Reference collection
Statistical indicators, kept as records
Economic and development indicators held as records rather than as pages describing them — the measure itself, filed so it can be read alongside the others.
What’s on this shelf
Filed as the kind of record it is, so an indicator sits with the rest of its collection rather than inside whichever page happened to quote it.
What one record is
One indicator, filed as a record of what was measured rather than as an article about the measurement.
Every record also keeps the address it was read from, so any answer built on it can be followed back to the original.
What you can do with it
What this collection is kept for.
Reach the measure, not an article about it
Ask what an indicator says and land on the record that holds it, instead of on the commentary written around it.
Read indicators side by side
They are filed together, so more than one measure can be compared without opening a page for each.
Follow it back
Every record keeps the address it was read from, so a figure can be checked where it was published.
What it is not good for
known limits- It is not a live market or price feed. These are published indicators, read as they were published.
- It does not reconcile definitions. Two bodies measuring the same thing may not mean the same thing by it, and nothing here resolves that for you.
Where it’s used
Research
Research reads this collection when a question needs the measure rather than the commentary around it.
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.