Statistical Terms Glossary

The adjustment for the change in the net equity of households in pension fund reserves is equal to the total value of the actual social contributions payable into private funded pension schemes plus the total value of contribution supplements payable out

Is a price fixed by policy makers in order to determine, directly or indirectly, domestic market or producer prices.

Administered prices are prices set by firms that do not vary in response to short-run fluctuations in demand and supply conditions.

The operation and oversight of a pension fund.

An administrative business register is a regularly updated structured list of specific business units in a territorial area, which is maintained by administrative authorities for administrative, legal or taxation purposes (e.g. recording and maintaining certain details of businesses or taxation).

Refer to non-financial procedures and records of ministries which ensure compliance with rules governing activities such as: the appointment, promotion and disciplining of personnel; public procurement; equal opportunities for minority groups; the handling of correspondence; travel and entertainment, etc.

Data originally collected for non-statistical purpose. Control of the methods by which the administrative data are collected and processed rests with the administrative agency. In most cases the administrative authority will be a government unit.

A collection of administrative information for an administered item.

A register is a written and complete record containing regular entries of items and details on particular set of objects. Typically, a register is a structured list of units, containing a number of attributes for each of those units, and having some sort of regular updating mechanism. Registers maintained by administrative authorities for administrative purposes can be considered to be administrative registers. 'Administrative register' is an umbrella term and covers for example records collected for business registers or personal registers for administrative purposes

Administrative regulations are paperwork and administrative formalities - so-called "red tape"- through which governments collect information and intervene in individual economic decisions.

Administrative source are files of data collected by government bodies for the purposes of administering taxes and benefits or monitoring populations. More generally, administrative sources contain information that is not primarily collected for statistical purposes

An administrative unit is designed for the purposes of conforming with an administrative regulation, for example for registration purposes or for accounting purposes of VAT and other taxes

Fee charged by a stock exchange for applying for a stock to be listed on that exchange.

Admitted patients to hospital for treatment or diagnosis and their stay at hospital for one night or more.

Annual number of births to women aged 15-19 years per 1000 women in that age group. It is also referred to as the age-specific fertility rate for women aged 15-19 years.

Adolescent pregnancies are a global problem occurring in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. Around the world, however, adolescent pregnancies are more likely to occur in marginalized communities, commonly driven by poverty and lack of education and employment opportunities.

The legal and voluntary taking and treating of the child of other parents as one’s own, insofar as provided by the laws of each country.

ADOPT is an MS Excel-based tool that evaluates and predicts the likely level of adoption and diffusion of specific agricultural innovations with a particular target population in mind.

Biomass of the stock (or of a cohort) which has already spawned at least once.; The total weight of all sexually mature fish in the population (both males and females). This quantity depends on the abundance of year classes, the exploitation pattern, the rate of growth, both fishing and natural mortality rates, the onset of sexual maturity, and environmental conditions.

Education specifically targeting individuals who are regarded as adults by the society to which they belong to improve their technical or professional qualifications, further develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge with the purpose to complete a level of formal education, or to acquire knowledge, skills and competencies in a new field or to refresh or update their knowledge in a particular field. This also includes what may be referred to as ‘continuing education’, ‘recurrent education’ or ‘second chance education’.

Percentage of population aged 15 years and over who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on his/her everyday life. Generally, ‘literacy’ also encompasses ‘numeracy’, the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations. Adult illiteracy is defined as the percentage of the population aged 15 years and over who cannot both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on his/her everyday life.

To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.

Sexual contact by a person (male or female) with someone other than his/her spouse.