Month to Month Change
In this sixteenth survey of the web, The WAWG Index group average was up by 0.8 percent from January 2007. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 8 were down, 5 were up, and 1 was unchanged. The cumulative change for the index is up 225 percent since October 2005. The largest decrease for January, at 9%, was for “national security.†The largest increase was for “control of mass media†at 23%.
Twelve Month Moving Average
Through February, the 12 month group moving average for all fourteen categories was at 14.0 percent. It was 19.6 percent last month. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 4 have twelve month averages that were down while 10 are up – a change of one from last month. “Separation of church and state” went negative, from +0.3 to -0.2 percent.