Though overdose death rates have risen for every age group, late-wave Boomers (ages 55 to 64) have seen the most dramatic percentage-point spike since 1999.
The bank that fared the worst was MPS, which suffered a dramatic 14 percentage point fall in its capital position.
The shift in attention appears dramatic: the percentage of 15- to 17-year-olds who say that voting is not important has dropped from 52percentt in 2002 to 9percentt in January of this year, according to surveys from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a youth-focused research organization.
We've heard a lot over the years about the increase in women in the workforce, and the numbers are indeed dramatic: The percentage of adult American women who are employed climbed from about 37% in 1965 to about 55% in 2008, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Kathleen Sibert, the president and chief executive of the Arlington Street People's Assistance Network, noted that because Arlington has a relatively small homeless population, modest fluctuations can create dramatic-looking percentage increases or decreases.
After four years of dramatic improvement, the percentage of the population with no insurance leveled off this year and almost certainly will tick back upward somewhat in 2018.
Changes in percentages of CD4- and CD8-cells over the 8-year period were not dramatic; in females, percentages of CD8-cells increased significantly in early- to mid-life and then stabilized.
But tiny increases or decreases in statistics, especially in counties or cities where the crime rate is already low, can cause dramatic swings in percentages that render them meaningless.
West Virginia's reduction was most dramatic: a 14.8-percentage point decline to 9percentt.
