Sentence examples for a rough proxy from inspiring English sources

Demographics offered a rough proxy for expected behavior.

Those imbalances are a rough proxy for capital flight.

It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

Current accounts are a rough proxy for the economic health of eurozone states.

Nationally, more than half of public school students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, a rough proxy for poverty.

The data measures numbers of prescriptions, not pills, but is a rough proxy for Americans' use of opioids.

Students in schools with higher free- and reduced-lunch rates, a rough proxy for poverty, also performed worse than the average.

But measures of income inequality are misleading because an individual's income is, at best, a rough proxy for his or her real economic wellbeing.

Between 2008 and 2014 nominal GDP, a rough proxy for an economy's capacity to repay debts, fell by 22%, much more than any other European invalid.

It works well as a rough proxy for "coolness" - albeit one in which your correspondent presumably counts as cool.And the trend is clear.

And we are clearly not fixing the problem of prisoner under-education if the statistics on prisoner literacy – a rough proxy for high school education – are any indication.