A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.

A U. S. Government report published in 2005, estimates that 600, 000 to 800, 000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year.

A US Government report published in 2003, estimates that 800, 000-900, 000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year.

" The CIIR report refers to estimates made by the NGO Americas Watch which count the number of non-battle related deaths and disappearances for which the government was responsible up to the year 1986 as " close to 300 ".

promote and report severely conservative ( e. g. pessimistic ) estimates of future earnings.

" However, the OSCE report, released in March 2011, estimates the population of territories controlled by ethnic Armenians " adjacent to the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh " to be 14, 000, and states " there has been no significant growth in the population since 2005.

While subsequently released files show that ' Macmillan's cuts were few and covered up few technical details ', and that even the full report at the time found no danger to public health, later official estimates acknowledged the release of polonium-210 may have led directly to 25 to 50 deaths, and anti-nuclear groups linked it to 1, 000 fatal cancers.

Also, the sources like Westermann's report contain the exact data about the number of deported persons, but only estimates of the numbers of those who died in transit, the fact which also hints that they were included in the final sum, because it would be hard for the authorities in Bełżec to learn the exact number of those murdered, excluding the dead in transport.

One report estimates that every year between 5, 000 and 7, 000 Nepalese girls are trafficked into the red light districts in Indian cities, and that many of the girls may only be 9 or 10 years old.

The JMP publishes a report of updated estimates every two years on the use of various types of drinking-water sources and sanitation facilities at the national, regional and global levels.

Current estimates of global eustatic rise from tide gauge records and satellite altimetry is about + 3 mm / a ( see 2007 IPCC report ).

* Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute that presents research results that quantify the impacts of climate change, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being.

In particular, the analysts want to report accurate systematic error estimates for all of their measurements ; this is difficult or impossible if one of the errors is observer bias.

CRS specialists may assist the committee ’ s staff in preparing some sections of this report, although cost estimates are developed by the Congressional Budget Office.

It estimated IQs for all US presidents, and validated the headline of the hoax, which stated Bush's was the lowest of any president in the last 50 years, though it estimates his IQ considerably higher ( by more than two standard deviations ) than the 91 suggested in the hoax report.

" Deficiencies included the lack of a quality review of the data collected ; reliance on estimates, forecasting, and unverified third party reporting ; and the potential inclusion of exported items ," the report concluded.

" The report also found that shipment data for Energy Star products were not being adequately reviewed and in some cases, were based on estimates instead of actual shipping totals.

The American College of Sports Medicine estimates that 85 % of sports-related concussions go undiagnosed because athletes fail to report or deny symptoms and because subtle changes in brain function may not be obvious on a single examination.

The report, endorsed by Freeport, also estimates that during the life of the mine 3. 2 billion tons of waste rock-a great part of which generates acid-will be dumped into the local river system.

report that they did indeed describe the contrast between the effect size estimates as " nonsignificant, z = 1. 42, p >. 10, two-tailed ".

However, they continue, " What did report as significantly different was the contrast between male and female effect size estimates for the all-types-of-consent groups, where r < sub > u </ sub > s =. 04 and. 11, respectively.

The report stated that these are likely to be conservative estimates.

Government estimates report the HIV rate among operators of these logging vehicles to be about 18 % and that of the sex workers to be as high as 30 %.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

The 2004 report claimed that the channel outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.

The hearings were concluded in November 2004, and the report was published 15 June 2010.

In 2004 a new report published in the Lancet medical journal showed that vCJD can be transmitted by blood transfusions.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

Numerous scientific studies — such as a 2004 report published in Nature, and papers authored by the 10, 000 scientists who contribute to the IUCN's annual Red List of threatened species — have since reinforced this conviction.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

On October 19, 2004, following the UN Secretary General's report, the UN Security Council voted unanimously ( meaning that it received the backing of Algeria, the only Arab member of the Security Council ) to put out a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with Resolution 1559.

) A 2004 World Bank report notes a " range of informal barriers to both imports and exports in Moldova, such as cumbersome and restrictive trade procedures, corruption, burdensome and inappropriate regulations and high transport costs.

Monaco did not appear in the list of these territories until 2004, when OECD became indignant regarding the Monegasque situation and denounced it in its last report, as well as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, underlining its lack of co-operation as regards to financial information disclosure and availability.

The report notes that the regime has tightened its control over assistance work since former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was purged in October 2004.

" A general lack of education and experience about business is a significant challenge to prospective entrepreneurs ," was the report on Native American entrepreneurship by the Northwest Area Foundation in 2004.

By August 2004, a report by the Australian Center for Independent Studies suggested that Nauru might consider relinquishing its independent status in favor of becoming an Australian territory.

The conduct of U. S. forces was criticised in a report entitled Enduring Freedom-Abuses by U. S. Forces in Afghanistan by U. S .- based human rights group, Human Rights Watch in 2004.

According to the OECD ( www. oecd. org ) report, in 2004 Poles were one of the hardest working nations in Europe.

As of 2004, Picasso remains the top ranked artist ( based on sales of his works at auctions ) according to the Art Market Trends report.

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.

A February 2005 report from the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, " FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches human rights such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups.

On July 22, 2004, the report was released.

In 1996, the Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor ( Tunisia, 1993 – 2004 ), visited India in order to compose a report on religious discrimination.

In November 2004, a United Nations Secretary General report described terrorism as any act " intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act ".

* IMF report ( 2004 ) on emerging market currency crises

Despite the work of the 1400 strong Iraq Survey Group in post-war Iraq, no evidence of actual WMD capability has so far been uncovered ; according to its final report in September 2004.

The British inquiry, headed by Lord Butler of Brockwell, in its report in July 2004, while critical of the British intelligence community, did not recommend that anyone should resign.