At present, about 5 percent of the country is designated as protected.

Eight percent of 3,500 housing authorities nationwide are designated as troubled.

Zoning requires that at least 10 percent of the housing be designated for the elderly.

Another 10 percent had been designated as low performers.

About 45 percent of the planned land has been designated as open areas, where building is also forbidden.

Only 11 percent of the world's forests are designated for conservation.

In neighboring Suffolk, 79 percent of the county property tax is designated for the police.

About 9 percent of the city's 1,100 public schools are now officially designated as failing, more than at any time in the last decade.

Roughly four percent of the children are designated as gifted.

The basic problem, advocates say, is that just 18, or 13 percent, of the 134 stations are designated.