Statistical Terms Glossary

Pelagic: Of or pertaining to the open or high sea, as distinguished from the shallow water near the coast, living on or near the surface of the open sea or ocean.

A Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for a basic heading or an aggregate between two countries, country B and country A, where the reference country is country A and the weights are those of country A.

A Laspeyres volume index is a weighted arithmetic average of quantity relatives using the values of the earlier period as weights.

Last-in-first-out (LIFO) is an inventory valuation method based on the assumption that the first good withdrawn from inventory is the last one which entered.

Is death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception at 28 weeks or more of gestation.

The additional interest that may be levied on obligations overdue beyond a specified time; in some Paris Club agreements, late interest charges have been specifically excluded from the debt consolidation.

See Deferred retirement, Postponed retirement

The Caribbean is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts.

A small naval wood boat used for transferring small quantities shipments like fruits and vegetables.

The process of concealing the illegal origin of fish by turning the proceeds and records of illegal transactions into legitimate business records and assets, often by sourcing products from IUU seafood operators or businesses.

Law mandates equal remuneration for females and males for work of equal value is whether there is a law that obligates employers to pay equal remuneration to male and female employees who do work of equal value. "Remuneration” refers to the ordinary, basic or minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments payable directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind, by the employer to the worker and arising out of the worker’s employment. “Work of equal value” refers not only to the same or similar jobs but also to different jobs of the same value.

Layer 2 switching is hardware based, which means it uses the media access control address (MAC address) from the host's network interface cards (NICs) to decide where to forward frames. Switches use application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to build and maintain filter tables (also known as MAC address tables). One way to think of a layer 2 switch is as a multiport bridge.

The Transport Layer is a group of methods and protocols within a layered architecture of network components within which it is responsible for encapsulating application data blocks into data units (datagrams, segments) suitable for transfer to the network infrastructure for transmission to the destination host, or managing the reverse transaction by abstracting network datagrams and delivering their payload to an application.

Mismatching maturities in order to improve liquidity. The French sensibly used the English word.

Excess water applied during irrigation, where necessary, in order to leach out high salt content in the root zone