Main outcome measures The proportion of grant proposals that were always, sometimes, and never funded after accounting for random variability arising from differences in panel members' scores, and the cost effectiveness of different size assessment panels.
Given that poorer people normally spend a greater proportion of income on food, it is not surprising that a relatively small proportion of grant or overall spending is on education; nevertheless, the data does suggest that the grant helps parents to afford education.
I have said to all of them [and] the Arts Council they should try and increase the proportion of grants they give outside of London.
But putting a precise figure on the proportion of grants 'fronted' in this way is of course impossible: There simply are no 'hard' data, only anecdotal evidence.
At the same time, competition has intensified: Since 1996, the number of grant applicants to the NIH has more than doubled, leading to a fall in the proportion of grants awarded, from 27percentt in 1996 to 19percentt in 2005.
OAR will continue this process for the next few years as grants turn over; if the same proportion of grants is deemed low priority in future years, the total could come to more than $400 million.
The proportion of granted patents among these applications is on average 70% until 2000, decreasing since then.
From 2001, however, patent applications continued to increase while the number and proportion of granted patents found in the database decreased.
Costs were expressed in Australian dollars and the effectiveness outcome by the proportion of grants effectively funded.
The proportion of grants devoted to public health is a fraction of the total medical research pool, and within the public health field funding for political research is virtually absent.
Thus, the growing flood of grant applications surpasses growth in NIH dollars, reduces the proportion of grants that are funded, and renders peer review increasingly arbitrary because a project ranked in the 20th percentile is often no less meritorious than one ranked in the 10th percentile (Berg, 2013).
