We chose the following factors for 2007, the year of the survey of dentists: the ratio of dentists to the county population, percentage of women dentists, percentage of females of childbearing age, and percentage of individuals living in poverty 2007.
Instead of rent she will give the county a percentage of the fees earned from its programs for Nassau residents.
The center, which will make at least $150,000 worth of renovations, will not pay rent but will give the county a percentage of the fees earned from its programs for Nassau residents, which the county is unable to provide because of the cost, she said.
In fact, Lincoln County, near Sioux Falls, is the ninth-fastest growing county (by percentage) in the United States.
Wheat acreage per county or percentage of the county's land area dedicated to wheat farming was used in two previous ecologic studies as a surrogate measure of exposure to chlorophenoxy herbicides and/or contaminants, because information on herbicide use by county was not available (Schreinemachers 2000, 2003).
Table 1 Average number of trips per capita (i.e. average for the period 1986–2001) in Swedish counties and percentage change between 1986 and 2001 County Trips/Pop.
Characteristics of the 152 selected counties distributed over three groups based on tertiles of the counties' wheat percentage are presented in Table 1.
Some counties recorded percentage gains even greater than those registered in the state's most diverse county, Queens: the number of Hispanics increased by 147percentt in Putnam, and the number of Asians increased by 63percentt in Nassau.
In both Nassau and Suffolk counties, the percentage of students receiving Regents diplomas has climbed steadily.
According to the 2000 census, some suburban counties had percentage increases in minority populations that exceeded even those registered in Queens.
Sixty of the 100 fastest-growing counties (in percentage terms) were in the South and 38 were in the west and mid-west.
