This allows price rises due only to higher quality to be knocked out of the index.
Indeed, the United Nations has developed a measure of quality of life called the Human Development Index ( UN HDI).
Using the recent discussion of the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which relates quality of life with access to energy ( The Middle Class, Energy And Terrorism), we can speculate as to whether Egypt will be better off after the Arab Spring than before it.
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While air pollution has remained a nagging problem since then, Beijingers have learned to live with the situation, and there have been enough blue sky days in the capital city to keep the Air Quality Index (AQI) out of the news until last week that is.
The second most blissful job is senior quality assurance engineer, which earned an index score of 4.23.
The government's Air Quality Index shows "unhealthy" pollution levels in much of Southern California.
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Its report grades cities using, in part, the EPA's color-coded Air Quality Index, as well as its own weighting system that ranks the severity of pollution on a daily basis.
An unofficial reading from the US embassy's air quality index recorded over 500 early in the morning, but changed to 168 as of 13:00 (05:00 GMT).
But note that the Wine Spectator index of auction prices on 150 of the most popularly traded wines of quality vintages is up 16% over last year.
In fact, this index included some lesser credit quality companies whose ratings might be suspect in a drastic decline of the European economy.
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By taking energy and food prices out of the index and applying hedonic adjustments i.e. altering benchmark prices based on perceived quality increases the government is masking its maneuvers, according to Lehmann.
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