Some academics are highly sceptical about the usefulness of the indicators used to compile rankings: Hazelkorn argues that a high proportion of international students could just as easily decrease a university's quality as increase it.
An outbreak of disease could push mortality rates – one of three indicators used to define a famine – much higher.
THE ratio, of course, is one of many indicators used to predict the course of markets or individual stocks based on historical trading patterns.
The regulator said that the data used for another four of the indicators used to measure performance had been updated by NHS England and that seven practices would move into a higher priority band as a result.
One of the indicators used to portray Colombia as a success story for its achievements in development and gender equality has been the rise in the use of modern contraception, of which the leading method is sterilisation.
In fact, some of the indicators used to measure a country's competitiveness, such as education or infrastructure, suggest that higher taxes might have a beneficial effect.
So you might expect senior managers there to be full-hearted supporters of the target regime and the indicators used to monitor performance.
The indicators used to monitor quality are often too broad-brush to pick up the specific impact of the cost-saving measures.
The measures also call for improved indicators used to evaluate the environmental impact of new projects and deny administrative approvals, financing, land and other support to projects that fail to meet higher environmental standards.
But in this Report we modify the indicators used to measure progress in education and income, and we change the way they are aggregated.The first change was in the education index.
You can click here for a look at the various indicators used to put together these lists.
