This committee arrives at its decisions on when recessions begin and end by looking at wide range of indicators, not just GDP.
Nitesh Patel, an economist for the Bank of Scotland, explained that Shetland had performed consistently well in the survey in recent years, across a range of indicators.
But since the 1980s they have diverged on a range of indicators, from the age at which women have children to the age at which residents die.
But recent days have seen a range of indicators published that give us some help in locating where the Scottish economy is now positioned in recovering from recession.
The Digest, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, presents a wide range of indicators on the extent to which girls and boys are enrolling and completing secondary education.
It used a broad range of economic indicators, such as employment and production, to make this judgement.
And it will also monitor a wide range of other indicators to assess the future path of inflation.
When researchers looked in more detail and included a wider range of possible indicators of an epilepsy diagnosis the incidence dropped by 47%.
It presents an overview of global trends in science and technology, based on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
Likewise, central bankers need to monitor a large range of economic and financial indicators if they want to be sure of achieving their ultimate goal of low inflation.
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The WEF bases its report on 71 indicators, which range from the level of bureaucracy in a particular country to the price that its residents pay for cellphone service.
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Entitled Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Grade Repetition and Early School Leaving, the Digest presents a wide range of UIS data and indicators to better identify the millions of children that are falling through the cracks in education systems and leaving school, often without being able to read or write.
Doctors can see which indicators are out of normal range (in red), and zoom in and out of the data.
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