Sentence examples for percentile from inspiring English sources

Research shows that highly anxious students score 12 percentile points lower than averagely anxious ones, and parental pressure increases the risk of children feeling physical symptoms of anxiety and distracted thinking in exams.

In sharp contrast, the richest decile hold 87% of the world's wealth, and the top percentile alone account for 48.2% of global assets," said the annual report, now in its fifth year.

To what question is this the answer?Suppose we were to tax income above the 95th percentile at 100%.

A study by the Equality of Opportunity Project last year says a child born into an Atlanta family with income in the bottom fifth percentile has just a 4.5% chance of making it to the top percentile; in San Francisco the chance is 12.2%.

But the relatively large role of the financial sector in English-speaking countries could also be a factor: even more of the top 1% work in finance in Britain than in America.Membership in America's 1% is relatively stable; three-quarters of the households in the percentile one year will still be there the next.

The 50th (and below) percentile struggled most, he demonstrated, in the 1980s.

Let me therefore present my response.First, to recapitulate, the income of the median worker in the United States has been stagnating since the early 1980s relative to the incomes of workers at the 90th percentile of the income distribution.

First, people at the 10th percentile of the income distribution (e.g. temporary farm workers), were not the population targeted by the affordable housing initiatives.

It takes old utility bills, the square foot measurement of the building, a few other bits of information and crunches all this into a percentile rating.

Perhaps it's the case that the larger the proportion of folks at the tenth percentile who happen to think working hard and "playing by the rules" will benefit them, the smaller the income gap between bottom and middle and the larger the perceived cost of teen motherhood.

But which is worse, a cyclone or a banking crisis?Recent research suggests that it is pretty much a tie: both a banking meltdown or a hefty (90th-percentile) cyclone reduces income per person by about 7.5%.