The phrase "a proxy for demand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something serves as a substitute or indicator for actual demand.
Example: "In this market analysis, we consider customer inquiries as a proxy for demand to gauge interest in the new product."
Alternatives: "an indicator of demand" or "a substitute for demand".
Third, each price listing comes with data on the associated number of clicks, which serves as a proxy for demand and relevance to consumers.
The resulting diet was used, in a second step as a proxy for demand in agricultural commodities, to test the impact of such a scenario on food production and land use in England and Wales and the impacts of this on agricultural landscapes.
One is that overseas is where the business is coming from manufacturing output, a proxy for demand for Emerson goods, is growing at 8% in emerging markets compared with only 3% in the U.S. The other reason is that overseas is where the brainpower is.
Tesla said that it is misleading to look at sales as a proxy for demand for the car.
Because of its simplicity, it is the most commonly used metric for workforce comparison and provides a 'broad brush' approach that may provide a helpful starting point for planners and policy makers, as it takes account of population growth as a proxy for need and demand.
In the past, demand for health care such as attendance at clinic has often been used as a proxy for need [ 32], but this approach generates various problems.
"But, until good schools are demand-driven, you need a proxy for the demand.
The field sample was determined by an analysis by campaign staff and the evaluation office using variable such as demand for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) (which served as a proxy for the demand for campaign support by country offices), PMTCT progress, and distribution qualities (e.g. regional, income, size).
During the industrial revolution, global growth (a proxy for money demand) was regularly 5% per year.
We aim to compute a proxy for the demand for Internet resources and the evolution thereof in classrooms for the next 5 years.
In this paper we have used the RMR of birds as a proxy for energy demand.
