The report measures the number of households that experienced problems at any point in the year.
The unemployment rate measures the number of people who are actively seeking work.
It measures the number of people receiving benefits divided by the number of workers covered by the program.
In all, through habitat protection and other measures, the number of mountain gorillas has increased about 12percentt since 1989.
Euclid measures the number of people who are "cross-shopping" and tells companies whether this is good or bad.
The statistics bureau also calculates something called the quits rate, which measures the number of people who leave their jobs voluntarily as a percentage of total employment.
That figure measures the number of messages sent or received, so a message sent from one person to another would count twice.
Another measure of this group's mood comes from Investors Intelligence, an advisory newsletter, which measures the number of advisers who say they are bullish or bearish.
On the more timely claimant count basis, which measures the number of people claiming out-of-work benefits, unemployment rose by 4,600 in September to 796,200.
By many measures, the number of people traveling set records in 2007, and those figures are holding steady so far this year.
"The latest figures show that as a result of our measures, the number of stalled sites with planning permission is falling," he said.
