This picture, when compared to earlier censuses, helps to measure trends and new developments in the agricultural sector of our nation's economy.

One of the National Health Board's main purposes with these reports is to measure changes and trends over time.

Those are a few nuggets from a systematic attempt by the Labor Department to measure trends in how Americans spend their time on and off the job.

But they also say that crime statistics cannot accurately measure short-term trends.

In the 1970's, Dr. Klein, who had a private psychiatric practice, began developing a scale to measure trends in an individual's sexual orientation.

Traditional network management systems focus on measuring and monitoring the technical metrics and trends of IT applications and infrastructure.

Still, the poll measures national trends, and its findings are not directly transferrable to the upcoming contests in those three states.

If you doubt it, you might prefer the traditional economists' method of measuring long-term trends from equivalent places in the business cycle.

In recent years, scholars have been gathering data in an attempt to measure global trends in conflict and violence.

The maximum is 100%, but what is stopping us from applying more gradations, which would provide us with another way of measuring upward or downward trends?