Statistical Terms Glossary

Migration within countries or across borders due to marriage.

Is the rank order (i.e. first, second, third, etc) of the legal marriage being contracted or of the legal marriage being dissolved.

The number of marriages per 1,000 population whom were previously married (widowed and divorced) in a given year in a certain number is also calculated for the man.

An area of soft, wet, low-lying land, characterized by grassy vegetation and often forming a transition zone between water and land.; A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.

A price index defined as the weighted arithmetic average of the current to base period price relatives which uses the quantities of an intermediate basket as weights. The quantities of the intermediate basket are arithmetic averages of the quantities of the base and current periods. It is a symmetric index and a pseudo-superlative index.

Site especially equipped with several tracks or other equipment for railway vehicle marshalling (switching) operations.

These are dynamic socio-cultural categories used in everyday language that refer to certain behaviours and practices recognized within a culture as being “feminine” or “masculine,” regardless of which biological sex expresses them. These concepts are learned and do not describe sexual orientation or biological essence. They change with culture, religion, class, over time and with individuals and other factors. The values placed on femininities and masculinities vary with culture also. Any person may engage in forms of femininity and masculinity. As an example, a man can engage in what are often stereotyped as “feminine” activities, such as caring for a sick parent or staying home to raise children.

Masculinities are those behaviors, languages and practices, existing in specific cultural and organizational locations, which are commonly associated with males and thus culturally defined as not feminine (Whitehead & Barrett, 2001). It indicates qualities and characteristics that a male should have to be a "man".-Such generalizations are based on beliefs rather than observations or proofs. Masculine qualities and characteristics change from a place to another and by time, according to the age of the male, and thus there are many definitions of what a man is globally.

A specific supply and use table where different physical flows for products and/or residuals are expressed in a common specific unit; for example timber, forests products and wood waste converted into ‘dry-matter tonnes of wood’ .

Private university in Cambridge, famous for its scientific and technological training and research. Founded in 1861, MIT has schools of architecture and planning, engineering, humanities and social sciences, management (the Sloan School), and science and a college of health sciences and technology. Though it is best known for its programs in engineering and the physical sciences, other areas such as economics, political science, urban studies, linguistics, and philosophy are also strong. Among its facilities are a nuclear reactor, a computation centre, geophysical and astrophysical observatories, a linear accelerator, a space research centre, supersonic wind tunnels, an artificial-intelligence laboratory, a centre for cognitive science, and an international-studies centre.

See: Frozen frame

Bond issued on the Spanish market, denominated in currencies other than the peseta.

Funding needed by the IFC to commit a loan. It must match the loan in terms of amount and maturity.

A type of cross-currency interest hedge where the proceeds of a short-term instrument program are swapped for comparable maturities in other currencies.

This method in the compilation of construction price indices involves the specification of a sample of representative construction projects (or models), the matching of these “model” projects against actual projects carried out by contractors in a specified period, the collection of prices for the matched projects for each period, and the weighting together of price movements for each project.

Selling U.S. Treasury bills for cash and at the same time purchasing the same issue of bills for redelivery a day or more later.

In the hot deck imputation procedure, the act of matching a donor record to a recipient (candidate) record.

Those variables used to find a match between a recipient (candidate) record and a donor record.

Refers to the inability for individuals or households to afford those consumption goods and activities that are typical in a society at a given point in time, irrespective of people’s preferences with respect to these items.

The criteria by which Bank loans may be made and, in particular, the criteria by which Bank loans are deemed to have a material effect on the prospects of investment in the recipient country. These
criteria are basically that they should be used to finance specific projects in the broad sense of this term, which includes well-defined productive purposes but has been extended to include lending which serves the Bank's broad objective of facilitating investment for reconstruction or development, such as structural/sectoral adjustment lending.

Materials and energy balances are accounting tables that provide information on the material input into an economy delivered by the natural environment, the transformation and use of that input in economic processes (extraction, conversion, manufacturing, consumption) and its return to the natural environment as residuals (wastes).
The accounting concepts involved are founded on the first law of thermodynamics, which states that matter (mass/energy) is neither created nor destroyed by any physical process

See Inventories of materials and supplies

The death of woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental causes.