Sentence examples for communities index from inspiring English sources

"It's almost like you are looking at two different countries," said Steve Glickman, executive director of the Economic Innovation Group, which created a new tool called the Distressed Communities Index.

To come up with the rankings in the Distressed Communities Index, analysts focused on seven factors: the prevalence of adults with a high school degree, home vacancy rates, adults in the work force, the percentage of people living below the poverty line, median income as a percentage of the state average, change in employment and change in the number of businesses.

Earlier this year the EIG launched the Distressed Communities Index (DCI), which broke down economic prosperity and distress by using data from more than 25,000 zip codes and over 99% of the population.

Cleveland, which received the second highest tally on the recent Distressed Communities Index, needs this convention to have lasting results.

WHO's Urban HEART, [ 31] the Michigan Critical Health Indicators, [ 32] and San Francisco's Healthy Development Measurement Tool (now renamed the Sustainable Communities Index) [ 33] were all constructed, in part, to permit local areas to assemble and assess their own data.

But in 2010, one town within the constituency, Jaywick, was named the most deprived place in England, in the Department for Communities' indices of deprivation.

In rural Indian communities indices of reproductive health are typically very poor: maternal mortality rate is about 230 per 100,000 live births and 61.2% of the women suffer from at least one gynecologic pathology [ 11].

Perkins, et al. (1990) also creates a sense of community index, which measures membership, influence, integration, and shared emotional connection.

We propose and test a new Phytoplankton Community Index (PhyCoI) for monitoring the ecological status of lakes and reservoirs.

These metrics were used to develop a Benthic Community Index to assess the biological integrity of wadeable streams in the ecoregion.

The index that was found to be the best for assessing the ecological status of the watercourses, as indicated by correlation tests, was named "Odonata Community Index – Corsica" (OCIC), and was finally confronted with the 5 biological indices recommended by the WFD and currently used in Corsica.