The researchers found that sitting was associated with a higher death risk after controlling for factors including age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, education, body mass index, as well as living in an urban or city environment.
Since 1985, the overall consumer price index has risen 115% while the college education inflation rate has risen nearly 500%.
The widely quoted consumer price index figure excludes gas, health care and education, all of which have climbed at rates higher than the CPI.
Instead, it is using an inflation index it has developed, called the Higher Education Cost Adjustment, which is designed to take into account the cost of the goods and services purchased by colleges and universities, and which is consistently higher than CPI.
The index takes into account factors such as health and safety, education and housing.
Santa Monica hopes to become the first American city to create a citizen well-being index, using economic vitality, social relationships, health, education and environmental factors to inform city policy decisions.
Assuming a similar spread back to 1985, this index is likely concealing about 20 percentage points of real growth in state higher education spending per FTE student.
In some ways The Grateful Graduates Index is a vindication of the old fashioned idea of getting a good liberal arts education.
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Net Enrollment Ratio in primary education had increased from 58% in 1999 to 76% by 2010 and the Gender parity index from 0.85 to 0.93 over the same period of time.
The Mother's Index uses indicators of maternal health and under-five mortality, as well as women's education, income and political status.
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