Metrics provide a method to visualize progress towards achieving the objective. Many kinds of metrics exist, such as revenue, customer satisfaction, and unemployment rate. However, metrics that are not used in making decisions do not add so much value to the activities measured. For example, if the customer satisfaction metric is not used in meetings to secure resources against other
Graph 1: Relative poverty rate and child poverty rate, 1985-2012; 相対的貧困率と子供の貧困率、1985-2012 (Comprehensive survey of Living Conditions 2013, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare;平成25年国民生活基礎調査の概要 厚生労働省) Graph 2: Household income mean and mean real, 1985-2012; 世帯可処分所得中央値と世帯可処分所得中央値実質、1985-2012 (Comprehensive survey of Living Conditions 2013, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare;平成25年国民生活基礎調査の概要 厚生労働省) Graph 3: Economic growth rate=[(GDP(yr)-GDP(yr-1)]/GDP(yr-1)x100, real GDP； 経済成長率＝（当年GDP-前年GDP)/前年GDPx100、実質GDP (Data based on SNA (System of National