Statistical Terms Glossary

See: Institutional sector

Non-profit institutions (NPIs) are legal or social entities created for the purpose of producing goods and services whose status does not permit them to be a source of income, profit or other financial gain for the units that establish, control or finance

Non-profit institutions controlled and mainly financed by government are properly constituted legal entities which exist separately from government but which are financed mainly by government and over which government exercises control

Non-profit institutions (NPIs) engaged in market production consist of those NPIs which charge fees determined by their costs of production and which are sufficiently high to have a significant influence on the demand for their services, but any surpluses such institutions make must be retained within those institutions as their status as “Non-profit institutions (NPIs)” prevents them from distributing them to others.

Non-profit institutions engaged in non-market production are NPIs that are incapable of providing financial gain to the units which control or manage them, and which must rely principally on funds other than receipts from sales to cover their costs of production or other activities.

Non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) consist of NPIs which are not predominantly financed and controlled by government and which provide goods or services to households free or at prices that are not economically significant.

Any network used to communicate within an organization (as distinct from providing service to the public) or to supply such communications to organizations, based on a configuration of own or leased facilities. The term includes networks used by private companies, state enterprises, or government entities.

Abstraction of water direct from water bodies for own final uses and not obtained from public water supply.

A loan where the lenders look solely to the cash flow generated by the project being financed for repayment. There is no recourse to the sponsor of the project, so that the lenders assume all the commercial and political risks of the project.

The non-recourse loan is the major instrument used by the Commodity Credit Corporation to support the price of programme crops. The loan is “non-recourse” because the Government has no option but to accept forfeiture of the crop in full satisfaction of the loan obligation, even when the market price of the commodity is below the loan rate.

Sales of participation in a company where the sale is on a "non-recourse" basis, i.e. the buyer has norecourse against the seller if the project fails to generate money.

See non-maturing bond.

Non—renewable natural resources are exhaustible natural resources such as mineral resources that cannot be regenerated after exploitation

Groundwater bodies (deep aquifers) that have a negligible rate of recharge on the human time-scale and thus can be considered as non-renewable. While renewable water resources are expressed in flows, non-renewable water resources have to be expressed in quantity (stock). Runoff from glaciers where the mass balance is negative is considered non-renewable.

Nonrepayable margins reduce a financial liability created under a financial derivative contract; the entity that pays a nonrepayable margin no longer retains ownership of the margin nor has the right to the risks and rewards of ownership, such as the receipt of income or exposure to holding gains and losses.

A unit is non-resident if its centre of economic interest is not in the economic territory of a country

Non-residential buildings consists of buildings other than dwellings, including fixtures, facilities and equipment that are integral parts of the structures and costs of site clearance and preparation. Historic monuments identified primarily as buildings are also included. Examples include warehouse and industrial buildings, commercial buildings, buildings for public entertainment, hotels, restaurants, educational buildings, health buildings, etc.

A building is regarded as a non-residential building when the minor part of the building (i.e. less than half of its gross floor area) is used for dwelling purposes.
- industrial buildings;
- commercial buildings;
- educational buildings;
- health buildings;
- other buildings

An incomplete questionnaire or a missing questionnaire.

Non-response errors occur when the survey fails to get a response to one, or possibly all, of the questions. Non-response causes both an increase in variance, due to the decrease in the effective sample size and/or due to the use of imputation, and may cause bias if the non-respondents and respondents differ with respect to the characteristic of interest

Passengers other than revenue passengers.