The same magnitude of variation was found with regard to quotas of involuntary admissions, i.e. the proportion of civil commitments of all admissions.
The proportion of men with initial commitment to circumcision was 11%, which is lower than in studies conducted in Africa where the median acceptability averaged 65% (range 29 87%) [49].
Criteria for desirable outcomes could include the ability to raise the proportion of total activity devoted to journalism; commitments to distinctiveness and original/investigative journalism; commitments to multi-media training and willingness to/arrangements for syndication of news stories to other news organisations, whether nationally, regionally or locally".
39 Furthermore, we were not able to include any information about nurses' work-life balance or about the proportion of nurses with children or family commitments.
In addition the broadcaster has announced a commitment to increase the proportion of its spend on original commissions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by 50% by 2012.
Just this month the government reaffirmed its commitment to increasing the proportion of outsourced services it buys from small and medium-sized businesses.
Persuasion theory suggests that obtaining verbal commitment will increase the proportion of patients who will actually complete the test [ 22, 23].
By contrast, in 2008, 86% of Dominicans and 93% of people living in the Latin American and Caribbean region had access to improved drinking water, and 83% and 80% had access to improved sanitation, respectively.6 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7 encompasses a commitment to halving the proportion of the world's population without access to improved water and sanitation by 2015.
There were also commitments to increase the proportion of energy provided by renewable sources, such as wind, wave, and solar power.
Despite this growth, the report notes that "the proportion of 2014 doctorate recipients who reported definite commitments for employment or a postdoc position was at or near the lowest level of the past 15 years".
