Statistical Terms Glossary

Road transport between two places (a place of loading/embarkment and a place of unloading/disembarkment) located in the same country irrespective of the country in which the vehicle is registered. It may involve transit through a second country.

A road vehicle registered in the reporting country and bearing registration plates of that country, or having been separately registered (trams, trolleybuses, etc.).

The equivalent of tariff schedules in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), laying down the commitments accepted — voluntarily or through negotiation — by World Trade Organisation (WTO) members.

Sea traffic between two ports of a national territory or one port sea traffic, irrespective of the country in which the vessel is registered.

Sea transport between two ports of a national territory or one port sea transport within national territory.
Note: National sea transport can be performed by a merchant ship registered in the declaring country or in another country.

In general, each country or economy has a single recognized Standards Body (NSB). NSBs may be either public or private sector organizations, or combinations of the two.

See: National Statistical Institute

The national statistical institute is the leading statistical body within a national statistical system that is in charge of producing and disseminating official statistics.

See: National Statistical Institute

Produces independent information to improve our understanding of the UK's economy and society. Reliable and impartial statistics are vital for planning the proper allocation of resources, policy-making and decision-making to ensure a fair society

To design indicators for the measurement of S&T and innovation in their region;
• To provide the international comparability and interchange of information on STI, and the
development of comparative studies;
• To organize international and regional programmes for compiling information on STI;
• To organize international workshops and meetings about the Network's main subjects;
• To publish information, papers and analysis of indicators, and to develop information processes on S&Tand innovation;
• To provide the interface for the relation with public S&T statistics organisms;
• To train experts on statistics and S&T indicators;
• To promote the region’s incorporation to the international system of S&T indicators by adapting the
internationally accepted standards;
• The generation of a Latin American standard adapted to the regional specificities: the institutional parameters according to the national organisms characteristics.

All the territory within the national boundaries, including the national environment.

National tourism is the tourism of resident visitors, within and outside the economic territory of the country of reference.

National tourism consumption comprises the consumption of resident visitors, within and outside the economic territory of the country of reference. It is the sum of domestic tourism consumption and outbound tourism consumption.
These purchases may include domestically produced goods and services and goods and services imported from non-resident producers.

The principle of giving others the same treatment as one’s own nationals. GATT Article III requires that imports be treated no less favourably than the same or similar domestically-produced goods once they have passed customs.
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Article XVII and the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Article 3 also deal with national treatment for services and intellectual property protection.

Is the leading trade association representing the venture capital industry in the U.S. The NVCA represents the venture industry in public policy debates in Washington, DC, and promotes high professional standards, professional development, and interaction amongst member firms.

National wealth is the sum, for the economy as a whole, of non-financial assets and net claims on the rest of the world

A national machinery for the advancement of women is the central policy-coordinating unit inside government. Its main task is to support the government-wide mainstreaming of a gender-equality perspective in all policy areas.

Service provided specifically to serve only, or predominantly, women victims of violence.

Country of residence of the head office of an institutional entity.

The flag of the vessel performing the essential part of the operation catching the fish, should be considered the paramount indication of the nationality assigned to the catch data and this indication overridden only when one of the following arrangements between a foreign flag vessel and the host country exists: (a) the vessel is chartered by the host country to augment its fishing fleet; or (b) the vessel fishes for the country by joint venture contract or similar agreements (as opposed to the ad hoc practice of a vessel selling catches to a foreign vessel or landing catches at a foreign port) and the operation of such vessel is an integral part of the economy of the host country. When governments negotiate joint ventures or other contracts in which vessels of one country land their catches at ports of another country or unload their catches to vessels of another country and the one of the above-mentioned criteria is applicable, the assignment of nationality to such catches and landings data should be specified in the agreement.

Country and/or territory authorizing the registry of a seagoing vessel.

“Native” students are those students who reported in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that they were born in the country of assessment and who had at least one parent born in that country.

Natural assets are assets of the natural environment. These consist of biological assets (produced or wild), land and water areas with their ecosystems, subsoil assets and air.

Consist of animals, birds, fish and plants that yield both once only and repeat products for which natural growth and/or regeneration is not under the direct control, responsibility and management of institutional units.

Natural capital are natural assets in their role of providing natural resource inputs and environmental services for economic production.

Forests with natural species and ecological processes and for which there has been continuity of ecological processes over a very long period of time. The time period of continuity is sometimes quoted as being of more than 200 years but this may not be relevant for all types of forests.