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Definition of Percentage point
1. Noun. The dot at the left of a decimal fraction.
Definition of Percentage point
1. Noun. one hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference of two percentages. For example, the difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percentage Point
Literary usage of Percentage point
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sectoral Growth in Chile, 1962-82 by Juan Eduardo Coeymans, Yair Mundlak (1993)
"For instance, a reduction of unemployment by one percentage point increases the
rate of change of real wage in manufacturing by 0.89 percent when the ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"When business originating at a percentage point is destined to some other city,
east of the western trunk line termini, than New York, the customary ..."
3. Oecd Economic Surveys: Norway 2007 by Oecd (2007)
"The effect of an increase in oil investment equivalent to 1 percentage point of
mainland GDP GDP Employment Manufacturing Construction Transport Other ..."
4. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"The inflation and interest rate rules assume each is 1 percentage point greater
... Sustained errors of 0.1 or 1 percentage point are used for the sake of ..."
5. Taxing Wages (2006)
"Generally, only changes exceeding 1 percentage point for average effective rates
and 5 percentage points for marginal effective rates are flagged. ..."
6. OECD Information Technology Outlook: ICTs and the Information Economy by Graham Vickery (2002)
"percentage point contribution of ICT and other capital services to output growth,
1995-2000 1.6 -0.2 Business sector, harmonised price index I Other capital ..."
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