Homeowner equivalent rent is 25.2% of the input when they calculate the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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They calculate their own productivity and follow complicated spec sheets for a wide variety of designs.
Those disparities influence the way pollsters interpret their raw data and the way they calculate their results.
But the way they calculate what they have a right to fine them is just most odd.
Evan, how have these companies actually changed the way they calculate the scores?
They calculate that within four years this method could even replace insecticide-treated bed nets as a way of controlling mosquitoes.
In reality, scientists do not deal in certainty but in probabilities, and the way they calculate these probabilities is complex.
Rather, they calculate the risks of a situation and will take the risk if they think they can beat the odds.
The answer they calculate is that it will require a cut in carbon intensity by 4.8% per year between now and 2050.
Government and airline officials also are reworking the way they calculate risk.
Extrapolating from this, they calculate that an optimal strategy for surveying 90% of all protein domains would need 16, 000 carefully chosen targets.
They calculate the Olympic brand is worth more than all of its other major sponsors -- including Samsung, GE and Coca-Cola -- put together.
And, they calculate that the marginal effective tax rate on investment by a U.S. firm in a low-tax country is, remarkably, a negative 24 percent.
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Consequently, they calculate such pricing and usage would pressure ADAP programs.
The big news out of the ranking is changes by U.S. News on how they calculate employment rates after years of schools massaging these numbers.
The main difference is caused by the fact that, although they use much of the same data, they calculate the inflation rate using different formulae.
Because of this, the IRS strives to provide a comprehensive definition of NII to guide taxpayers as they calculate their 3.8% Medicare Surtax amounts this taxable year.
They calculate that, whereas the 1998 budget provided for almost 2.3m people to be employed in the civil service and the armed forces, the true total was over 2.68m.
On the basis of the national sample surveys (NSS), they calculate that India's sex ratio at birth swung from 924 females per 1, 000 males in 2004-05 to 977 in 2011, a stunning turnaround in favour of girls.
Quite a lot, if they calculate wisely.
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And because drinking too much is associated with disruption, disease, and death, they calculate that doubling the tax on alcohol will produce 35 percent fewer traffic crash deaths, 11 percent fewer deaths from sexually transmitted diseases, and 6 percent fewer deaths from violence.
Insurers say the increases are necessary to offset the risk they take in insuring millions of homeowners in harm's way, but their increasingly angry customers question how they calculate rates and whether state officials in charge of balancing public and corporate interest are being too favorable toward the companies.
They calculate that if a rightist government is elected this summer, it will have an awful lot of unpopular work to do: both to get public finances in shape (not least under pressure from Brussels) and to cope with an ageing population it will have to take on the public-sector unions, slim the civil service and reform pensions, tax, education and health care.
Short term, they will consider whether they will have to dip into their reserves and longer term, they will calculate whether they have enough generation and transmission.
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Pipeline partnerships are a particular problem because they must calculate, and investors must report, gains and losses in each state they traverse.
They now calculate average concurrent viewers, peak concurrent viewers and total broadcast time for every stream.
The contracts may prove to be loss-leaders in the early years, but they may calculate it is worth the hit just to be players in the game.
When you show them murders in drug cultivating areas are more than double the national rate, they quickly calculate their personal misery index, including alcoholism, prostitution and spousal abuse.
They then calculate food-price indices that are skewed towards calorie-dense foods (so a change in the price of butter has more impact than a change in the price of vegetables).
If lenders plugged these numbers into the same model that they used in 2007, they would calculate that Greece could only avoid default if it could devote 17.2% of GDP to debt service.
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