The word ‘rate’ is also frequently applied to the number of births
So what word do we use for the number of unemployed people expressed as a percentage of all in employment, or the number of births as a percentage of the population
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Friday, January 02, 2009
The going rate
“The unemployment rate is just above one million” is the kind of sentence which irritates me, even when it comes in a helpful article such as that recently written by Tom Whipple in The Times
The word ‘rate’ is also frequently applied to the number of births
So what word do we use for the number of unemployed people expressed as a percentage of all in employment, or the number of births as a percentage of the population
The word ‘rate’ is also frequently applied to the number of births
So what word do we use for the number of unemployed people expressed as a percentage of all in employment, or the number of births as a percentage of the population
