Statistical Terms Glossary

Part of the land that is waterlogged because of irrigation. Waterlogging is the state of land in which the water table is located at or near the surface resulting in a decline of crop yields. Irrigation can contribute to the raising of the level of the aquifers. The non-saturated area of soils can become too small and the soils are over-saturated with water. If recharge to groundwater is greater than natural drainage, there is a need for additional drainage to avoid waterlogging.

This valuation principle is commonly applied to commercial and financial transactions between related companies. It says that transactions should be valued as if they had been carried out between unrelated parties, each acting in his own best interest.

Members of the armed forces are those personnel who are currently serving in the armed forces including auxiliary services, whether on a voluntary or compulsory basis, and who are not free to accept civilian employment.

Price between corporations under fully competitive conditions (the opposite of transfer price).

The Arrangement (sometimes known as the Consensus) is a gentleman’s agreement governing the provision of officially supported export credits with a credit period of two years or more. It is negotiated by an international body called the Participants to the Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits, which meets in Paris under the auspices, and with the administrative support, of the Secretariat of the OECD. The Participants are Australia, Canada, the European Union (including all the Member States), Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States. Additionally, there are three Observers: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.

A set of numeric values. Sometimes called a matrix, an array can be used to store numeric data of a repetitive nature.

Arrears are amounts of principal and/or interest due but not paid as of the reporting date

The arrival of any merchant ship making a port call in the territory of the reporting country.

Any laden or unladen seagoing vessel which entered a port in the territory of the country.

A deep-drilled excavation through which water flows upward because of natural underground pressure.

Road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer.

Materials placed on the sea flood that serve as habitat for marine organisms.

Are an environment management technique consisting of man made ponds and swamps which use natural processes to purify polluted water.

The artisanal extraction regime (AER) is a new regulatory system for Chilean fisheries that gives collective fishing permits to artisanal fishers.

The different countries apply diverse criteria in their attempt to characterize artisanal fisheries, a task in which they refer back to several notions, namely, boat size, fishing traditions, type of "métiers", socio-economic environment, etc. In these conditions, some "métiers" that are a part of artisanal fisheries in one country are however excluded in another.

Description: An ACE is a string of characters resulting from a particular Algorithm for transforming multilingual character information into an ASCII-based alphanumeric form acceptable by the existing DNS. This means that an ACE encoded string must conform to the LDH restrictions for strings.

The ASEAN Free Trade Area is a multilateral agreement on trade, including agricultural trade, between Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN)Member countries, phasing out tariffs and revising other trade rules between the nine countries over the 15-year period of implementation of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme. The agreement was signed in January 1992.

The lack of a sexual attraction or desire for other people.

An organisation for ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) registries in Asia Pacific region. APTLD was originally established in 1998, and in 2003 legally established in Malaysia