Statistical Terms Glossary

Proxy measure for consumption of a product or material, defined as production plus imports minus exports of the product or material.

Apparent labour productivity is defined as value added per person employed.

The standard procedure for a borrower to apply to withdraw funds from an IBRD Loan Account to make a payment to a third party for amounts due.

The standard procedure for a borrower to apply to withdraw funds from an IBRD Loan Account to reimburse funds already paid.

Service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet.

An Interface between an application and a particular feature, function or resource of a platform.

Production programs run on a mid-sized computer that handle all application operations between browser-based computers and an organisation's back-end business applications or databases. The application server works as a translator, allowing, for example, a customer with a browser to search an online retailer's database for pricing information

A service (usually a business) that provides remote access to an application program across a network protocol, typically HTTP. A common example is a web site that other web sites use for accepting payment by credit card as part of their online ordering systems

The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are a class of economic models that use actual economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policy, technology or other external factors.

Are all employees who do not participate fully in the production process of the unit because they are working under an apprentice's contract or because the fact that they are undertaking vocational training impinges significantly on their productivity.

Apprenticeship support and related forms of general youth training covers many forms of training and work practice in enterprises for young people. Access is not restricted to persons with employment problems.

(i) Care that meets the health needs of the entire population; (ii) care that is effective and based on the best available scientific evidence; (iii) interventions that are safe and that do not cause any harm or suffering; and priorities for the allocation and organization of resources that are based on equity and economic efficiency.

Assistive technology that meets people’s needs, uses local skills, tools, and materials, and is simple, effective, affordable, and acceptable to its users.

Appropriation accounts contain detailed sources of income and expenditures, saving and net lending for key economic sectors such as general government, businesses and households.

A method for estimating the resource rent using the observed receipts of the owner of the resource; may be applied for any resource: subsoil, land, forests, fish, water, etc.

Refers to an authority under a law given by the legislature to the executive to spend public funds for a specified purpose.

Collection of structural data from all aquacultural production units.

Economic unit of aquacultural production under single management comprising all aquaculture facilities without regard to title, legal form or size .

Farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and plants, as opposed to other forms of aquatic exploitation such as capture fisheries.

Aquaculture insurance is one of the tools used in aquaculture risk management, but there is considerable ignorance within the aquaculture industry about its availability, the process of obtaining insurance cover, especially on aquaculture stock mortality, and the constraints to insurers providing its services.