Statistical Terms Glossary

Total number of female students in a given level of education, expressed as a percentage of the total number of students enrolled at that level of education.

Female enrolment in each ISCED level of tertiary education, expressed as a percentage of total enrolment in the same ISCED level.

Number of female teachers at a given level of education, expressed as a percentage of the total number of teachers at the same level of education.

Female headed households shows the percentage of households with a female head.

Total number of new entrants to Grade 1 of primary education who have attended some form of organised early childhood care and education (ECCE) programmes, expressed as a percentage of the total number of new entrants to primary education.

Percentage of total population for under age 25 years and 65 years or over. De facto population as mid-2019. Figures are expressed per 100 total population.

The percentage of the population that has access to electricity, based on national household surveys.

Percentage of population World Health Organization [WHO] have health insurance.

Total number of students in the given level of education enrolled in institutions that are not operated by a public authority but controlled and managed, whether for profit or not, by a private body (e.g., non-governmental organisation, religious body, special interest group, foundation or business enterprise), expressed as a percentage of total number of students enrolled in the given level of education.

Total number of students who are enrolled in the same grade as the previous year, expressed as a percentage of total enrolment in the given grade of education.

Percentage of stunting (height-for-age less than -2 standard deviations of the World Health Organization [WHO] Child Growth Standards median) among children aged 0-5 years.

Percentage of underweight (weight-for-age less than -2 standard deviations of the World Health Organization [WHO] Child Growth Standards median) among children aged 0-5 years.

Total number of students enrolled in vocational programmes at a given level of education, expressed as a percentage of the total number of students enrolled in all programmes (vocational and general) at that level.

Percentage of (weight-for-height less than -2 standard deviations of the World Health Organization [WHO] Child Growth Standards median) among children aged 0-5 years.

This proportion of youth (aged 15-24 years) not in education, employment or training, also known as "the NEET rate", conveys the number of young persons not in education, employment or training as a percentage of the total youth population.

A qualitative term applying to the downward movement of water through soil which is saturated or nearly so at hydraulic gradients of one or less. (Terminology for integrated resource planning and management, 1999 - X2079E)

A perennial is a plant that lives from year to year, becoming dormant after one growing season and sending up new shoots for the next growing season

A plant that flowers continuously for several years.

Perfect competition is defined by four conditions (in a well-defined market):
a) There is such a large number of buyers and sellers that none can individually effect the market price. This means that the demand curve facing an individual firm is perfectly elastic.
b) In the long run, resources must be freely mobile, meaning that there are no barriers to entry and exit.
c) All market participants (buyers and sellers) must have full access to the knowledge relevant to their production and consumption decisions.
d) The product should be homogenous.
When these conditions are fulfilled in any well-defined market, the market is perfectly competitive; when they are fulfilled in all markets, the economy is perfectly competitive.

A construct within the International Classification of Functioning that describes what individuals do in their current environment, including their involvement in life situations. The current environment is described using environmental factors.

Assessment against a set of predetermined criteria of the efficiency and effectiveness with which an individual fulfils an agreed set of tasks. Such appraisals are frequently used in assessing whether managers should qualify for pay increases or promotion.

Assessment against a set of predetermined criteria of the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which an organisation carries out a particular activity or range of activities. Organisations may be set regular targets on particular aspects of their performance—financial returns, efficiency, quality of services supplied, etc.—against which their performance is monitored and evaluated.

Audit covering economy, efficiency and effectiveness aspects of social programmes (or any other activity).

A specific state, or variable, which can be monitored in a system e.g. a fishery to give a measure of the state of the system at any given time. In fisheries management, each performance indicator would be linked to one or more reference points and used to track the state of the fishery in relation to those reference points

Is how organizations, public and private, measure the quality of their activities and services.

In a memorandum of understanding between the United Nations and a contributor, such performance standards are established for major equipment and self-sustainment.