Statistical Terms Glossary

Refers to fish species or stocks that carry out extensive migrations and can occur in both EEZs and high seas. This term is usually used to denote tuna and tuna-like species, marlins and swordfish.

Seventeen middle-income countries deemed to have encountered severe debt servicing difficulties: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, CMte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico,
Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Uruguay, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. The Bank uses both heavily and highly. The World Development Report, World Debt Tables 1988-1989 and UNDP use highly. The IMF and United Nations Statistical Office use heavily. OECD uses debt-distressed, while the 1989-1990 World Debt Tables use severely indebted country.

The term high seas fisheries refers to those resources distributed exclusively in the high seas, i.e. in waters beyond the areas of national jurisdiction (which can be 200 nautical miles or less) excluding species fixed on the continental shelf which remain under the sovereign rights of the coastal States.

A principal railway line allowing traffic at speeds equal to or greater than 200 km/h on upgraded lines and 250 km/h on especially built lines.

Heavy fuel oil with sulphur content of 1 per cent or higher.

Hima is the governance system of an area protected by local authority for public interest and natural habitat conservation.

To limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something.

A durable good is sold to a purchaser in return for agreed future payments. The buyer takes possession of the good immediately, though in law it remains the property of the seller or financier as collateral/guarantee until all agreed payments have been made. Hire purchase is usually restricted to consumer durables, and most purchasers are households. Financiers of hire purchase contracts typically are separate institutional units operating in close co-operation with sellers of durable goods.

Person who manages an agricultural holding on behalf of the agricultural holder.

Historic cost accounting is a valuation method which requires goods or assets used in production to be valued by the expenditures actually incurred to acquire those goods or assets, however far back in the past those expenditures took place; it is commonly used in business accounting but not in the national accounts.

Historic monuments are fixed assets that are identifiable because of particular historic, national, regional, local, religious or symbolic significance; they are usually accessible to the general public, and visitors are often charged for admission to the monuments or their vicinity.

The historic price is the price that was actually paid for an asset when it was first acquired by a resident user. It is a synonym for “acquisition price”

Historic volatility is the standard deviation of financial returns on an asset computed over a window of a pre-specified number of past trading dates.

When a unit has ceased and is not dormant (temporary inactive), for purpose of reconstructing demographic events the record needs to be marked historical and not to be deleted physically.

A historical register is a version of the register with the capacity to view the content of a live register at some time point in the past.

Varieties or cultivars, including locally adapted cultivars, which were once registered on formal (official) variety lists but have since been de-listed and made redundant.

A civil or judicial person who exercises management control over the agricultural holding operation and takes major decisions regarding resource use. The holder has technical and economic responsibility for the holding and may undertake all responsibilities directly, or delegate responsibilities related to day-to-day work management to a hired manager.

One or more parcels of forest and other wooded land which constitute a single unit from the point of view of management or utilization. for state-owned forest and other wooded land a holding may be defined as the area forming a major management unit administered by a senior official, e.g. a regional forestry officer. for forest and other wooded land that is owned publicly, other than by the state, or owned by large-scale forest owners, e.g. forest industries, a holding may constitute a number of separated properties which are, however, managed according to: one corporate strategy. under any category of ownership, other than state-owned, one holding may be the property of one or several owners.