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Lagging Indicators

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Lagging indicators
Economic indicators that follow rather than precede the country's overall pace of economic activity. See also: Leading indicators and coincident indicators.

Lagging Indicators
Statistics of economic performance that follow other indicators. Lagging indicators are used to confirm a previous economic trend. For example, an increase in job creation and a fall in the unemployment rate are considered lagging indicators of economic recovery. That is, they occur after other indicators of recovery, such as GDP growth. As such, job creation and lower unemployment show that the GDP growth has been and will likely continue to be sustained. See also: Leading indicator, Coincident indicator.


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The lagging indicators such as employment figures and spending on capital equipment have also started to rise off their cyclical bottoms, and they too will now start to contribute to the recovery.
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