Example sentences of "the [noun] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally the chapter has described the achieved action and control samples and has shown that they were well matched and that the response rate was good . |
| 2 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 3 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 4 | There is also the temptation to make the questionnaire too long in the hope of getting just that little bit more information , this can more than defeat its object by reducing the response rate . |
| 5 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 6 | In the end there is no answer to this problem , and it is very important , when evaluating published research , to take note of the response rate , and to consider whether it is adequate . |
| 7 | The response rate varied by grade of employment , being 81% in the three higher grade categories ( defined below ) and 68% in the three lower categories . |
| 8 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 9 | This is less than half the response rate obtained in the first survey ( 91 per cent ) . |
| 10 | The final test was the response rate from mothers in requesting a wall poster . |
| 11 | Another development in market research was the ‘ lifestyle questionnaire ’ , but Mr Mouncey warned that a lot more work needed to be done in this area as the response rate was generally low and not statistically significant . |
| 12 | The response rate was 82% ( 397 women , 423 men ) . |
| 13 | The response rate increased with age and was significantly higher in women ( 397 , 85% ) than men ( 423 , 79% ) ( 95% confidence interval for difference 1.1% to 10.6% ) . |
| 14 | The response rate in the 1990 census was 95.3% for establishments and 95.6% for residents ( enumeration of establishments was complete in 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Young ( 1988 ) has , for example , noted that for local and national crime surveys , the response rate ( the proportion of individuals chosen for inclusion in a survey who actually complete a questionnaire ) has never been above 80 per cent . |
| 16 | The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability . |
| 17 | Since returns are still anticipated from most of the remaining 15 courses , the response rate has to be regarded as a preliminary indication of how well the survey worked using course organisers as distributors and collectors . |
| 18 | The response rate on returns to date , then , is 68 per cent . |
| 19 | And even if based on the assumption that no more returns can be included In analysis , the response rate is over 50 per cent of the total number of questionnaires sent out . |
| 20 | Within an overall response rate of 68 per cent , then , the response rate for specialist students was 64 per cent , and 69 per cent for conversion students . |
| 21 | The response rate of CASE students was 85 per cent . |
| 22 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 23 | Yeah , in terms of the response rate |
| 24 | The results of this study suggest that a short primer course and prolongation of therapy may help to enhance the response rate of α-interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis type B. |
| 25 | To analyse whether the response rate was related to treatment modification or selection of patients , the actual response was compared with a predicted response that was obtained with a response model developed by Brook et al . |
| 26 | Since it went on PROFs the response rate is up to 98% . |
| 27 | number of visitors falling into these categories , and this was taken into account when the response rate was calculated . |
| 28 | Although no differences were noted in the fertilization rate and pregnancy rate between smokers and nonsmokers undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer ( IVF-ET ) in one study , the outcome of these pregnancies was not recorded . |
| 29 | The base rate rise is also certain to hit sales of new cars , which fell in September for the first time in 18 months , according to new figures released yesterday . |
| 30 | MORTGAGE lenders were divided yesterday on how they would respond to the base rate hike , but a 1.25 per cent increase in ordinary mortgage rates to 14.75 per cent seemed the most common reaction , probably from 1 November , writes Patrick Hosking . |