Table 5.

Correlations between the beef female’s profit potential index (BFPP) and the the Current Parity (CP), Future Parity (FP) and retention value (RV) subindexes within the BFPP index, as well as the Irish national replacement index (RIndex) and the Calf (Calf RIndex) and Cow (Cow RIndex) subindexes within the RIndex and the Irish national terminal index (Terminal)

	BFPP	CP	FP	RV	RIndex	Calf RIndex	Cow RIndex	Terminal
BFPP		0.68	0.84	0.49	0.45	0.29	0.31	0.27
CP			0.55	−0.07	0.17	0.28	0.03NS	0.29
FP				0.14	0.63	0.47	0.4	0.45
RV					0.06NS	−0.15	0.14	−0.16
RIndex						0.29	0.86	0.22
Calf RIndex							−0.18	0.98
Cow RIndex								−0.24

^NSNo significant difference (P > 0.05).