Sentence examples for index gauges from inspiring English sources

The housing affordability index gauges the amount of a local, median-priced home (the price at which 50% of homes are more expensive and 50% are less expensive) you can buy if you earn the local median income, given current interest rates.

A percentage value called the "camouflage index" gauges Snake's exposure, on a scale from negative values (highly visible and attracting attention) up to 100% (completely invisible to the enemy).

Also, net rate is explained more consistently by the inflow of nonresidents into an HSA than by the outflow of HSA residents to hospitals outside as indicated by R. The LI, a population-based index, gauges the tendency of patients within an HSA to use local hospitals.

An Ifo index gauging expectations of future business conditions fell to 99.3 from 100.7.

An index gauging how households see economic conditions a year from now — subtracting households that expect economic conditions to worsen from those that see improvements — also improved.

Separately, the government reported that falling food and energy costs kept the Consumer Price Index gauge of inflation flat last month after a 0.3percentt decline in October and that business inventories dropped 1.4percentt in October.

The manufacturers expect business conditions to improve in the three months ahead, with an index gauging the outlook at minus 1. "The result reflected companies' expectations that a weaker yen and policy steps pursued by the government will have a positive impact on the economy," said Tatsushi Shikano, senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo.

Indices gauging the risk of bank defaults leapt amid concern that banks with the greatest exposure to government debt in the euro zone are struggling to obtain funding.

Originally devised for socioeconomic applications, inequality indices gauge the divergence of wealth distributions in human societies from the socioeconomic 'ground state' of perfect equality, i.e. pure communism.

In human and mice, HRVA allows calculation of indices gauging sympathetic and parasympathetic indices.

The ZEW index, which gauges investor confidence, is also on a long slide.