AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 2: The national and international economy
4.2.1.2 Macroeconomic Indicators
Also AQA AS 7135: 3.2.1.2
Everything you need for questions on macroeconomic indicators, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- The main macroeconomic indicators
- CPI or RPI?
- Two measures of unemployment
- Reading the dashboard
- Calculations
- Classic question: is real GDP the best single indicator of how the economy is doing?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- How is the economy doing?
- Claimant count or Labour Force Survey?
- Which indicator is this?
- The four indicator calculations
- Judging performance
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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