Statistical Terms Glossary

Is a term usually used in conjunction with ERP software or an ERP system which is intended to manage all the information and functions of a business or company from shared data stores. An ERP system typically has modular hardware and software units and "services" that communicate on a local area network. The modular design allows a business to add or reconfigure modules (perhaps from different vendors) while preserving data integrity in one shared database that may be centralized or distributed.

Entertainment, literary or artistic originals are the original films, sound recordings, manuscripts, tapes, models, etc, on which drama performances, radio and television programming, musical performances, sporting events, literary and artistic output, et etc, are recorded or embodied.

In institutional economics, a relationship, such as ownership or leasehold, to an asset or a stream of income, as distinct from the income or asset itself. In a private ownership market economy, entitlements may be based on inheritance or transfer, or on acquisition of commodities through trade, entrepreneurship, or own labour. The concept of entitlements comes from law, and is useful to underscore institutional structure - whether of property ownership or a job contract. It links economic outcomes to social elements, the law and practice.

A person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. He or she is an ambitious leader who combines land, labour, and capital to often create and market new goods or services. ... [1] The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome. Jean-Baptiste Say, a French economist, believed to have coined the word Entrepreneur first in about at 1800. He said an entrepreneur is "one who undertakes an enterprise, especially a contractor, acting as intermediatory between capital and labour"

The entrepreneurial income for a corporation, quasi-corporation, or institutional unit owning an unincorporated enterprise engaged in market production is its operating surplus or mixed income plus property income receivable on the financial or other assets owned by the enterprise, minus interest payable on the liabilities of the enterprise and rents payable on land or other tangible non-produced assets rented by the enterprise.

Are foreigners granted the right to long-term settlement in a country on condition that they invest a minimum sum of money or create new productive activities in the receiving country.

Is the act of being an entrepreneur, which is a French word meaning "one who undertakes an endeavor". Entrepreneurs assemble resources including innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods. This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity. The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting new businesses; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include social and political forms of entrepreneurial activity. When entrepreneurship is describing activities within a firm or large organization it is referred to as intra-preneurship and may include corporate venturing, when large entities start spin-off organizations.

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The entry of a loaded or empty road motor vehicle to a country by road.
Note: If a road motor vehicle is entering the country by another mode of transport, only the active mode is considered to have entered that country.

Any loaded or empty road motor vehicle which entered a country by road.

Any laden or unladen inland waterways transport (IWT) vessel which entered the country by inland waterway.

The entry of a laden or unladen IWT vessel to a country by inland waterway.
Note: If an IWT vessel is entering the country by another mode of transport, only the active mode is considered to have entered that country.

Entry rates are expressed as net entry rates, which represent the proportion of people of a synthetic age-cohort who enter the tertiary level of education, irrespective of changes in the population sizes and of differences between OECD countries in the typical entry age.
The net entry rate of a specific age is obtained by dividing the number of first-time entrants to each type of tertiary education of that age by the total population in the corresponding age group (multiplied by 100).
The sum of net entry rates is calculated by adding the net entry rates for each single year of age.

Small geographical unit defined for census enumeration purposes .

The environment is the totality of all the external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism

An environmental impact statement is a document prepared by an agency on the environmental impacts of its project/programme proposals

The grouping of all producers of environmental products ; these consist of cleaner technologies and products, pollution management services and resource management.

A functional tool at the disposal of the authorities and the aquaculture industry (e.g. farmers) for aquaculture management practices in order to ensure the sustainability of the sector itself.

Environment statistics are statistics that describe the state and trends of the environment, covering the media of the natural environment (air/climate, water, land/soil), the biota within the media, and human settlements.

The physical, social & attitudinal environment in which people live & conduct their lives.

Environmental accounting refers to:
- national accounting: physical and monetary accounts of environmental assets and the costs of their depletion and degradation;
- corporate accounting: the term usually refers to environmental auditing, but may also include the costing of environmental impacts caused by the corporation

Activities which reduce or eliminate pressures on the environment and which aim at making more efficient use of natural resources.

Naturally occurring entities that provides environmental “functions” or services. Environmental assets in the SEEA are broader than environmental assets in the SNA: they cover all assets including those which have no economic values, but bring indirect uses benefits, options and bequest benefits or simply existence benefits which cannot be translated into a present day monetary value.

Accounts that describe in physical and/or monetary units the stocks and changes in stocks of environmental assets.

Involves the gradual understanding of environmental issues, and the recognition of the connections among human actions, development, sustainability and human responsibility in these processes. Environmental awareness involves the realization that humans and ecosystems co-exist in a shared environment, which is ultimately the biosphere.

Environmental clean—up refers to action taken to deal with the release of a hazardous substance that could affect humans and/or the environment. The term clean-up is sometimes used interchangeably with the terms remedial action, response action or corrective action as opposed to the terms preventive action or anticipatory action

Environmental conditioning is the modification of the environment of one or more organisms by their activities, including reaction and co-action (liberation of oxygen, for example, by water plants in an aquarium)

Environmental costs are costs connected with the actual or potential deterioration of natural assets due to economic activities.
Such costs can be viewed from two different perspectives, namely as (a) costs caused, that is, costs associated with economic units actually or potentially causing environmental deterioration by their own activities or as (b) costs borne, that is, costs incurred by economic units independently of whether they have actually caused the environmental impacts

Are large amounts of unprocessed observations and measurements about the environment and related processes.

Environmental debt refer to the accumulation of past environmental impacts of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, owed to future generations