Editing The Economist (section)

=== Indexes ===
Historically, the publication has also maintained a section of [[economic statistics]], such as employment figures, economic growth, and interest rates. These statistical publications have been found to be seen as authoritative and decisive in British society.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WVLKKSOcGYC&pg=PA88 |title=Great expectations—the social sciences in Great Britain |publisher=Commission on the Social Sciences |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7658-0849-3 |page=88}}</ref> ''The Economist'' also publishes a variety of rankings seeking to position [[business school]]s and [[Undergraduate education|undergraduate universities]] among each other, respectively. In 2015, they published their first ranking of U.S. universities, focusing on comparable economic advantages. Their data for the rankings is sourced from the [[United States Department of Education|U.S. Department of Education]] and is calculated as a function of median earnings through [[regression analysis]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 October 2015 |title=The Economist "The value of university: Our first-ever college rankings" |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-university |url-status=live |access-date=29 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311051641/https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/10/value-university |archive-date=11 March 2018}}</ref> Among others, the most well-known [[Index (economics)|data indexes]] the weekly publishes are:

* The [[Big Mac Index]]: a measure of the [[Purchasing power parity|purchasing power]] of currencies, first published in 1986, using the price of the hamburger in different countries.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZnk5C2r8qEC&pg=PA396 |title=International Economics |publisher=Pearson Education |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-321-55398-0 |page=396}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=6–12 September 1986 |title=On the Hamburger Standard |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref> This is published twice a year since 2006, annually prior to that.<ref>{{ cite web| title= The Economist GitHub | website= [[GitHub]]| url= https://github.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data}}</ref>
*[[Democracy Index]]: a measure of the state of democracy in the world, produced by the paper's [[Economist Intelligence Unit]] (EIU)
* The [[Glass Ceiling Index]]: a measure of [[Occupational sexism|female equality in the workplace]].
* The Most Dangerous Cities Index: a measure of major cities [[List of countries by intentional homicide rate|by rates of homicide]].
*Commodity-Price Index: a measure of [[Commodity|commodities]], such as [[gold]] and [[Brent Crude|brent oil]], as well as agricultural items