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

Economic indicators that lag behind the overall pace of the economy.

Lagging indicators are economic indicators that only show an appreciable increase or decrease some time after a change in the economic cycle has occurred. Probably the best example is the unemployment rate. It normally starts to rise several months after its causes first appeared and declines a considerable time after they have ameliorated.

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Outcome-oriented metrics, such as incident rates, downtime, quality defects, or other measures of past performance.

Market indicators showing the general direction of the economy and confirming or denying the trend rather than predicting its direction as implied by the leading indicators. Also referred to as concurrent indicators.

Economic variables such as the prime interest rate, labor cost per unit of output, inventories to sales ratio and unemployment duration that tend to change after real output changes.

Economic indicators that follow rather than precede a country's overall pace of economic activity.

A lagging indicator is a measure that only changes after the economy has changed. It is of little use in looking ahead. However, they are helpful in confirming a trend. Unemployment is the most popular lagging indicator, because it shows whether companies anticipate things getting better or worse. If companies believe things are bad and getting wor [..]

These are market indicators that often continue an upward trend after the peak of the economy has been signalled by other economic indicators leading indicators. Last-In-First-Out (LIFO)

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