For instance, the Conference Board's index of help-wanted advertising, which measures demand for workers, fell from 82 in July 1995 to 58 last month.
If that were not enough, the company also noted that an index of help-wanted advertising across the country "showed only a slight decline" recently.
An index of help-wanted advertising in major American newspapers fell in October to 46, the lowest since 1964, the Conference Board said.
The seasonally adjusted index of help-wanted ads fell 9percentt in the quarter, to its lowest level in 50 years, and is down 26.5percentt compared with a year ago.
An index for areas within a single country could draw on more data and could paint an even more nuanced picture: the Mexican government is already using a variant of the index to help monitor the results of its anti-poverty programmes.
Limitations notwithstanding, we believe that our study has demonstrated the potential application of the LACE index to help identify patients at risk of unplanned readmission in hospitals in Asian countries such as Singapore.
Since the EDAD 2008 furnishes data on time devoted by caregivers and an assessment of the shortfall, Figure 4 may provide some clues for estimating the need -both met and unmet- for help from other persons, and for building an index of such help in terms of work time, e.g., hours/week.
We suggest the development of an equity index to help identify communities that would most benefit from GI investment as critical for equitable GI planning.
Measures were also created for competent management and transparency, such as the presence of a petty cash book and completed child progress reports, and an index of self help.
With the aim of a better water management and governance under water scarcity conditions., this paper also presents a classification of indexes to help decision makers and stakeholders to select the most appropriate indexes, taking as the starting point the objectives of the analysis and the river basin features.
A group of 31 large energy traders pledged today to move forward with a plan to disclose details of every transaction to publishers of price indexes to help restore confidence in the natural gas market.
