"the equivalent proportion" is a perfectly valid phrase that can be used in written English
It is used to refer to an equal ratio or percentage. For example, "In the study, 60% of the participants rated themselves as having low self-esteem, which was the equivalent proportion as the previous study."
In the Austrian cities and in Strasbourg, the equivalent proportion was around one out of four.
Nonetheless, an increase in the rate that we estimated for Galemys would only reduce, in the equivalent proportion, the split time of the mitochondrial lineages.
To set this in overall context, a US study showed that almost a fifth of all physician visits for arthritis were to orthopaedic surgeons [ 12]: the equivalent proportion in Canada was 15% [ 5].
It is worth noting that in our study the proportion of hazardous drinkers is around two thirds of the men and half of the women who drank at least one unit in the last week, whereas the equivalent proportion in England [ 27] is half of the men and one third of the women.
In seven countries with data from nationally representative surveys conducted between 2009 and 2011, the proportion of men who had never had an HIV test varied from 27% in Rwanda and 47.5% in Malawi to 81% in Mozambique and 91% in Madagascar, whereas the equivalent proportion for women ranged from 23% in Rwanda and 27% in Malawi to 74% in Congo and 86% in Madagascar [7].
However, these figures are little different from the equivalent proportions of 66%and57%7% respectively among those who believe Scotland would be able to keep the pound.
In the children with a positive malaria slide, RCPF and haemolysis were found in 61 (42.1%) and 26 (17.9%) and in the sub-group with a high malaria parasite count (more then 104/uL), the equivalent proportions were 36.6% and 17.1%.
For daily or almost daily use the equivalent proportions were 13 and 8% in this age group.
The equivalent proportions for females that did not breed within their natal group were substantially lower, at 4.46% and 0.89%, respectively.
It is likely that this difference is due to the relatively low occurrence of S531L and the equivalent proportions of katG and inhA mutations in our cohort.
The proportions of virulence genes conserved between Db11 and SM39 (73%) and between this common set and the other Serratia strains (50%) are markedly lower than the equivalent proportions of the entire gene sets (84.5% and 71%, respectively).
