Statistical Terms Glossary

Non-life insurance claims are the amounts payable in settlement of damages that result from an event covered by a non-life insurance policy during the current accounting period.

Non-life insurance premiums comprise both the actual premiums payable by policyholders to obtain insurance cover during the accounting period (premiums earned) and the premium supplements payable out of the property income attributed to insurance policyholders, but excluding social contributions.

A legal or social entity created for the purpose of producing non-market goods and services, but whose status does not permit them to be a source of income, profit, or other financial gain for the units that establish, control, and mainly finance them.

Non-market output consists of goods and individual or collective services produced by non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) or government that are supplied free, or at prices that are not economically significant, to other institutional units or the community as a whole. A price is said to be not economically significant when it has little or no influence on how much the producer is prepared to supply and is expected to have only a marginal influence on the quantities demanded.

Other non-market output consists of goods and individual or collective services produced by non- profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) or government that are supplied free, or at prices that are not economically significant, to other institutional units or the community as a whole.

Such output is one of three broad categories of output in the SNA, with the others being market output and output produced for own final use.

Non-market producers are producers that provide most of their output to others free or at prices which are not economically significant.

Non-market services cover those services provided to the community as a whole free of charge, or to individual consumers either free of charge or at a fee which is well below 50 per cent of production costs.

Transactions covering goods or services that their producers supply to others free or at prices that are not economically significant.

Non-metallic mineral reserves consist of stone quarries and clay and sand pits; chemical and fertiliser mineral deposits; salt deposits; deposits of quartz, gypsum, natural gem stones, asphalt and bitumen, peat and other non-metallic minerals other than coal and petroleum.

Are benefits that are not, or cannot be, directly measured in terms of monetary units. These include the satisfaction realised from enjoying a certain way of life or style of work, such as fishing in a rural coastal community.

Non-monetary gold covers exports and imports of all gold not held as reserve assets (monetary gold) by the authorities. Non-monetary gold is treated as any other commodity and, when feasible, is subdivided into gold held as a store of value and other (industrial) gold

Non-monetary transactions are transactions that are not initially stated in units of currency; barter is an obvious example

“Non-native” students are those students who reported in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that they were born outside the country of assessment and whose parents were also born in another country.

The term is used to describe activities that, for one reason or another, are not captured in regular statistical enquiries. The reason may be that the activity is informal and thus escapes the attention of surveys geared to formal activities, the producer may be anxious to conceal a legal activity, or it may be that the activity is illegal.

The groups of activities most likely to be non-observed are those that are underground, illegal, informal sector, or undertaken by households for their own final use. Activities may also be missed because of deficiencies in the basic statistical data collection programme.

These are a type of preferred shares in which the payment of a “dividend” (usually at a fixed rate) is calculated according to a predetermined formula and not determined by the earnings of the issuer. In other words, the investor does not participate in the distribution of profits to equity investors (if any), nor share in any surplus on dissolution of the issuer.

Assets which have no financial return.

A debt which has no financial return (i.e. no interest is paid on it).

Loan where payment of interest has been delayed for more than 90 days.

Non-point source of pollution are pollution sources that are diffused and without a single point of origin or not introduced into a receiving stream from a specific outlet.
The pollutants are generally carried off the land by storm water run- off. The commonly used categories for non—point sources are agriculture, forestry, urban areas, mining, construction, dams and channels, land disposal and saltwater intrusion

Non-price predation is a form of strategic behaviour that involves raising rivals' costs. It is potentially less costly and hence more profitable than predatory pricing. Typical methods include using government or legal processes to disadvantage a competitor. A firm may be able to force competitors to incur significant litigation or administrative costs, at little cost to itself.

A sample in which the selection of units is based on factors other than random chance, e.g. convenience, prior experience or the judgment of a researcher.

Non-produced assets are non-financial assets that come into existence other than through processes of production; they include both tangible assets and intangible assets and also include costs of ownership transfer on and major improvements to these assets.

Most NPIs are separately identified institutional units. That is, they are capable in their own right of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities. It follows that a complete set of accounts for the unit, including a balance sheet of assets and liabilities, exists or could be constructed if required. NPIs are categorized as follows: a. those providing services to corporations whose output is sold to the corporations concerned and treated as intermediate consumption; b. those that are controlled by government and provide individual or collective services on a non-market basis; c. those providing goods and services to households, divided between: those that provide goods and services to individual households at economically significant prices; those providing services to individual households free or at prices that are not economically significant and those that provide collective services free or at prices that are not economically significant.