What is IIP? The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) conveys the status of production in the industrial sector of an economy in a given period of time‚ in comparison with a fixed reference point in the past. The IIP numbers‚ released every month in India‚ for instance‚ use 1993-94 as the base year for comparison. The IIP figures are generally seen as an important but short-term indicator of whether industrial activity in a country has risen or dipped‚ till more detailed studies or surveys are
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Consumer Price Index The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of change in prices over a period of time. The CPI is made up of a fixed basket of goods that is used to determine one’s CPI. The basket of goods consists of services and goods like food‚ education‚ transportation‚ apparel‚ housing‚ and beverages. Some examples of these goods are cereal‚ milk‚ cheese‚ prescription drugs‚ jewelry and new vehicles (“Consumer Price Index” 2010). The basket of goods are reviewed every ten years‚ which
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were at first listed with a total paid-up capital of 37 million rupees. The first index introduced in KSE was based on fifty companies and was called KSE 50 index. Trading used to be carried out on open out-cry system. With the enlargement in number of scheduled companies and trading activities‚ a dire need for a true representative index and computerization of trading activities was felt. As a result KSE 100 Index was introduced on November 1‚ 1991. Computerized trading system called Karachi Automated
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A Summary of the Index of Dissimilarity The index of dissimilarity is a measurement of segregation between two racial groups in a neighborhood compared to the city as a whole. Specifically‚ this measurement determines the evenness‚ or the consistency of a complete‚ integrated spread of two racial groups across a specified area in a city. The formula for calculating the index of dissimilarity is as follows: index of dissimilarity= 1/2 ∑_(i=1)^N▒|x_i/X- y_i/Y| Here‚ “x_i” represents the number of
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THE FACE AS AN INDEX OF CHARACTER A man’s face‚ if we can read it alright‚ generally is an index to his character. We can tell what sort of man he is by the expression of his countenance‚ as we can tell the species of a shell-fish by its shell; for‚ as a shell-fish secrets is shell‚ so the soul secrets its physical face. It is we ourselves who make our faces. Character is simply the sum total of confirmed habits; and as habit is formed‚ it slowly writes its characteristics marks
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PEDIATRIC MINI REVIEW Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applications A Must1‚2 and SE Anderson2 1 2 Department of Public Health and Family Medicine‚ Tufts University School of Medicine‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA and The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy‚ Tufts University‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30‚ 590–594. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803300 Keywords: review; body mass index; pediatrics; BMI z-score; overweight
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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sustainable manner. Human development therefore focuses on people and the satisfaction of their basic needs. Human Development Index The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is regularly publishing their global Human Development Reports (HDRs) since 1990 to measure the country’s in human development through Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in terms of three basic aspects of human development: longevity‚ knowledge
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New Series of Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers on base 2001=100 1. OBJECTIVE Labour Bureau‚ since its inception‚ has‚ inter-alia‚ been entrusted with the responsibility of compilation and maintenance of the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW). The CPI-IW purports to measure the temporal change in the retail prices of fixed basket of goods and services being consumed by the target group i.e. an average working class family and thus‚ is an important
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What is HDI? HDI (Human Development index) is a way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts‚ expressed as a value between 0 and 1. It is
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