Half of the 24 industry groups studied have at least three metric categories with strong correlations.

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Compared with November 2008, the first three categories remained stable.

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Mr Ford also confirmed that Northern Ireland's high security prison at Maghaberry, near Lisburn, will be reconfigured to become three separate facilities dealing with different categories of offenders.

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