Statistical Terms Glossary

The actual and imputed final consumption expenditure incurred by general government on individual goods and services.

The actual and imputed final consumption expenditure incurred by households on individual goods and services. It also includes expenditure on individual goods and services sold at prices that are not economically significant. By definition, all final consumption expenditures of households are for the benefit of individual households and are individual.

The actual and imputed final consumption expenditure incurred by NPISHs on individual goods and services. In practice, most final consumption expenditures of NPISHs are individual in nature and so, for simplicity, all final consumption expenditures of NPISHs are treated by convention as individual.

An individual consumption good or service is one that is acquired by a household and used to satisfy the needs and wants of members of that household.

The government (or general) ledger is the book where all transactions by the central government, as a debit or a credit, are recorded.

Instantaneous relative rate of change of a function of the individual weight, w, that is, H(wOO)-H(w), where wOO is the asymptotic individual weight and H(w) is a function of w (frequently a power function, including the logarithmic function). The adopted models for the function H(w) have two constants, wOO and K. Some models introduce one more parameter, b, which is used to obtain a general relation to include the most common individual growth relations. The constant K has the physical dimension of time -1.

Systems located downstream of the outlets served by the collective irrigation system and meant to deliver water to the farms or fields of an individual area.

A pension fund that comprises the assets of a single member and his/her beneficiaries, usually in the form of an individual account.

A quota (possibly a percentage) of a total allowable catch (TAC) assigned to an individual, a vessel or a company. If an individual quota is transferable, it is referred to as an Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ).

Quota attributed to a vessel.

Personal, tax-deferred retirement account for employed persons.

Rights that accrue directly to an individual (as opposed to derived rights).

A term used to describe the services (and goods) provided to individual households by NPISHs and general government.

Individual transactions basis data consist of data collected for each of the transactions engaged in by respondents

Individual transferable quota (ITQs) and individual transferable share quotas (ITSQs) explicitly limit the fish that a fleet can harvest from a fishery and assign tradable shares of the total catch to the participants in the fishery. ITQs have been found to have been effective at managing capacity in the fisheries to which they have been applied because they are self-adjusting with regard to capacity.

A management tool used to allocate a fixed share of the quota to individual fishermen or companies. ITSQs are usually granted as a form of long-term fishing rights and are tradable (transferable).

Indoor air pollution refers to chemical, biological and physical contamination of indoor air. It may result in adverse health effects. In developing countries, the main source of indoor air pollution is biomass smoke which contains suspended particulate matter (5PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (Ca), formaldehyde and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In industrialized countries, in addition to NO2, CO, and formaldehyde, radon, asbestos, mercury, human-made mineral fibres, volatile organic compounds, allergens, tobacco smoke, bacteria and viruses are the main contributors to indoor air pollution

Induced mutations are brought about by treating plant parts with chemical or physical mutagens and then selecting for desirable changes – in effect, to mimic spontaneous mutations and artificially broaden genetic diversity.

Mathematical induction is a method of mathematical proof typically used to establish that a given statement is true of all natural number.

World Bank loan made to assist adjustment of acountry's industrial and trade policy.

Is a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field. Clusters are considered to increase the productivity with which companies can compete, nationally and globally. In urban study, the term agglomeration is used. This term industry cluster, also known as a business cluster, competitive cluster, or Porterian cluster, was introduced and the term cluster popularized by Michael Porter in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990). The importance of economic geography, or more correctly geographical economics, was also brought to attention by Paul Krugman in Geography and Trade (1991). Cluster development has since become a focus for many government programs. The underlying concept, which economists have referred to as agglomeration economies, dates back to 1890, and the work of Alfred Marshall.