Statistical Terms Glossary

See: Exchange rate

Within a family group is the person who is considered by immigration authorities to be the head of the family and upon whose admission depends that of the other members of the family.

When a unit carries out a transaction on behalf of another unit, the transaction is recorded exclusively in the accounts of the principal party, although some service output may be recognised with the intermediary; for example, purchases a commercial agent makes under the orders of, and at the expense of, another party are directly attributed to the latter while the accounts of the agent only show the fee charged to the principal for intermediation services rendered.

Comprises a list of national railway enterprises that for the purposes of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) Glossary are considered as principal enterprises.

The repayment schedule of principal by due date and instalment amount.

Additionality means that the funds of the European Community should not replace, but be an addition to national regional policy funds.

The starting point for prior breakdown methods used in the compilation of construction price indices is a list of carefully specified factors or components, from which the total input or output costs of a building or construction project are built up. There are a range of prior breakdown methods. These comprise: standard factors; and the component cost method.

A class of preferred stock that has senior rights over other classes of preferred stock.

"Priority species" is a WWF term, and is solely for the purposes of planning and simple communication. For WWF, a "priority species" may be either a flagship or a keystone species and is chosen to represent an ecoregion or region. A "priority species" is reflective of a key threat across that ecoregion - such that conservation of the species will contribute significantly to a broader threat mitigation outcome. It is often crucial to the economic and/or spiritual wellbeing of peoples within that ecoregion.

Prison population is the population of incarcerated people, awaiting trial or adjudication, and/or imprisoned offenders, given as of one day which may be considered typical for the whole year. All prisoners, except those in youth/juvenile detention centres.

Prisons refer to all penal and correctional institutions wherein offenders and alleged offenders are deprived of their liberty. Youth/juvenile detention centres are excluded.

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A motor vehicle, other than motorcycle intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than 9 persons (including the driver), and described in its license as a private vehicle, and does not include motorcycles.

See: Private pay-through security

Creditors that are neither governments nor public sector agencies. These include private bondholders, private banks, other private financial institutions, and manufacturers, exporters, and other suppliers of goods that have a financial claim.

Private debt is debt from a loan by a private entity, such as a bank or an exporter. It may be guaranteed by the official sector. If it is rescheduled by the official sector it is reclassified as other official flow (OOF) debt

An education institution is classified as private if it is controlled and managed by a non- governmental organisation (e.g. a Church, Trade Union or business enterprise), or if its Governing Board consists mostly of members not selected by a public agency

Private household, firm or business enterprise, or non-profit making organization (including religious organizations) which, although their principal activity is non-educational, might finance activities in the domain of education.

Refers to privately funded part of expenditure on prevention and public health. It includes privately funded occupational health care; prevention and public health services provided by charities, other non-Governmental organisations, voluntary organisations.

Consist of flows at market terms financed out of private sector resources (i.e. changes in holdings of private long term assets held by residents of the reporting country) and private grants (i.e. grants by non government organisations, net of subsidies received from the official sector).

Private funded social insurance benefits are social insurance benefits payable to households by insurance enterprises or other institutional units administering private funded social insurance schemes

Are beds not owned by central or local Government or social security establishments.

The private internal rate of return is equal to the discount rate that equalises the real costs of education during the period of study to the real gains from education thereafter. In its most comprehensive form, the costs equal tuition fees, foregone earnings net of taxes adjusted for the probability of being in employment minus the resources made available to students in the form of grants and loans.

Comprises private gross capital formation in health care provider industries (excluding retail sale of medical goods.) It excludes capital transfers received from the public sector.

The service of providing permanent transmission connection between two customer premises for the exclusive use by a customer. This service may be provided over facilities owned or operated by an operator or over transmission capacity sold or leased by a non-facilities-based telecommunications provider, or reseller, and may use terrestrial or satellite facilities. It generally does not involve central office switching operations.
Also called a private leased line.

A service that provides for the provision of a permanent transport connection between two customer headquarters that is placed exclusively at the customer's service. This service may be provided through facilities owned or operated by the operator, or through a transmission capacity sold or leased by an unofficial telecommunications service provider or any reseller, and it may also use ground or satellite installations. It does not usually include central switching operations. It is also called a private leased line.

Paper placed with a limited group of investors and not advertised).