Statistical Terms Glossary

As life expectancy rises and the world’s population ages, more and more workers in all regions are caring for older persons or persons with disabilities or relatives. Governments have come to realize that the growing number of older persons requiring care represents a potentially huge financial burden on the State. The management of older persons and its division between the public and private spheres is the subject of an evolving debate.

An oligopoly is a market characterized by a small number of firms who realize they are interdependent in their pricing and output policies. The number of firms is small enough to give each firm some market power.

See Monopsony

Traffic on a commercial air service identified by a unique flight number subdivided by airport pairs in accordance with the points of embarkation and disembarkation on that flight.

Equivalent to relending in connection with new money loans. The funds are recorded as a deposit in the central bank but the foreign bank and the contractual borrower (usually the Central Bank) agree that the loan proceeds will be made available to a third party within the country of the borrower.

Method used for measuring discards in commercial fishing based on multilevel modelling of measurements.

Main trace ability requirements seem to evolve to the general scheme of record-keeping known as “one step forward and one step back” as the primary means of establishing trace ability for food safety and other food control.

A model of depreciation, in which the durable delivers the same services for each vintage: a chair is a chair, no matter what its age (until it falls to pieces and is scrapped). Also known as the light bulb model of depreciation.

Is a term used by many local authorities in the United Kingdom to describe the facility they offer for their residents to discuss and arrange services with officers of the authority.

The local loop service connected to the originating party provided by network A to network B where network B does not also provide reciprocal services to network A. For example, the origination service provided by a LEG to originate long-distance calls carried by an IXC in the US, or call origination provided by a ILEC to an ISP.

The local loop service connected to the receiving party provided by network A to network B where network B does not also provide reciprocal services to network A. For example, the termination service provided by a LEG to terminate long-distance carried by an IXC in the US, or possibly the termination service provided by a paging company for a call from an ILEC to a paging company.

An institutional unit within an economy might borrow funds from a nonresident(s) and then on-lend the funds to a second institutional unit within the economy. In such instances, the first institutional unit—that is, the institutional unit that borrowed from the nonresident(s)—should record an external debt liability, with any subsequent on-lending classified as a domestic claim/liability.

State of a mobile user or terminal that has "logged on", i.e. is currently registered at a gatekeeper, as opposed to absent or "logged off".