The high rate of response from the substantive branches in completing their procurement plans is commendable.

What is most notable is the high response rate from the Arab region. At 86 per cent, this is the highest rate of response from that region in the history of these surveys.7

I got an almost 100 percent response rate.

The main reasons for the low response rate may include

The very high rate of teen pregnancy has resulted in an equally high maternal mortality rate among young women.

She also expressed concern that despite the high literacy rate, the fertility rate, at 4.3, remained high and the contraceptive prevalence rate, 33 per cent in 1999, was low.

And then it's a high savings rate.

The Secretariat was requested to analyse the reasons for the poor response rate.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

The need to provide more guidelines on how to cover and measure the activities of small units or unincorporated enterprises and how to deal with their high non response rate was also recognized.

In response to concerns expressed during the consideration of its third periodic report about the high Caesarean rate, the State party had pointed out that measures implemented in the context of the National Health Care Plan for 2002 2004 would result in a decrease in that rate.

We will have to decide whether to have a low birth rate, or a high death rate.

The success rate of the nerve transfers is very high.

The fertility rate is high, at 6.6 children per woman.

A gender action plan specifically targeted to the Darfur emergency would also be implemented and would focus on prevention and response measures to address the high rate of reported incidents of sexual and gender based violence.

National statistical offices would find a response rate of 67 per cent to be barely acceptable.

During the reporting period, 20 completed surveys were received (a response rate of 70 per cent).

For chemicals included in Annex III prior to entry into force of the Convention, there were 1,690 responses, an overall response rate of 74.5 per cent, while for those chemicals added at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, for which a response is required by 30 October 2005, there were 427 responses, an overall response rate of 46 per cent, leading to an overall response rate for all of those chemicals of 66 per cent.

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

This is an even lower response rate than that obtained for the fifth and sixth quinquennial surveys.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

Ms. Šimonović expressed concern at the high overall illiteracy rate and asked what steps were being taken to reduce the rate.

But European officials hesitant response to the crisis added to the difficulty. Prolonged controversies over the terms and conditions of assistance and the absurdly high interest rate initially set on official loans exacted a heavy toll on countries already under stress.

A significant factor among indigenous female prisoners is the high rate of recidivism.

We have about a 60 percent response rate and improved survival for these pets that were about to be euthanized.

However, it has since strengthened its procedures, and the response rate for the period ending December 2004 showed significant improvement.

The Bedouin population has a high rate of unemployment and low socio economic state.

(f) Research on high data rate satellite communications systems using optical and millimetre wave techniques

Now, the rate is still too high still too many people unnecessarily losing their lives.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the high rate of abortion of the girl foetus.

Although the epidemic appears to have peaked, transmission rate among the vulnerable population remains high.

Given the Gambia's high illiteracy rate, she wondered whether the NGOs had access to radio.

The vacancy rate for professional posts at the Economic Commission for Africa was too high.

Ms. Khan said the high rate of maternal mortality, exacerbated by the lack of access to family planning and reproductive health services and the high rate of clandestine abortions, was indicative of the poor quality of health care available to women.

Our 27 percent obesity rate is high, even for this country, and diabetes comes with it.

Though their loan recipients were high risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.

Unemployment remains high, at a rate between 36 and 41 per cent in the Gaza Strip.

The improved maintenance of business registers and increased use of administrative data go a long way in reducing the response burden, improving the response rate of economic enquiries and minimizing the resources required for data collection.

However, it has since strengthened its procedures such that the response rate for the period that ended in December 2004 has significantly improved.

6. Notes with great concern the high vacancy rate in the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

This is a pro amateur, or pro am media critic who has this high fan out rate.

But if you give people vitamin D supplements, you don't change that high rate of heart disease.

The Committee is also concerned about the high junior middle school dropout rate in some rural areas.

The UK accepts that its air dropped cluster bombs have a failure rate that is unacceptably high.

Whereas in outlying rural areas the rate was still rather high, in Beirut, it was virtually zero.