Statistical Terms Glossary

Return to capital is what is left from gross operating surplus when consumption of fixed capital and depletion are deducted. Alternatively it is the value of capital services flows less consumption of fixed capital.

Returning migrants are persons returning to their country of citizenship after having been international migrants (whether short-term or long- term) in another country and who are intending to stay in their own country for at least a year.

Returns to scale refers to the rate by which output changes if all inputs are changed by the same factor. Constant returns to scale: a k-fold change in all inputs leads to a k-fold change in output. Under increasing returns to scale, the change in output

Reuse is the use of materials or products more than once, for example, refilling of bottles

Annual quantity of treated wastewater which is reused.

Is wastewater supplied to a user for further use with or without prior treatment.

The revaluation account records the positive or negative holding gains accruing during the accounting period to the owners of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities.

A ratio establishing the appreciation or depreciation due to exchange rate changes in the U.S. dollar value of currencies in the pool from one date to another. It is calculated by dividing, as of any day, the total U.S. dollar value at the exchange rates of that day of the balances of currencies in the pool brought forward from the previous day, by their total U.S. dollar value at the exchange rates of the previous day.

As the ratio of two shares. The numerator is the share of a country’s total exports of the commodity of interest in its total exports. The denominator is share of world exports of the same commodity in total world exports.

Techniques that derive the values of environmental goods and services form market prices. They comprise market valuation of economic losses, hedonic pricing methods and travel costs methods

Non-consensual pornography (the most common form of which is known as ‘revenge porn’) involves the online distribution of sexually graphic photographs or videos without the consent of the individual in the images. The perpetrator is often an ex-partner who obtains images or videos in the course of a prior relationship, and aims to publicly shame and humiliate the victim, in retaliation for ending a relationship. However, perpetrators are not necessarily partners or ex-partners and the motive is not always revenge.

See: Turnover

A commercial passenger for whose transportation an air carrier receives commercial remuneration.

Long-term borrowings that are used to fund specific projects. They are repaid from the income that will be generated by the project.

A passenger for whose transportation the transport carrier receives commercial remuneration.

A passenger for whose transportation a rail enterprise receives commercial remuneration.

A traffic stop for purpose of taking on and/or taking off revenue load.

A tonne-kilometre is a metric tonne of revenue load carried one kilometre. Tonne-kilometres performed equals the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the total number of tonnes of each category of revenue load carried by the airport-to-airport distance.

Short-term municipal borrowings that fund current operations and are to be funded by revenues other than taxes, especially U.S. federal aid.

See profitability ratios.

Revenues (or total revenue) refer to the value of output sold, that is the number of units times the price per unit. Average revenue is revenue per unit, that is total revenue divided by the amount of output sold. Average revenue is therefore equal to price per unit.
Marginal revenue is the increment in total revenue resulting from the sale of an additional unit.
The term "revenue" is often used interchangeably with "sales" and "turnover".

Amounts expressed in monetary units which are entered in the accounts as credit to the railway enterprise.

Amounts expressed in monetary units which are entered in the accounts as credit to the inland waterways transport (IWT) enterprise.

Amounts expressed in monetary units which are entered in the accounts as credit to the oil pipeline transport enterprise

Amounts expressed in monetary units which are entered in the accounts as credit to the road transport enterprise.

Amounts expressed in monetary units which are entered in the accounts as credit to the sea transport enterprise.