely than facilities in zip code areas where the percentage was ≤ 12.2 % to meet five of 10 mPINC indicators for recommended practices supportive of breastfeeding and more likely to implement one practice; differences for the other four practices were not statistically significant.

In most places it costs more to rent than it does to buy and the problem is particularly acute in London, where those on national average incomes find themselves priced out to the very end of the Tube line.

Then we identified the marginal seats where the gap between the top two parties was less than 15 per cent, and the share of «left - behinds» was well above the national average.

«To the point where competition among the Oil Marketing Companies remains high, market price for both Brent crude and refined oil dropping in average price terms, added to the appreciation of the Cedi against the U.S. dollar, and increasing national fuel stock; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) believe that there is enough positive momentum and fundamental justification to move the prices of Petrol and Diesel lower on the local market,» IES said in a release signed by Gilbert Richmond Rockson, Principal Research Analyst.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Many of these people live in areas where jobs are available and «there actually tends to be more vacancies in areas with low employment rates than the national average», Mr Hutton told the IPPR.

The jobs picture was gloomier upstate, where employment grew by an average of only 2.7 percent — a quarter of the national average.

«This 56 - unit residential building is unique in that even in our nation's inner most cities, where homeownership rates sit well below the national average, hardworking people of modest means have the opportunity of owning their own homes to improve not only their lives, but the lives of future generations that follow.

That's because they are tied to the STAR program, where benefits are higher in places where the price of a home exceeds the national average.

Today's Daily Telegraph splashes with the news that public sector pay continues to grow under Labour: «The Office for National Statistics disclosed that, in the three months to October, state workers received an average annual rise of 2.8 % This was close to triple that seen in the private sector, where pay edged up by 1.1 %.

His three - pronged legislation would set up a «People's Fund» to provide financial support in those federal races where grassroots candidates face special - interest spending that exceeds national averages.

Remember that the national average includes two regions where UKIP will struggle to exceed 10 % (Scotland and London).

They call it the Lake Wobegon Effect, named for Garrison Keelor's fictional hometown from the National Public Radio show, «where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average.»

There is a smoking belt leading from Michigan to Mississippi, including several adjacent states in the Midwest and Appalachia, where smoking prevalence is substantially above the national average.

One suggestion could be to head for Quesnel in British Columbia, where 30 % of singles say they don't want children, making it the least parentally inclined city in Canada (as is clear to see when that 30 % is compared with the national average of 18 %).

One suggestion could be to head for Alexandra in Otago, where 23 % of singles say they don't want children, making it the least parentally inclined city in New Zealand (as is clear to see when that 23 % is compared with the national average of 14 %).

I consider myself above average in many respects and seek a hot young (or older) lady to join me for fun within Geneva National, where I live in Lake Geneva, and, of course, elsewhere.

Leading the pack is North Battleford, where 53 % of singles say that they definitely want to have children - a far higher percentage than the national «yes» average of 38.5 %.

For the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 states.

More than 45 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

But there were only eight chains where poorer pupils with top grades at primary schools made more progress than the national average.

In schools where the number of children obtaining the EBacc was above the national average in 2015 - 2016, 73.2 per cent of pupils taking up an arts subject achieved grades A * - C - compared to the national average of 71.7 per cent.

Only 1 percent of students attend school in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

With a master's degree in hand, Dungan returned to North Carolina, where the homeschooling rate is almost twice the national average.

In those schools where the percentage of children obtaining the EBacc was above the national average in 2015/16, 73.2 per cent of arts entrants achieved an A * - C grade compared to a national average of 71.7 per cent.

Due to Simpson's Paradox, where the size of the group can mask aggregated data, the scores of white students, black students, and Hispanic students all gained more than the national average.

The secondary expertise behind this free school will comes from the Glyn School, judged to be «outstanding» by Ofsted in May 2012, where pupils achieve results that have consistently exceeded the national and local averages.

New York's students are closer to the national average, but its student scores are roughly where they were in 2003, the year after the city adopted mayoral control.

However a further analysis found only a minority of schools where long - term disadvantaged pupils have value - added scores at or above the national average of 100.

A score of more than 1,000 - a dot on the right of the graph - would mean a school where the results were better than the national average once you have taken the pupils» prior academic records into account.

I asked you for some citation re your rather dramatic claims about the alleged «Faustian bargain» where teachers unions agreed to have CA's education spending lost in the nation, the class sizes highest in the nation, and all with the ultimate objective of having salaries, according to RAND, that are below the national average.

The researchers utilized a dataset of elementary schoolchildren from a large - scale urban district where the rates of chronic absenteeism were expected to be higher compared to the national average.

I strongly discouraged the prospects of teaching in any California high school due to the abysmal student to teacher ratios where California high school teachers are assigned twice the number of students relative to the national average.

The government points to areas such as Nottingham, where a high proportion of children are eligible for free school meals and results are below the national average.

This, by the way, in a school system where per pupil spending averages $ 13,000 annually, above the national average (and well above what any socialist or communist country has ever spent per pupil on education.)