Consumer Price Index The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of change in prices over a period of time. The CPI is made up of a fixed basket of goods that is used to determine one’s CPI. The basket of goods consists of services and goods like food‚ education‚ transportation‚ apparel‚ housing‚ and beverages. Some examples of these goods are cereal‚ milk‚ cheese‚ prescription drugs‚ jewelry and new vehicles (“Consumer Price Index” 2010). The basket of goods are reviewed every ten years‚ which
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A Summary of the Index of Dissimilarity The index of dissimilarity is a measurement of segregation between two racial groups in a neighborhood compared to the city as a whole. Specifically‚ this measurement determines the evenness‚ or the consistency of a complete‚ integrated spread of two racial groups across a specified area in a city. The formula for calculating the index of dissimilarity is as follows: index of dissimilarity= 1/2 ∑_(i=1)^N▒|x_i/X- y_i/Y| Here‚ “x_i” represents the number of
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THE FACE AS AN INDEX OF CHARACTER A man’s face‚ if we can read it alright‚ generally is an index to his character. We can tell what sort of man he is by the expression of his countenance‚ as we can tell the species of a shell-fish by its shell; for‚ as a shell-fish secrets is shell‚ so the soul secrets its physical face. It is we ourselves who make our faces. Character is simply the sum total of confirmed habits; and as habit is formed‚ it slowly writes its characteristics marks
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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sustainable manner. Human development therefore focuses on people and the satisfaction of their basic needs. Human Development Index The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is regularly publishing their global Human Development Reports (HDRs) since 1990 to measure the country’s in human development through Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in terms of three basic aspects of human development: longevity‚ knowledge
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What is HDI? The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development"‚ taken as a synonym of the older terms "standard of living" and/or "quality of life"‚ and distinguishing "very high human development"‚ "high human development"‚ "medium human development"‚ and "low human development" countries. HDI was devised and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq‚ followed by Indian economist Amartya Sen in 1990. The HDI is a comparative measure
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PEDIATRIC MINI REVIEW Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applications A Must1‚2 and SE Anderson2 1 2 Department of Public Health and Family Medicine‚ Tufts University School of Medicine‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA and The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy‚ Tufts University‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30‚ 590–594. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803300 Keywords: review; body mass index; pediatrics; BMI z-score; overweight
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dimensions that can be used to assess each countries culture; power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ long-term orientation‚ individualism‚ and masculinity index. In our presentation‚ we chose a topic about the masculinity index. Therefore‚ an in depth analysis for this dimension will follow in the next part. IV. Masculinity Index: "Masculinity index refers
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Winfield | | | Body mass index or (BMI) is a key index that relates a person’s body weight to their height. The body mass index is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by their height in meters squared. The National Institute of Health uses the body mass index to define normal weight‚ overweight and obesity. Overweight is considered is a person having a body mass index of 27.3% or more for women and 27.8 % or more for men. Obesity using the BMI index is defined as a BMI of 30 and above
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chóng kịp thời. Phần 2: CHỈ SỐ LPI: 1. Tổng quan về LPI: Logistics quan trọng đối sự phát triển của nền kinh tế toàn thế giới‚ và để biết năng lực Logistics của mỗi quốc gia trên thế giới người ta sử dụng chỉ tiêu LPI tức là Logistics performance index. Đây là chỉ số do ngân hàng World Bank đưa ra dùng để xếp hạng và công bố tại tại Washington‚ Hoa Kỳ. Vào năm 2007‚ lần đầu tiên Ngân hàng thế giới (The World Bank) công bố báo cáo về chỉ số LPI của các quốc gia trên thế giới. Báo cáo mang tên “Kết
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