The phrase "as a broad indicator" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that serves as a general sign or measure of a particular situation or trend.
Example: "The increase in sales can be seen as a broad indicator of the company's overall growth in the market."
Alternatives: "as a general sign" or "as a general measure".
Some economists use the ADP survey as a broad indicator for their forecasts of the monthly government jobs numbers.
Still, the S.& P., seen as a broad indicator of the market as a whole, is down more than 9 percent for the year.
And those daily indicators of investor confidence — the markets — have painted a very pessimistic picture; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, seen as a broad indicator of the market, is down 8 percent for the year.
The composition of healthcare spending, whether it is public or private (in terms of GDP or total healthcare spending), is not mentioned as a "broad" indicator for a variety of reasons.
Although there is little published evidence in a Chinese context to support our interpretation, we suggest that the sex ratio can be treated as a broad indicator of community characteristics, and in China it may mean that counties with high resilience are the more developed, and the more economically developed counties have better work opportunities and equity education for females.
To do this, we used the number of ESTs/cDNAs as a broad indicator of expression level.
The increase in the muscle Grp75 level in patients showing occasional immunoreactivity for sarcolemmal MHC-I might be considered further as a broader indicator of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.
We aim at extending previous findings by also exploring effects of CCT on adaptive emotion regulation as well as broader indicators of (dis- functioning such as experiencedis- functioningperienced remisuchn from depression, asd Quality of Lifexperienced
Border Patrol arrests are regarded by researchers as a broad-brush indicator of the flow of illegal immigrants.
Therefore, we stained brain sections with dihydroethidine as a broad-spectrum indicator of oxidative stress.
