crude indicator

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We should beware of assuming that the figures represent a continuous trend from 1922 to 1936, but as a crudeindicator, they suffice.
Change in hospital mortality was used as a crudeindicator of change in comorbidity.
The figures, although undifferentiated by offence, region or town\\countryside divide, provide a crudeindicator of enclosure's growing importance within colonial society during the period.
It is a measure of ' caseness ' and severity, and so can be used as a crudeindicator of change.
A crudeindicator of both demand and supply is the early diffusion of voluntar y sickness and health insurance.
National-level statistics on agricultural population per hectare of arable land are used as a crude indicator of the supply conditions in agricultural labor markets for a selected sample of countries.
As this is a rather crudeindicator of self-employment, the precise extent of self-employment is not clear but some impression of its changing importance over time can be obtained.
It is important that colleges should not be punished by a crudeindicator of business engagement.
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