Statistical Terms Glossary

Integration is a statistical process whereby units or industries are combined to a larger unit under consideration of the flows of intermediate deliveries that may exist between the individual units.

Output of the new, integrated unit is net of intra-industry deliveries. Integration is a necessary step in the computation of sectoral output measures.

Values and related practices that maintain confidence in the eyes of users in the agency producing statistics and ultimately in the statistical product.

A state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which means that the person can have difficulties understanding, learning, and remembering new things, and in applying that learning to new situations. Also known as intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, learning difficulties, and formerly as mental retardation or mental handicap.

In ICANN, it is one of the seven constituencies of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) charged with the responsibility of advising the ICANN Board on policy issues relating to the management of the domain name system.

Intellectual property rights refers to the general term for the assignment of property rights through patents, copyrights and trademarks. These property rights allow the holder to exercise a monopoly on the use of the item for a specified period. By restricting imitation and duplication, monopoly power is conferred, but the social costs of monopoly power may be offset by the social benefits of higher levels of creative activity encouraged by the monopoly earnings.

Intended instruction time refers to the number of hours per year for which students receive instruction in both the compulsory and non-compulsory parts of the curriculum. For countries that have no formal policy on instruction time, the number of hours was estimated from survey data. Hours lost when schools are closed for festivities and celebrations, such as national holidays, are excluded. Intended instruction time does not include non-compulsory time outside the school day. It does not include homework, individual tutoring or private study taken before or after school.

Average deprivation score experienced by people in multidimensional poverty.

Refers to agricultural practices that produce high output per unit area, usually by intensive use of manure, agrochemicals, mechanization and so on.

Like extensive sampling this expression may mean two different things, either:(a) sampling in a particular area with a dense scatter of sampling points; or (b) sampling wherein information on a restricted range of topics is sought by probing on them very deeply with an intricate schedule of questions.

A type of SPS that combines high-density cultivation of fodder shrubs (4.000 to 40.000 plants per ha) with: (i) improved tropical grasses; and (ii) trees species or palms at densities of 100–600 trees per ha. These systems are managed under rotational grazing with occupation periods of 12 to 24 hours and 40 to 50 day resting periods, including ad libitum provision of water in each paddock.

Refers to death deliberately inflicted on a person by another person, including infanticide.

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Interaction (between species) refers to positive and negative associations between species that favour or inhibit mutual growth and evolution of populations. It may take the form of competition, predation, parasitism, commensalism or mutualism

A condition where information entry can be done by the user.

refers to checking and correcting data in dialogue mode using video terminals. It can be applied during data entry or on data that are already in machine-readable form. The questionnaire is immediately reviewed after adjustments are made. The results are shown on a video terminal and the data editor is prompted to adjust the data or override the error flag. This process continues until the questionnaire is considered acceptable by the automated review process. Then results of the next questionnaire's review by the auto review processor are presented.

Is the checking and correcting data in dialogue mode using video terminals. It can be applied during data entry or on data that are already in machine-readable form.

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. See “heads up data entry”.

In a computer system, the process of interacting directly with a program and/or data for immediately modifying, retrieving and/or displaying information. This is usually done on a computer screen.

Describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it. Interactive television represents a continuum from low interactivity (TV on/off, volume, changing channels) to moderate interactivity (simple movies on demand without player controls) and high interactivity in which, for example, an audience member affects the program being watched. The most obvious example of this would be any kind of real-time voting on the screen, in which audience votes create decisions that are reflected in how the show continues. A return path to the program provider is not necessary to have an interactive program experience. Once a movie is downloaded for example, controls may all be local. The link was needed to download the program, but texts and software which can be executed locally at the set-top box or IRD (Integrated Receiver Decoder) may occur automatically, once the viewer enters the channel.