Statistical Terms Glossary

A Hazard Analysis [and] Critical Control Point[s] (HACCP) system is a set of procedures intended to predict food safety risks and prevent them before they happen. It entails identifying all the points in product processing and distribution where quality can be degraded (e.g., through improper temperature, improper handling, etc.) and checking those points to prevent problems (in contrast with procedures that check quality at the end of the processing and distribution chain, by which time damage may have already been done)

Extra pay to an individual worker or a group of workers working under dangerous or undesirable conditions.

Hazardous air pollutants are air pollutants that may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death. They include asbestos, beryllium, mercury, benzene, coke oven emissions, radionuclides and vinyl chloride

The categories of hazardous goods carried by inland waterways are those defined by the European Provisions Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (ADN).

The classes of hazardous goods carried by rail are those defined by the International Regulations concerning the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID).

The categories of hazardous goods carried by road are those defined by the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR).

A hazardous substance is any substance that poses a threat to human health and the environment. Hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive or chemically reactive

The two categories of treatment of hazardous waste are:
(a) physical hazardous waste treatment: an approach including phase separation, such as through lagooning, filtration or centrifugation, and solidification into hard material allowing for landfill disposal;
(b) thermal hazardous waste treatment: high—temperature oxidation of wastes that converts them into gases and solid residues

Hazardous wastes are wastes that, owing to their toxic, infectious, radioactive or flammable properties pose a substantial actual or potential hazard to the health of humans and other living organisms and the environment

Form of bar chart used in bar chart analysis of securities which indicates the movement of a security up and down (or down and up) with three peaks, the middle one being the higher (and thereby giving the chart the form of a head above a pair of shoulders).

This refers to the method of data collection: the number of individuals are counted, regardless of the intensity of participation/length of their programme.

Is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet, that has a small display optic in front of one (monocular HMD) or each eye (binocular HMD).

One of the members of the household recognised as the head of the unit by the other members of the household unit or by himself (or herself) if living alone.

The person who usually lives with the household and is recognized as head of household by its other members. Often he/she is the main decision maker and is responsible for financial support and welfare of the household.

Person responsible for securities trading in an organization.

Head offices are units exercising some aspects of managerial control over its subsidiaries. Their activities include the overseeing and managing of other units of the company or enterprise; undertaking the strategic or organizational planning and decision making role of the company or enterprise; exercising operational control and manage the dayto-day operations of their related units.

The head office of a bank refers to a banking office exercising control over and/or ownership of one or more affiliates

Are budgetary payments made to individual producers on the basis of the number of head of a specific type of livestock to supplement producer returns earned through sales at market prices.

The difference between the statutory limit on lending and the value of loans that are disbursed and outstanding.

A style of data entry in which the data entry machine does
not detect errors in the data as they are entered, allowing the operator to enter the data rapidly.

A style of data entry in which the data entry machine detects errors in the data as they are entered, allowing the operator to correct the errors immediately (Pierzchala, 1995). See “interactive keying”.

Many definitions exist. As defined by the World Health Organization: “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.

The System of Health Accounts provides for health accounting an economic framework and accounting rules which are methodologically compatible with the System of National Accounts, 1993 Revision.