Statistical Terms Glossary

Distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.

Any distinction, exclusion or restriction on the basis of disability which has the purpose or effect of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal basis with others, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. It includes all forms of discrimination, including denial of reasonable accommodation.

See Economies of scale.

Disembodied technical change is the shift in the production function (production frontier) over time. Disembodied technical change is not incorporated in a specific factor of production.

Is a PV system made up of modules including concentrating optical components. The objective of a C-System is to improve the PV module performance by increasing the sunlight intensity falling on the cell.

A type of fish pass suited only to low weirs (not exceeding 5 feet in height) of easy gradient (not steeper than 1 in 4) situated in a narrow river consisting of a depression or cut in the crest of the weir connected downstream by a converging channel through which fish pass.

1. Shift of funds away from financial intermediaries (commercial banks, etc.) into Treasury bills and other securities.
2. Shift by large corporations away from banks to a parallel market, involving other large corporations.

Are employees whose employment ended involuntary. It includes those employees who were dismissed, made redundant, or lost their job because their employer either went out of business, or sold or closed down the business.

The displacement of people refers to the forced movement of people from their locality or environment and occupational activities. It is a form of social change caused by a number of factors, the most common being armed conflict. Natural disasters, famine, development and economic changes may also be a cause of displacement.

Refers to the forced movement of people from their locality or environment and occupational activities. It is a form of social change caused by a number of factors, the most common being armed conflict. Natural disasters, famine, development and economic changes may also be a cause of displacement.

Disposable income is derived from the balance of primary incomes of an institutional unit or sector by adding all current transfers, except social transfers in kind, receivable by that unit or sector and subtracting all current transfers, except social transfers in kind, receivable by that unit or sector and subtracting all current transfers, except social transfers in kind, payable by that unit or sector; it is the balancing item in the Secondary Distribution of Income Account.

Disposal of waste refers to waste elimination techniques comprising landfills, containment, underground disposal, dumping at sea and all other disposal methods

Disposals of assets (inventories, fixed assets or land or other non-produced assets) by institutional units occur when one of those units sells or transfers any of the assets to another institutional unit; when the ownership of an existing fixed asset is transferred from one resident producer to another, the value of the asset sold, bartered or transferred is recorded as negative gross fixed capital formation by the former and as positive gross fixed capital formation by the latter.

Was established in 1996 to guide countries that have, or that might seek, access to international capital markets in the dissemination of economic and financial data to the public.

The dispersion into the environment of materials (residuals) due to the abrasion of car tyres and brakes, as well as residuals corresponding to ‘deliberate disposal’ of products such as fertilisers and pesticides. Pesticides, fertilisers and compost, thawing materials applied to roadways in winter, and seeds are all examples of products deliberately transmitted to the environment and that thus need to be included in the flows from the economy into the environment.

Cover products that are deliberately released to the environment as part of production processes.

It refers to chemical concept means the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water.

Distance is defined as the length of the travelled track.

For numeric data, a function defined on the matching variables of both the recipient (candidate) and donor records and used to quantify the concept of similarity. Used to find matching records in hot deck imputation.

Assigns an item value for a failed edit record from a “nearest” passed edit record, where “nearest” is defined using a distance function in terms of other known variables.

A field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site".