Statistical Terms Glossary

Water specified under Iraqi laws and international treaties and agreements that Iraq has ratified.

INTERLINK is the OECD’s world econometric model

An interlocking directorate occurs when the same person sits on the board of directors of two or more companies. There is a danger that an interlock between competing firms (direct interlocks) may be used to co-ordinate behaviour and reduce inter-firm rivalry. Direct interlocks are illegal in the U.S. under the Clayton Act, but other countries are more lenient. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that the majority of interlocking directorates are between financial and non-financial companies. Thus, representatives of banks commonly sit on the boards of competing firms. These indirect interlocks are typically not a factor in competition policy..

Portion of cartilaginous tissue of the vertebral centra comprised between the arms of the corpus calcareum.

Intermediate barriers and causes of gender inequality , also commonly referred to as ‘gender bottlenecks’, determine options and opportunities available to persons according to their gender. These might include girls’ and women’s greater concerns for safety and mobility when using washrooms or collecting water, or heavier burdens and responsibilities in the household.

A basket derived as the average of the baskets of two time periods, usually the base and current periods. The average can be arithmetic as in the Marshall Edgeworth price index or geometric as in the Walsh price index.

Borrowing from financial intermediaries.

Intermediate consumption consists of the value of the goods and services consumed as inputs by a process of production, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is recorded as consumption of fixed capital; the goods or services may be either transformed or used up by the production process.

Goods and services, other than fixed assets, used as inputs into the production process of an establishment that are produced elsewhere in the economy or are imported. They may be either transformed or used up by the production process. Land, labour, and capital are primary inputs and are not included among intermediate inputs.

Intermediate products are goods and services consumed as inputs by a process of production, excluding fixed assets.

The official confirmation, usually in the form of a document, certifying the successful completion of a stage of an education programme.

The intermediate use quadrant (of the use table) shows intermediate consumption at purchasers’ prices by industries in the columns and by products in the rows.

Process whereby a financial institution interposes its names and trustworthiness between a lender and a borrower. For example, instead of buying an issue directly from a corporation, an investor may deposit funds with a bank which, in turn, invests in the issue.

A freight terminal within the airport with connections to modes of transport other than road on its landside.

Multimodal transport of goods, in one and the same intermodal transport unit by successive modes of transport without handling of the goods when changing modes.
Note: The intermodal transport unit can be a container, swap body or a loaded vehicle travelling on another vehicle.

Place equipped for the trans-shipment and storage of intermodal transport units (ITUs) between transport modes, one of which is rail.

Movement of goods (in one and the same loading unit or a vehicle) by successive modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves when changing modes.

A structure equipped for the trans-shipment and storage of intermodal transport units (ITUs) between at least two transport modes or between two different rail systems, and for temporary storage of freight, such as ports, inland ports, airports and rail-road terminals.

Container, swap body or semi-trailer/goods road motor vehicle suitable for intermodal transport.

Refers to giving full transparency to any necessary pre-release access within government, as deemed appropriate by the government.

An independent appraisal function established within an organisation.

Internal fertilisation with females carrying embryos and/or young.

This term pertains to relations among the variables for a given sample unit and is the reason for the edits in most survey procedures.

Is the organisation, policies and procedures used to help ensure that government programmes achieve their intended results; that the resources used to deliver these programmes are consistent with the stated aims and objectives of the organisations concerned; that programmes are protected from waste, fraud and mismanagement; and that reliable and timely information is obtained, maintained, reported and used for decision making.

A change in the population distribution from the character of the scattered small groups that depend on different environmental diversities to industrial or agricultural societies, where settlement is intensifying, in relative terms. The increase in the urban population is one of the main recent phenomena of the internal explosion of the population.

The process of movement within an administrative region in a country (for example a district or governorate) to another administrative region for the purpose of residence.