Statistical Terms Glossary

The mission of the ESCWA TC is to assist ESCWA member countries and their public and private organizations to acquire the necessary capabilities to accelerate socio-economic development in order to attain technological parity with other nations.

An umbrella term for services on the Internet. E-services include e-commerce transaction services for handling online orders, application hosting by application service providers (ASPs) and any processing capability that is obtainable on the Web.

Is an application specially introduced to the factories within the UAE. Factories owners not only have the latest information regarding industrial promotion but also apply for tax exemption and other industrial
services.

The process of inferring the numerical value of unknown population values from incomplete data, such as a sample.

Items that are imperative for national purposes and international comparability, which all countries are recommended to collect, regardless of their approach to the census.

The establishment is defined as an enterprise or part of an enterprise that is situated in a single location and in which only a single (non-ancillary) productive activity is carried out or in which the principal productive activity accounts for most of the value added.

An establishment involved in a labour dispute is one in which one or more groups of employees are directly involved in action due to a labour dispute, or in which such action is effected by the employer. The definition of an establishment should be in accordance with the most recent guidelines of the United Nations.

Estimated number and rate of deaths due to road traffic fatal injury in the specified year.

Concerned with inference about the numerical value of unknown population values from incomplete data such as a sample.

Estimation bias, or sampling bias, is the difference between the expected value, or mean of the sampling distribution, of an estimator and the true value of the population parameter.

A form of taxation whereby contributions are exempt, investment income and capital gains of the pension fund are taxed and benefits are also exempt from personal income taxation.

Ethane is a naturally gaseous straight-chain hydrocarbon. It is a colourless paraffinic gas which is extracted from natural gas and refinery gas streams.

A local area network first described by Metcalfe & Boggs of Xerox PARC in 1976. Specified by DEC, Intel and XEROX (DIX) as IEEE 802.3 and now recognised as the industry standard.

Deliberate, organized, and usually violent expulsion of people from an area on the basis of their perceived ethnic, communal, sectarian, or religious identity.

Is based on a shared understanding of history and territorial origins (regional and national) of an ethnic group or community, as well as on particular cultural characteristics such as language and/or religion. Respondents’ understanding or views about ethnicity, awareness of their family background, the number of generations they have spent in a country, and the length of time since immigration are all possible factors affecting the reporting of ethnicity in a census. Ethnicity is multidimensional and is more a process than a static concept, and so ethnic classification should be treated with movable boundaries.

The EURIBOR (or euro interbank offered rate) is the rate at which a prime bank is willing to lend funds in euro to another prime bank. The EURIBOR is computed daily for interbank deposits with a maturity of one week and one to 12 months as the average of the daily offer rates of a representative panel of prime banks, rounded to three decimal places

The euro is the name of the European currency adopted by the European Council at its meeting in Madrid on 15 and 16 December 1995 and used instead of the European Currency Unit (ECU)

Is the area comprising those [European Union] Member States in which the euro has been adopted as the single currency in accordance with the Treaty and in which a single monetary policy is conducted under the responsibility of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB). In 2012 the Euro area comprised Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Spain.

Euro Commercial Paper is an unsecured general obligation in the form of a promissory bearer note, issued on a discount or interest-bearing basis by large commercial and industrial organizations. Maturities of ECP range from a few days up to one year, with most being 182 days; the minimum amount is usually $500,000.

The EuroGroups Register (EGR) is a network of registers, consisting of a central register kept at Eurostat and registers in each EU Member State and in EFTA countries. The central register contains information about multinational enterprise groups, which have statistically relevant financial and non-financial transnational operations in at least one of the European countries. Registers in the EU Member States and in EFTA countries contain information regarding multinational enterprise groups active in the respective countries and are fully consistent with the central register. The aim of the EGR network is to hold a complete, accurate, consistent and up-to-date set of linked and coordinated statistical registers, which offer compilers a common frame of multinational enterprise groups, global as well as truncated national groups, operating in the economy of the EU and EFTA countries, together with their constituent legal units and enterprises and the ownership and control relationships between legal units.

STOXX Limited (www.stoxx.com) publishes the Dow Jones STOXX indices which measure stock price developments in Europe as a whole. The Dow Jones EURO STOXX index is one member of this index family.
This index aggregates the prices of a broad range of stocks from those countries belonging to the euro area. Furthermore, three types of sector index (economic and market sectors as well as industry groups) are available for the Dow Jones EURO STOXX index

See Euro area

Bond issued by a borrower in a foreign country, denominated in a Eurocurrency (e.g. US dollar, Canadian dollar, yen, euro, etc), under-written and sold by an international syndicate of financial institutions.

Notes sold in London for same day settlement in U.S. dollars in New York. The maturities are more tailored to the needs of issuer and investor than the standard Euronote terms of 1, 3 and 6 months.

Any lending made using Eurocurrency, generally a medium-term bank loan.