However, since mandatory recording only began in 2001, there are just three full years of comparable data.
The study was of English schools because comparable data is not available from schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Officials said they didn't have comparable data from previous years readily available.
Since last year was the first after their relocation from Atlanta, The Winnipeg Jets fans were excluded from the final ranking due to a lack of comparable data.
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In 1998, the last year for which comparable data are available, the United States, with 68 executions, was the third-biggest executioner in the world, after China (1, 067) and Congo (100), and just ahead of Iran (66).
The company, which operates in more than 120 countries, said revenue generated outside the Eurozone rose 11.6 percent in 2012 based on comparable data and accounted for 78.6 percent of sales for the year, versus 77.9 percent in 2011.
There are various comparable-data sources--eBay and Kelly Blue Book (for the van) are two examples.
Interestingly, data tied to comparable natural disasters suggest that home prices tend to be inversely affected.
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For a new data centre (or an extensive retrofit), they figure that going with their immersive solution will result in building costs that are 30 to 40 per cent less than traditional data centres of comparable capacity.
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As data is not directly comparable to previous studies, it is also problematic to analyze development over time.
Yet, even from 1980 we have data attesting to relatively comparable pay, even considering innate productivity and discipline of the actors.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
Data have also become more comparable between cities and even between countries.
While Britain and the US record similar data, few others are comparable, says Danny Dorling, professor of human geography in the University of Sheffield.
Intensified operations at the KGB's signals intelligence collection facility at Lourdes, Cuba to obtain comparable commercial, as well as military data from much of the southern eastern United States.
As a national health service it contains more data about health than any other comparable health system in the world.
The system compares that data with the most recent sales of comparable vehicles.
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It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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Its algorithm attaches an automatic weighting to every data point, according to its consistency with comparable readings.
Mr. Shockey said early data suggest Facebook ads using the targeting methods are comparable to Google Inc.
It is directly comparable with the current drive, particularly within the scientific community, towards open data and data-sharing.
Hadoop does not provide data protection in the form of snapshots and mirrors required features for comparable systems.
Local air passenger traffic declined 2.9% during January to November 2012--the most recent period for which comparable numbers are available--to 53.41 million, according to government data.
Data were not fully available for 2011, so any whiskers would not be comparable to the others.
Output of the UK economy is measured by Gross Domestic Product figures but to date there are no comparable figures to illustrate the performance of the Northern Ireland economy due to the lack of data.
Taking a lead from the utility market, where OPower uses data from utilities to let consumers know how their energy use stacks up against comparable households, the car companies could let customers know how their fuel efficiency compares with other owners of the same type of vehicle, then suggest ways to improve.
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