Affordability is a relative measure, especially in a country with a booming real estate market.
On the whole, though the country fared relatively well, this is only a relative measure.
There is a debate on whether an absolute or relative measure is more useful.
Every measure is simply a relative measure to the level of that attribute in, say, the general population or another specific individual.
Get happy over relative measures if you must.
It should be clear that the hazard ratio is a relative measure of effect and tells us nothing about absolute risk.
A relative measure of poverty is based on a country's income distribution rather than an absolute amount of money.
But for relative measures of hitting, the wall itself bears no number.
Some measurements combine certain aspects of absolute and relative measures.
Overproduction is a relative measure, referring to the excess of production over consumption.