Meanwhile, the value of land sales in 130 Chinese cities fell 13% in 2011 to 1.86 trillion yuan, with residential land sales plunging 24% to 1.24 trillion yuan last year, China Real Estate Index System said in a separate note earlier.
Later this month, the Department of Enterprise will begin publishing a composite economic index which will effectively produce a separate gross domestic product (GDP) figure for Northern Ireland.
One other important caveat to our Grateful Grads Index is that colleges were only required to separate out private gifts from grants and contracts after 2009.
Separate figures showed that Japan's core consumer price index fell 0.4% in April from a year earlier, indicating that the Bank of Japan is still far from its goal of achieving steady 2% price growth to overcome years of deflationary pressures.
With an eye towards improving his original Dow Index, three years later, the great man added two separate indices to help investors identify and anticipate business cycles and associated market patterns.
Separate data released on Tuesday showed that the closely-watched Case Shiller index of home prices in 20 major US cities were 6.8% higher in the three months to December 2012 than they had been a year earlier.