Statistical Terms Glossary

An export credit that carries a guarantee, issued by an export credit agency, protecting the creditor against political, commercial, or transfer risks in the debtor country that may prevent the remittance of debt-service payments.

An item of FAO property without form or substance such as software, copyrights, trademarks or logos.

Intangible fixed assets are non-financial produced fixed assets that mainly consist of mineral exploration, computer software, entertainment, literary or artistic originals intended to be used for more than one year.

Intangible non-produced assets are assets that entitle their owners to engage in certain specific activities or to produce certain specific goods or services and to exclude other institutional units from doing so except with the permission of the owner (e.g. patented entities or purchased goodwill).

Providing stability to a social group; the process of making someone equal or fitting to the rest of society.

a subset of environmental planning which approaches sustainable resource management from a catchment perspective recognizing the central role of water as a critical resource and of catchments as a source of water. Integrated catchment management takes into account the relationships within catchment ecosystems and their role in supporting flora and fauna, the soils, the biosphere and the atmosphere, providing services to human societies, and regulating the human environment.

Integrated coastal area management is a dynamic process by which actions are taken for the use, development and protection of coastal resources and areas to achieve national goals established in cooperation with user groups and regional and local authorities.; A dynamic, multidisciplinary and iterative process to promote sustainable management of coastal zones.

Railway transport operator also being an infrastructure manager.

A class of statistical data in which the values for short unit intervals can be added together to give a series of values relating to longer intervals; for example, daily rainfall can be integrated into a new series of weekly, monthly or annual rainfall figures each of which will possess a longer time base than the previous series.

Integrated economic accounts, in the form of T- account, provide an overview of structural elements of the System of National Accounts by depicting various facets of economic phenomena (e.g., production, income, consumption, accumulation, and wealth) in three types of accounts: current account, accumulation accounts, and balance sheets.

The integrated economic accounts comprise the full set of accounts of institutional sectors and the rest of the world, together with the accounts for transactions (and other flows) and the accounts for assets and liabilities

Also called cleaner technologies. These are new or modified production facilities designed so that environmental protection is an integral part of the production process, reducing or eliminating emissions and discharges and thus the need for end-of-pipe equipment.

Integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) is the practice which combines, in appropriate proportions, the cultivation of fed aquaculture species (e.g. finfish, shrimps) with aquaculture species that extract their inorganic (e.g. seaweeds) and organic food (e.g. suspension feeders such as bivalves and deposit feeders such as sea cucumbers) from the surroundings. Such arrangement creates a balanced ecosystem management approach to aquaculture for environmental sustainability (biomitigation), economic stability (product diversification and risk reduction) and societal acceptability (better management practices).

Is an approach to the management and control of agricultural pests which relies on site- and condition-specific information to manage pest populations below a level that causes economic injury and that minimizes risks to humans and the natural environment. Although any among a wide range of pest control agents may be used (including chemical sprays), IPM generally stresses the use of alternatives, such as crop rotations, mechanical cultivation, and biological agents, where such methods are deemed to be effective.

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a strategy relying on natural mortality factors, such as natural enemies, weather and crop management, that seeks to promote tactics that disrupt these factors as little as possible while enhancing their effectiveness

Is a set of communications standards enabling traditional telephone lines to carry voice, digital network services, and video. Prior to ISDN, the phone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of the ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system. There are several kinds of access interfaces to ISDN defined as basic rate interface (BRI), primary rate interface (PRI) and broadband ISDN (B-ISDN).

A set of digital telecommunications network standards.

Survey that cover a variety of different subjects in the course of a single survey cycle.

The concept of integrated survey processing is that all parts of the survey process be integrated in a coherent manner, the results of one part of the process automatically giving information to the next part of the process.