Using a broader measure of constraints on the executive — an index that includes several of the institutional checks and balances noted above — they find that after four years of populist rule, these checks on the executive are 17percentt lower than under a regular democracy, while the rule of law is 22 lower.
Using a broader measure of poverty, the decline in poverty has been comparable to the big gains of the 1960s and was more than twice as great as during the 1980s.Yet the fact remains: poor parents have seen less improvement in incomes than in their chance of a job.
Using a broad measure of economic and personal well-being, only 7% of British Muslims called themselves "thriving" compared with 56% of the British public.
Using a broad measure of poverty that includes the value of tax credits and non-cash assistance, the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think-tank, calculates that the average amount by which poor families fell below the poverty line was $245 higher in 1998 than in 1995.
Future studies examining the quality of epilepsy care using a broad measure such as the QUIET indicators may benefit from an approach that utilizes not only medical chart abstraction, but a targeted survey that provides a second assessment of patient reported receipt of care which allows one to triangulate data to assess the care received by patients.
A separate survey by DIEESE, a union-backed research group, uses a broader measure (of adults not fully employed).
On the high end, the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, which uses a broader measure of income that includes capital gains, yielded a cutoff of $690,000 in 2007, the most recent year of data available.
Our study also indicated the need to use a broader measure of CSR to obtain a clearer relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance.
And surely, given the huge volumes carbon dioxide emitted by industrial agriculture and the vast amounts of water it uses, we should use a broader measure when deciding where to buy food from, looking not at distance traveled but at the environmental sustainability of the farming practices and processing techniques used to produce it.
However, instead of restricting the analyses to coronary heart disease as in the study by Lynch et al., we wanted to use a broader measure of CVD, including both CE and stroke.
5 This could be because our trial population was much less selected and we used a broader measure (mean temperatures for three days) rather than time to fever resolution.
