The indicator weighs current income from wages, salaries, businesses and government payments against spending.
As such, Lewis said the index weighs several indicators that contribute to economic mobility in the U.S. -- things like median household income, on-time high school graduation rates, poverty, preschool attendance, access to high-speed internet, crime rates and civic participation.
These indicators were weighed by hydrological expert consultation to assess the vulnerability of water resources in the Guapi-Macacu watershed (Modified from Ferreira [2012]).
This decision was taken by the researchers prior to data collection due to the risk that the many drug and equipment indicators (60 of the 104 indicators) would weigh the study too greatly towards the availability of these items.
Prevalence and incidence rates are the most common indicators to weigh the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and highlight the gravity of the epidemic.
The index, which weighs indicators like manufacturers' new orders and supplier deliveries, has fallen four of the last six months.
To define each index a 3-step procedure was applied: selecting and weighing indicators, assembling the index for each respondent and creating aggregates of respondents based on the index (low/medium/high).
Mr. Romney has called for providing families with information about college "completion and persistence, loan repayment rates, future earnings, and other indicators to intelligently weigh the risks and benefits of the many options available to them".
When all model indicators were combined as equally weighed parts of the DSS model, the overall score for the parks' watersheds was 0.43 (based on the −1 to 1 fuzzy logic scale) (Table 2).
Epididymal fat pads were removed from the carcass and weighed, as an indicator of whole body adiposity [ 52].
