Statistical Terms Glossary

Adopted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 1988, and amended in 1996, the Basel Capital Accord is an internationally agreed set of supervisory regulations governing the capital adequacy of international banks—capital is measured in relation to the perceived credit and market risk of the assets owned by the banks.

Basel Accords are capital adequacy standards that are formulated by the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision (BCBS), which resides in Basel, Switzerland. National regulators usually implement the standards to regulate the bank capital and to ensure health in the banking system. By now there are three accords published, improving upon the previous one: Basel I, Basel II, Basel III.

Established by the Central Bank Governors of the Group of Ten (G-10) countries at the end of 1974, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) formulates broad supervisory standards and guidelines. It also recommends statements of best practice in the expectation that individual authorities will take steps to implement them through detailed arrangements—statutory or otherwise—which are best suited to their own national systems.

The horizontal line intersecting at amidships the keel line.

Is a housing unit that has some but not all of the essential features of a conventional dwelling. It is a permanent structure or a part of a permanent structure, hence it may be a room or a suite of rooms in a permanent building but it is without some of the conventional dwelling facilities such as a kitchen, fixed bath or shower, piped water or toilet.In a number of countries or areas, a certain proportion of the housing inventory comprises such housing units which possess some but not all the characteristics of conventional dwellings.

Whole range of educational activities, taking place in various settings, that aim to meet basic learning needs as defined in the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990). According to ISCED standard, basic education comprises primary education (first stage of basic education) and lower secondary education (second stage). It also covers a wide variety of non-formal and informal public and private activities intended to meet the basic learning needs of people of all ages.

The lowest level of aggregation of items in the GDP breakdown for which parities are calculated.

The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating system. The BIOS is stored in ROM, or equivalent, in every PC. Its main task is to load and execute the operating system which is usually stored on the computer's hard disk, but may be loaded from CD-ROM or floppy disk at install time.

Comprise both essential learning tools (such as literacy, oral expression, numeracy, and problem solving) and the basic learning content (such as the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes) required by human beings to survive, to develop their full capacities, to live and work in dignity, to participate fully in development, to improve the quality of their lives, to make informed decisions, and to continue learning.

The by-product gas of the production of steel in a basic oxygen furnace. The gas is recovered as it leaves the furnace.

See: Basic state pension

The basic price is the amount receivable by the producer from the purchaser for a unit of a good or service produced as output minus any tax payable, and plus any subsidy receivable, on that unit as a consequence of its production or sale; it excludes any transport charges invoiced separately by the producer.

An Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) configuration defined in the physical layer standard I.430 produced by the ITU. It is one of two configurations for use in the access network, the other being primary rate interface. The BRI configuration provides two 64 kbit/s "bearer" channels (B channels) and one 16 kbit/s "Delta" channel (D channel). The B channels are used for voice or user data, and the D channel is used for any combination of: data, control/signalling and X.25 packet networking. The two B channels can be bonded together giving a total data rate of 128 kbit/s. BRI is the kind of ISDN interface most likely to be found in residential service

A non-earning related pension paid by the State to individuals with a minimum number of service years.

The transport of one type of goods (defined by reference to a particular nomenclature level) between its place of loading and its place of unloading.

Area dominated by rock outcrops. The remainder may be covered by shallow soils or isolated pockets filled with soil or sand or a mixture of both. This rock surface is continuous except for a few cracks.

An irrigation method in which crops are surrounded by a border to form a submersion check called basin of round, square or any other form. Irrigation water generally comes directly from the supply ditch/canal or from other basins.

A surface irrigation method in which crops are surrounded by a border to form a submersion check called basin of round, square or any other form.

Basing point pricing (also known as delivered pricing) refers to a system in which a buyer must pay a price for a product inclusive of freight costs that does not depend on the location of the seller.

The difference paid between the cash price of a financial instrument and the price of a related futures contract.

Type of interest rate swap involving a floating rate against one reference rate to a floating rate against another reference rate.

See program trading.

Entering a group of source documents into the computer

An operating mode in which a program requires no input from the user apart from the initial command which actually starts the program. The information necessary for the operation of a program in this mode must be gleaned from an initialisation file which contains all the commands to perform in a specified order

The bathroom is defined as the room used for taking a shower or a bath. It has a door that could be closed during the shower. Bathroom are classified as follows: 1. Bathroom with Piped Water: This category applies to cases involving a water tap in the Bathroom. 2. Bathroom without Piped Water: This category applies to cases not involving a water tap in the Bathroom. 3. No Bathroom: This category applies when there is no separate Bathroom in the Housing unit.