{"id":501,"date":"2015-05-29T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:30:50","slug":"percentages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/symbols\/percentages\/","title":{"rendered":"Percentages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use per cent <\/em>where the number is also spelt out in words; with figures, use the per cent sign without a space between the figure and the symbol.<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nForty-nine per cent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\n65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Note that the per cent sign should follow each of the figures in any given phrase. Therefore, not<\/p>\n

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\"Cross\"<\/a><\/td>\nLibrary survey users rose last semester from 5 to 7%<\/span> of the total 1,500 members.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

but<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nLibrary survey users rose last semester from 5% to 7%<\/span> of the total 1,500 members.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Finally, note the difference between per cent <\/em>and percentage point<\/em>: an increase from 5% to 7%<\/em> would be an increase of two percentage points (or an increase of 40%), not an increase of 2%.<\/p>\n

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Use per cent where the number is also spelt out in words; with figures, use the per cent sign without a space between the figure and the symbol. Forty-nine per cent 65% Note that the per cent sign should follow each of the figures in any given phrase. Therefore, not Library survey users rose last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":443,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}