Sometimes subcategories are specific fields of study. For example, mental health is a subcategory of health. Other times, subcategories are simply ways to describe different aspects of the index. For example, the economic index is divided into measures related to business and measures relating to individuals. The subcategories include measures that, when the measure findings are looked at together, give an overall picture of the status of our community for that subcategory .
Measures represent one concept.
This real concept may be measured in a variety of ways. For example, the concept of clean air might be measured by visibility or pollutants in the air. Civic participation might be measured by the percent of people who vote or by the percent of people who volunteer. Our measure pages try to represent the most current information as it is measured in our community.