An indicator is a tool that provides information about the overall health of the economy or financial markets. Qualitative indicators are non-numerical factors that determine progress toward a goal based on opinions and feelings rather than facts or numbers. An indicator gives a sense of the direction of information, such as whether a group's hope is increasing or decreasing over time, and are used to determine the speed and progress of a process. Qualitative information includes things that can't be measured numerically.

1. Indicators
• According to English & business Dictionaries.
• Indicator is a tool which gives us information.
• Data which provide information about or
predict the overall health of the economy or
the financial markets.
• Examples are.
• Inflation, interest rates, employment, volume,
and insider trading.
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad

2. Indicators
• Qualitative indicators are non-numerical factors
for determining level of progress towards a
specific goal. Qualitative data is based on
opinions, feelings or viewpoints rather than
hard facts or numbers.
• These factors are used to measure things that
have no numerical constant, like a group’s sense
of hope for the future.
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad

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• An indicator is a segment of information that
gives a sense of the direction to the
information — such as whether the feeling of
hope is greater or less than in the same time
in the previous year.
• Indicators are used to determine how quickly
a process is happening or how close a process
is to completion.
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad

4. • The term ‘qualitative indicators’ is made up of
two very important research concepts.
Qualitative and quantitative information make
up the two types of discoverable information.
• Quantitative is generally the easiest to
understand and manipulate since it is based
on numbers and hard facts.
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad

5. • When information can’t be measured or
reproduced, then it is typically qualitative.
• Knowing that a jar contains 3,745 jellybeans is
quantitative but comparing the taste of the
jellybeans to chocolate cake is qualitative.
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad

6. Thanks to all
• Knowledge is Power, Literally!
Keep up with the latest information in your
field.
Mukhtiar Ahmed
• Roll no. 014
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Mukhtiar Ahmed Arain Shaheed Benazir
Bhutto University S.B.Abad