| They analyzed baseline serum vitamin A concentration in relation to risk for hip fractures as a continuous variable and by quintiles. |
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| That quintile between Pluto and Uranus met and re-met altogether five times, and Plutonium was created at the last of these five quintiles. |
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| For example, leftists point to studies showing that the gap between the bottom quintile and the top two quintiles is increasing. |
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| A lack of food security, especially among members of some social groups and wealth quintiles, threatens inclusive development. |
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| The low level of wealth in at least the bottom two quintiles of the income distribution suggests that substantial numbers of people are likely to face such constraints. |
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| These ranked families were then divided into five equal groups called quintiles. |
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| Income quintiles divide all Canadians into five equal-sized groups based on household income. |
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| In 18 of these countries, the gap between the child mortality rates of the richest and poorest quintiles has either grown or remained unchanged. |
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| In particular, bottom quintiles appear to lose considerably more than the middle and upper quintiles when the UI system becomes less generous. |
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| Only the richest 20 per cent of households receive a significantly smaller proportion of this benefit than other quintiles. |
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| In a second test, they took the five-year growth rates of the economies and divided them into quintiles. |
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| For both the bottom and top quintiles of families, the income tax rate fell by 0.8 percentage points. |
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| It is sometimes helpful to think of quintiles in terms of a ladder with five rungs. |
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| In 1980, a majority of voters in three out of five income quintiles reported choosing the Democratic candidate, and the fourth quintile was nearly tied. |
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| We included estimates of the inequality ratio and inequality gap, based on equivalized household income quintiles. |
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| Greater attention is needed to disaggregate not only by reference to rural and urban areas, but also to the upper and lower wealth quintiles of the population. |
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| For several of the MDGs, the rate of progress for the poorest quintiles of populations is often far behind the target's average country improvement. |
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| Families in the fourth and middle quintiles experienced no change in their share of after-tax income between 1998 and 1999, while those in the bottom and second quintiles experienced a slight increase. |
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| By 1990 and 2000, recent immigrant families were increasingly concentrated in the bottom two quintiles and increasingly under-represented at the top. |
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| That will almost certainly negatively affect health-seeking behaviour and the utilization of health services, especially in the poorest quintiles, further deteriorating the health status of those populations. |
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| When household incomes are disaggregated by quintiles, women's highest unemployment rates by comparison with men's are to be found in the lowest-income quintiles. |
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| The use of skilled birth attendants, however, has risen between 2005 and 2007 by women in all wealth quintiles except the highest quintile. |
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| Quintiles will have its own staff at the CAP-certified Medca Japan laboratory in Saitama, a city in the Greater Tokyo area. |
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| WebMD Corporation and Quintiles Transnational in October settled an 8-month legal battle over patient data. |
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| The new GIP industry members, EMD Serono, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Pfizer, and Quintiles will join founding partners Amgen, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, PPD, and Roche. |
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| Kelly joins Quintiles from Aetna, where he was the head of Informatics, leading its efforts to measure the quality and affordability of healthcare. |
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