Statistical Terms Glossary

Net rent is the total rent paid by a tenant to a landowner less the amounts paid by the landowner for land taxes or any maintenance expenses incurred solely as a consequence of owning the land (by convention, such taxes or expenses are treated as payable

The average number of daughters a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates and the mortality rates of a given period. It is expressed as number of daughters per woman.

Net residual flows refer to the quantity of residuals that is ultimately rejected into the environment (or into a landfill site) following any recycling/re-use or predisposal treatment.

A net resource transfer is a current account deficit excluding any net interest payments.

Net saving is net disposable income less final consumption expenditure

The sum of the sales of output of the establishments in the sector to other sectors of the economy. Gross sector output for the sector less the sales of the sector’s output within the sector.

Net value added is the value of output less the values of both intermediate consumption and consumption of fixed capital

The net (or written-down) value of a fixed asset is equal to the actual or estimated current purchaser’s price of a new asset of the same type less the cumulative value of the consumption of fixed capital accrued up to that point in time

Net worth is the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by an institutional unit or sector less the value of all its outstanding liabilities.

It is a measure of the wealth of a unit or sector at a point in time.

A pricing assessment or pricing formula based on the effective price to the producer or seller at a specific location or defined point. For example, liquefied natural gas (LNG) netback prices may be determined by the market natural gas price at market destinations less the cost of pipeline transportation, regasification, waterborne shipping and liquefaction. Crude oil may be priced on the market value of its refined products, or natural gas priced based on the natural gas market price less the cost for delivering from the defined point to the market location.

When identifying environmental expenditure, only expenditure undertaken for environmental protection purposes which leads to a net increase in cost (that is where spending exceeds any savings or income arising before the net cost was actually incurred) is included. When expenditure is recorded, this criterion only applies to operating expenditure.

See multilateral netting.

An interconnected system.

NNTP specifies a protocol for the distribution, inquiry, retrieval, and posting of news articles using a reliable stream-based transmission of news among the ARPA-Internet community. NNTP is designed so that news articles are stored in a central database allowing a subscriber to select only those items he wishes to read. Indexing, cross-referencing, and expiration of aged messages are also provided.

The ensemble of equipment, sites, switches, lines, circuits, software, and other transmission apparatus used to provide telecommunications services.

Measures the propensity for countries to exploit the opportunities offered by information and communications technology. It is published annually. The NRI seeks to better comprehend the impact of ICT on the competitiveness of nations. The NRI is a composite of three components: the environment for ICT offered by a given country or community, the readiness of the community’s key stakeholders (individuals, businesses, and governments) to use ICT, and finally the usage of ICT amongst these stakeholders.

The World Economic Forum together with INSEAD publishes the Global Information Technology Report, which makes use of the index.

The index was originally developed by the Information Technology Group, which worked at Harvard University's Center for International Development until 2002.

Measures the propensity for countries to exploit the opportunities offered by information and communications technology. It is published annually. The NRI seeks to better comprehend the impact of ICT on the competitiveness of nations. The NRI is a composite of three components: the environment for ICT offered by a given country or community, the readiness of the community’s key stakeholders (individuals, businesses, and governments) to use ICT, and finally the usage of ICT amongst these stakeholders.

Is an electronic device used to connect two or more computers or other electronic devices to each other, and usually to the Internet, by wire or radio signals. This allows several computers to communicate with each other and to the Internet at the same time. If wires are used, each computer is connected by its own wire to the router. Modern wired-only routers designed for the home or small business typically have one "input" port (to the Internet) and four "output" ports, one or more of which can be connected to other computers.

Is the physical interconnections of the elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network.

Structure  of  membership  in  an  individual’s  network  as  individuals,  their  number,  age,  gender  and  type  of relationship. It is used to denote the network of communication between the different workers and activists in the field of gender-based violence.

Hardware and software data communication systems. The OSI seven layer model attempts to provide a way of partitioning any computer network into independent modules from the lowest (physical) layer to the highest (application) layer. Many different specifications exist at each of these layers.

A neutral holding gain is the value of the holding gain that would accrue if the price of the asset changed in the same proportion as the general price level - i.e. merely kept pace with the general rate of inflation or deflation.

The neutral holding gain (by non-residents) is the value of the non-residents’ holding gain that would be required to maintain the purchasing power of the asset - expressed in national currency - over the time period involved, i.e. the holding gain needed needed to keep pace with the overall change in the general price level.

The percentage of children aged 3-6 years above primary school entrance age who have never been to school.

New and renewable energy sources are energy sources including solar energy, geothermal energy, wind power, hydropower, ocean energy (thermal gradient, wave power and tidal power), biomass, draught animal power, fuelwood, peat, oil shale and tar sands