Statistical Terms Glossary

Includes businesses involved in the development, maintenance and publication of computer software using any business model. The industry also includes software services, such as training, documentation, and consulting.

Protection technique that diminishes the risk of recognition of information about individuals or enterprises by suppressing individual scores on identifying variables.

Is an enterprise, or part of an enterprise, which engages in productive activity at or from one location.

Enterprises often engage in productive activity at more than one location, and for some purposes it may be useful to partition them accordingly. Thus, a local unit is defined as an enterprise or a part of an enterprise (for example, a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) which engages in productive activity at or from one location. The definition has only one dimension, in that it does not refer to the kind of activity that is carried out.

Requirement that the investor purchase a certain amount of local materials for incorporation in the investor’s product.

Is a government policy that requires manufacturers of a particular product (e.g. cigarettes or fruit juice) to obtain domestically a specified minimum percentage of their basic agricultural input (e.g. tobacco or fruit from domestic producers).

For census purposes, a locality is defined as a distinct population cluster (also designated as inhabited place, populated centre, settlement and so forth) in which the inhabitants live in neighbouring sets of living quarters and that has a name or a locally recognised status.

For census purposes, a locality should be defined as a distinct population cluster (also designated as inhabited place, populated centre, settlement and so forth) in which the inhabit

A system where the water is distributed under low pressure through a piped network, in a pre-determined pattern, and applied as a small discharge to each plant or adjacent to it. There are three main categories: drip irrigation (where drip emitters are used to apply water slowly to the soil surface), spray or micro-sprinkler irrigation (where water is sprayed to the soil near individual plants or trees) and bubbler irrigation (where a small stream is applied to flood small basins or the soil adjacent to individual trees).; Irrigation systems which wet, in particular, the area of soil at the base of the plant. Umbrella term for other irrigation systems such as: trickle, drip, drop, daily flow, micro.

Protected areas that are largely or wholly managed by coastal communities and/or land-owning groups, with the support of government and partner representatives.

The place taken into account is the place at which the goods were first pumped-in or first compressed into a pipeline.

An enclosure in an inland waterway with gates at each end to enable the water level to be raised or lowered to allow vessels to pass through. Lift locks are included.

Rate at which drop lock clause becomes operative.

With interest rates, refers to a fixed-interest loan with a long maturity so that the borrower is obliged to pay the fixed rate over a long period though other market rates may have fallen.

Market where bid and offer prices are exactly the same.

Is a total or partial temporary closure of one or more places of employment, or the hindering of the normal work activities of employees, by one or more employers with a view to enforcing or resisting demands or expressing grievances, or supporting other employers in their demands or grievances.

Railway vehicle equipped with prime mover and motor or with motor only used for hauling railway vehicles.

A price index defined as the weighted geometric average of the current to base period price relatives using the value shares of the base period as weights.

A price index defined as the weighted geometric average of the current to base period price relatives using the value shares of the current period as weights.

A record of the fishing activity registered systematically by the fisher, including catch and its species composition, the corresponding effort, and location. In many fisheries completion of logbooks is a compulsory requirement of a fishing licence.

Is the process of harvesting trees, sawing them into appropriate lengths and transporting them to a sawmill.