Meanwhile, of all the key output measures – services, production and construction – the services sector is the only one to have surpassed pre-crisis levels.
Nowadays even high-street stores do some sort of made-to-measure service, and bespoke tailoring in general has many entry levels.
As a result of the audit, the transit agency decided to come up with a new way of measuring service and to use semi-independent train monitors who would not feel pressure to inflate the numbers.
Here Measured Service and Broad Network Access are slightly dominant in the solution, but perhaps insignificantly.
"What we have introduced last month is a new benchmarking product, using a multi-tenant SaaS platform to easily measure service and benchmark against industry peers," he explained.
Measured Service and Geographic Distribution, shown very close together in 2-d, are in fact very distant when considering more relevant dimensions.
Broad Network Access is driven largely by cases 17, 21 and 23, Resource Pooling by cases 27, 4 and 33, Measured Service and Rapid Elasticity jointly by a larger set of cases, in decreasing significance, 16, 2, 30, 1, 31, 25, 6 and 32.
Other associations are evident, e.g. orthogonal to these are Measured Service and Geographic Distribution driven by case 16, and opposed to this is Homogeneity driven strongly by case 13 Fig. 2 Scree plot showing eigenvalues of the decomposition of the full 13-characteristic dataset.
Secondary outcome measures include; Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test AUDITT) score, quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, health-related quality of life measures, service utilisation, and patient experience.
The composite index, which measures both services and manufacturing, fell from 52.4 in June to 47.7 - an 87-month low.
