Statistical Terms Glossary

Accidental exposure of information to a person not authorized access.

Number of students from abroad studying in a given country, expressed as a percentage of total tertiary enrolment in that country.

Inbound tourism is the tourism of non-resident visitors within the economic territory of the country of reference

Inbound tourism consumption comprises the consumption of non-resident visitors within the economic territory of the country of reference and/or that provided by residents. Purchases that took place in other countries are excluded. The goods and services purchased in the country may have been imported.

A management measure intended to motivate or encourage stakeholders to conduct their activities in a responsible way that contributes towards achieving the goals and objectives. Incentive measures can include, for example, implementation of suitable systems of access rights, taxes and subsidies and market incentives such as ecolabelling and tradable access or property rights.

Sexual relations between close relatives, such as between father and daughter, mother and son, sister and brother. It is also called sexual abuse within the family.

Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 person-years among the uninfected population. The incidence rate is the number of new cases per population at risk in a given time period.

The number of people who develop a disease due to the population who are exposed to the disease for each specified period of time.

Various forms of learning that are not organized or that involve communication not designed to bring about learning. Incidental or random learning may occur as a by-product of day-to-day activities, events or communication that are not designed as deliberate educational or learning activities. Examples may include learning that takes place during the course of a meeting, whilst listening to a radio programme, or watching a television broadcast that is not designed as an education programme.

Incineration is the controlled burning of solid, liquid or gaseous waste materials at high temperatures

Incineration at sea is the disposal of waste by burning at sea on specially designed incinerator ships. Ocean incineration includes the burning of organo-chlorine compounds and other toxic wastes that are difficult to dispose of

Incineration with recovery of energy refers to the incineration in which evolving thermal energy is used for the production of steam, hot water or electric energy

An incinerator is a furnace for burning wastes under controlled conditions

The act of including something as a part of something else.

Including everything or all types of people.

A phrase used in deliberations about sustainable development, poverty eradication and achievement of MDGs

Is a society that over-rides differences of race, gender, class, generation, and geography, and ensures inclusion, equality of opportunity as well as capability of all members of the society to determine an agreed set of social institutions that govern social interaction.

Income, as it is generally understood in economics, is theoretically defined as the maximum amount that a household, or other unit, can consume without reducing its real net worth. Disposable income in the System of National Accounts is equivalent to the economic theoretic concept only when the net worth at the beginning of the period is not changed by capital transfers, other changes in the volume of assets or real holding gains or losses.

In the U.S., bonds which are guaranteed as to principal but which have interest payments as a contingent obligation, that are required only if earned and then assented to by the board of directors. Failure to pay interest does not constitute default. (Note that in the U.K., income bond refers to a type of fixed-interest investment offered by life insurance companies, consisting of an immediate annuity plus a deferred annuity.)