Statistical Terms Glossary

Non-autonomous pension funds schemes in which employers maintain special reserves which are segregated from their other reserves even though such funds do not constitute separate institutional units from the employers. These are referred to as non-autonomy.

A financial institution offering banking services but which is not officially recognized as a bank. In France, it is defined as a financial institution which does not generate money but merely lends money that it receives in deposits.

Non-bank trade-related credits comprise official export credits, which by their nature are long- term, and officially guaranteed or insured suppliers' credits, which are credits extended by exporters to importers abroad. They also include arrears and officially rescheduled amounts on officially guaranteed or insured financial credits since these are taken over by export credit agencies from the original bank creditors. Guaranteed financial credits made by banking institutions that do not report to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) are also included here. These data only cover trade credits which have been guaranteed or insured by the official sector in the creditor country. They include credits extended to both the public and private sector in the borrowing country

Short-term non-bank trade-related credits comprise official and officially guaranteed or insured suppliers' credits. These are credits extended by exporters to importers abroad that have a remaining maturity of one year.

Bond that cannot be recalled or redeemed prior to maturity.

Period during which a borrower may not give notice to redeem bonds, in Eurobond market.

Customs or fire-service vessels, for example.

The non-compulsory curriculum is that which is defined entirely at the school level or eventually at the programme level if various programme types exist.

Online distribution of sexually graphic photographs or videos without the consent of the individual in the images.

Non-consensual sexting involves the sending of explicit messages or photos without the recipient’s consent.

The debt that is wholly or partly excluded from rescheduling. It has to be repaid on the terms on which it was originally borrowed, unless creditors agree otherwise.

A country that has not signed and is not obligated to aide by the terms of an international fishing agreement.

Entitlement to a benefit is not based on the previous payment of contributions but on other criteria. Non-contributory benefits are usually financed out of general taxation.

A pension scheme where the members do not have to pay into the scheme.

It refers to water that can be available for use without increasing the load on renewable freshwater resources. 

Service aspects that are not necessarily required by a firm in fulfilling its value proposition to its customers, such as installation, operation, or maintenance of a system, which can be outsourced to third parties.

Non-cultivated biological resources consist of animals and plants that yield both once-only and repeat products over which ownership rights are enforced but for which natural growth and/or regeneration is not under the direct control, responsibility and management of institutional units.