The phrase "alternate measure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a different method or approach to achieve a goal or assess a situation.
Example: "If the primary method fails, we should consider an alternate measure to ensure the project's success."
Alternatives: "alternative method" or "substitute measure".
And by that alternate measure, gross domestic income, the annualized pace of growth in the final three months of 2011 actually climbed to 4.4 percent.
An alternate measure of the job market is to look at the number of jobs or employed persons, rather than the unemployment rate.
In North Carolina, poverty has risen by more than 250,000 people by official count, but stayed flat under the alternate measure despite soaring unemployment.
But in an alternate measure, three Republican senators and three Democrats said Congress needed more time to study the law in order to restore "public trust" in antiterror efforts.
On Monday, that may start to change when the Census Bureau releases a long-promised alternate measure meant to do a better job of counting the resources the needy have and the bills they have to pay.
Buried deep inside the government's revised estimate of fourth-quarter growth (revised but unchanged at 3 percent annualized) is an alternate measure of economic activity that is winning increased attention.
One consistent finding in the alternate measures is that poverty falls among children, the target of many government programs.
They included a 2009 version of the Supplemental Poverty Measure, as well as four of eight alternate measures the Census has published, incorporating recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences.
To preview how the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure may change the portrait of poverty, The New York Times consulted multiple alternate measures that researchers have quietly published in recent years.
At a House hearing, the Roundtable's president, John Castellani, cited troubling provisions in a draft reauthorization bill that would allow schools to mask failure in teaching crucial subjects like reading and math by giving them credit for student performance in other subjects or on alternate measures of performance.
Our analysis of data from a sample of nurses contradicts his claims that the quizzes are alternate measures.
