In this paper we develop a method for calculating expected profit as a more robust spatial measure of economic rent accruing from agricultural land and indicator of opportunity cost for use in landscape and planning for natural resource management.
Somewhat surprisingly, income was not seen as the strongest indicator of opportunity.
Children with TB who potentially could have been identified with LTBI through screening on entry and offered preventive treatment, were also included as an indicator of opportunity for prevention, although at the time of the registration of the cases, the national guideline only recommended this screening in non-BCG vaccinated children.
The Gender Empowerment Measure is an indicator of opportunities for women.
Having private cancer insurance was an indicator of the opportunity to obtain vaccinations or learn guidelines from a health care provider.
Prevalence of other crimes that can thrive on the same opportunities for a particular crime at stations is assumed to be an indicator of better opportunities for that crime.
The U.S. does perform well in terms of "Opportunity" indicators, but not conspicuously better than many northern European countries.
Nonetheless, OECD (2010) considers these preferences as valid and reliable indicators of practices (when opportunities occur).
Notice that one might be troubled, for example, if it is found that men have better life prospects on the average than women, because that would be an indicator that perhaps equality of opportunity and fair equality of opportunity are not satisfied.
The report also warns companies of increasing risks if major businesses fail to become more transparent in their performance: "While companies can face barriers in setting up systems to measure and publicly disclose their performance on the seven first-generation indicators, the opportunity cost of opaqueness is rising".
