How do the Vital Signs differ from other indicators?
The Vital Signs are specific outcome indicators developed through a community driven process and vetted through the Alliance Vital Signs Steering Committee as the best measures of the city’s progress, neighborhood by neighborhood. Not every indicator is an outcome indicator, and not every outcome indicator is important enough to be one of the Vital Signs. For more information on the development process, go the Indicators section of the website. The Vital Signs do not evaluate programs, rather they are a common threshold to measure changing conditions. Outcome indicators measure progress toward a goal or result that mark changes in conditions over time. Program / process /performance indicators measure whether a specific program worked in the short term. For more information, go to the Definitions .
