Examples of Datum Line in a sentence
The first poverty line constructed in South Africa was the Poverty Datum Line which was developed in the 1940’s (Magasela, 2005).
This line was made up of two parts – the Primary Poverty Datum Line which consisted solely of the cost of food, clothing, cleansing materials and fuel and light, and the Secondary Poverty Datum Line which in addition made provision for the cost of accommodation, transport for the breadwinner, and taxation (Ibid).
Responsibility for the failure to remunerate workers with Poverty Datum Line (PDL) linked salaries and improve their working conditions lies squarely and fully on the shoulders of the inclusive government.
Social poverty included measuring the poverty of families in relation to Poverty Datum Line (PDL), incidents of crime, teenage pregnancy, unemployment levels and levels of education.
The Poverty Datum Line determined for South Africa in 2002 was R354 per month per adult.
The upper surface of the side deck and the carlines may be rounded inboard of 335mm from Datum Line “C” measured athwartships.
At the edge of the decks from fore transom to aft transom shall extend for a minimum of 8mm and a maximum of 50mm from Datum Line “C” measured perpendicular to Datum Plane “E” at the points on Datum Line “C” from which the measurements are taken; save that within 25mm of the fore and aft transoms they may be tapered or rounded down to 0mm.
According to the Botswana Core Welfare Indicators Survey of 2009/2010, the proportion of individuals who were living below Botswana’s Poverty Datum Line (PDL) has decreased steadily from 47% (1992/1993) to 30.6% (2002/2003) to 19.3% (2009/2010)3.
In any athwartships section, the inboard edge of the flat upper surface of a side deck (including the carline) shall be above and not more than 25mm above the straight line from Datum Line “C” on one side of the boat to Datum Line “C” on the opposite side of the boat at that section.
At the aft transom shall extend for a minimum of 14mm and a maximum of 30 mm from Datum Line “C” measured perpendicular to Datum Plane “E” at the points on Datum Line “C” from which the measurements are taken; save that 100mm on either side of the centreline they may be cut away to 0mm.