'more appropriate measures' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to more suitable or effective measures that can be taken to address a particular issue. For example, "In order to reduce pollution, more appropriate measures must be taken."
Where survey 2 or 3 measurements were used it was because more appropriate measures were used at these later surveys.
There may be more appropriate measures that are better tailored to their own fund's strategy".
"Hopefully then they could take more appropriate measures to change the way this election is going to be run".
While it is, of course, important to keep drugs out of school, surely counseling and intervention would be more appropriate measures than funneling children into prisons and landing them with criminal records.
More appropriate measures of eyewitness identification accuracy can be obtained from receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) based on confidence ratings.
It is time to develop more appropriate measures and to use the scientific method itself to help in this endeavor.
Given the effects of the workplace, and poor physical health on mood, in future research the measurement of general wellbeing may be a more appropriate measure.
A more appropriate measure might be underemployment.
A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood.
It said: "We reviewed the mechanism for ground rent increases in 2011 and decided that the RPI was a more appropriate measure going forward.
"We believe this guidance is a more appropriate measure for our investors," said Tom Schoewe, Wal-Mart's chief financial officer, "particularly in volatile times when consumer swings are more difficult to predict.
