TY - BOOK AU - Adel Abdallah Abdellatif Elsherif AU - Ghazal Abdelaziz Amer , AU - Sayed Mesheal Elsayed , TI - Towards a construction of coincident and leading indicators of economic activity in Egypt / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Adel Abdallah Abdellatif Elsherif , KW - Coincident indicators KW - Composite indicators KW - Leading indicators N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Institute of Statistical Studies and Research - Department of Statistics and Econometrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Time series of economic activity in developing countries in particular real GDP are erported with important lags . Therefore it is useful to construct indicators that coincide or lead the actual direction and level of economic activity . A general methodology to construct these indicators is proposed and adapted for Egypt. Four coincident indicators could be constructed but not reliable leading indicator could be found UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -