Statistical Terms Glossary

A regional trading arrangement is an agreement among governments to liberalise trade and possibly to co-ordinate other trade related activities. There are four principal types of regional trading arrangements a:
- free trade area;
- customs union;
- common market;
- economic union.

The practice of building up world International Comparison Project (ICP) comparisons on the basis of comparisons carried out in various country groupings such as EU or ESCAP.

See: Register snapshot

A copy of all the statistical units in the live register as of a given point in time, including all administrative units or links from statistical units to administrative units. The snapshot is an intermediary step between the live register and the frozen frame. It is used to check for errors that have crept in during processing since the previous snapshot, also as the basis for a historical record. It may contain many inactive enterprises.

Average annual number of births over a given period. Refers to five-year periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the initial and final years. Data are presented in thousands.

Number of deaths over a given period. Refers to five-year periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the initial and final years. Data are presented in thousands.

Number of divorces registered in a current year.

Number of marriages registered in a current year.

A security whose ownership is determined by the name in which it is registered as opposed to a bearer security whose ownership is determined by who possesses it.

Stock which cannot be transferred without placing the signature of the owner upon the books of the issuing corporation and delivery of the certificate.

A person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby).

A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authority, to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and offer such services to the public.

Refers to continuous, permanent, compulsory recording of the occurrence of vital events together with certain identifying or descriptive characteristics concerning them, as provided through the civil code, laws or regulations of each country.

Continuous, permanent and compulsory recording of the occurrence of vital events, together with certain identifying or descriptive characteristics relating to such events, regulated by the civil code, laws or regulations of each country. Such vital events may include live births, deaths, foetal deaths, marriages, divorces, judicial separations, marriage annulments, adoptions, recognitions (legal acknowledgement of natural children) and legitimations.

An application which stores metadata for querying, and which can be used by any other application in the network with sufficient access privileges.

A mechanism for registering metadata about digital entities and storing metadata schemas, and which provides an ability to search the registry for persistent identifiers based on the use of the metadata schemas.

Uses data from passed edit records to regress the variable for which imputation is required on a set of predictor variables.

Initial education designed for individuals without special educational needs.

Regular employees are those employees with stable contracts for whom the employing organization is responsible for payment of relevant taxes and social security contributions and/or where the contractual relationship is subject to national labour legislation.

A series of flights fulfilling at least the following conditions: they are performed by a passenger aircraft, their tickets are open for free sale to the general public; they are planned and adjusted according to the needs of traffic, carried out according to existing aviation agreements, The operating license and the fixed timetables are also available to the general public.

The Bank lending program that includes the base lending program and the standby program.

Refers to funds that are made up of untied (not earmarked) voluntary contributions. As opposed to other resources, which are tied and often come from non-governmental and governmental sources.

Regulation is broadly defined as imposition of rules by government, backed by the use of penalties that are intended specifically to modify the economic behaviour of individuals and firms in the private sector. Various regulatory instruments or targets exist. Prices, output, rate of return (in the form of profits, margins or commissions), disclosure of information, standards and ownership ceilings are among those frequently used.