Statistical Terms Glossary

The process whereby the activities undertaken by ministries and agencies are assessed against a set of objectives or criteria. This may include an assessment of programme outcomes. Programme evaluations may be conducted on a regular basis. They may be internal evaluations, or may be carried out by a third party such as the Ministry of Finance, the supreme audit institution (SAI), or an external consultant.

The OECD's Programm for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a collaborative effort among the Member countries of the OECD to measure how well young adults, at age 15 and therefore approaching the end of compulsory schooling, are prepared to meet the challenges of today's knowledge societies. The assessment is forward looking, focusing on young people's ability to use their knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges, rather than the extent to which they have mastered a specific school curriculum. PISA is the most comprehensive and international effort to date to assess student performance and to collect data on the student, family and institutional factors that can help to explain differences in performance.

In the context of the agricultural census, agricultural surveys carried out based on the agricultural holding units.

In the context of the agricultural census, agricultural surveys carried out based on the agricultural holding unit from the agricultural census.

The degree to which the programme is specifically oriented towards a specific class of occupations or trades.

A framework which assists countries in controlling foot-and-mouth disease by bridging the gap between being “FMD-endemic” and achieving official recognition of FMD freedom; The approach developed by an FAO team for classifying country progress in FMD risk management. In this approach there is criteria for describing the FMD risk management position of countries that are not-free of FMD. It may lead to a tool that can be applied to measure (and communicate) country progress within regional roadmaps, and aims at starting countries along a pathway of activities from measuring risk to risk management, covering the stages before they could apply for recognition of disease freedom.

Includes crops that have been prohibited for different reasons (mainly for health reasons): coca, marihuana, opium, etc.

The ratio between water made directly available to the crop and that released from the headwork, or Ep = Ec x Eb x Ea.

Short-term paper issued by municipalities to finance short-term cash flows for a specific project.

Established by the Bank in December 1975, it helps ill the gaps in the existing system (e.g. piggyback financing, additional preparatory work necessary because the Bank has been unable to fully participate in the supervision of the preparatory work, other limitations in project preparation) by providing funds for small tasks.

An advance under the Project Preparation Facility. It is at the Bank (or IDA) rate. It is normally repaid through reimbursement under the loan/credit for the project in question.

The actuarial present value of vested and non-vested benefits attributed to the plan through the pension benefit formula for service rendered to that date based on employees’ future salary levels.

Are migrant workers admitted by the country of employment for defined period to work solely on a specific project carried out in that country by the migrant workers’ employer.

An unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum of money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.

Is based on integrating learning and life. It includes learning activities for people of every age, in all contexts (family, school, community, workplace, etc.) and using different modalities (formal and informal education), which together respond to a wide range of learning-related needs and demands.

See founders' shares.

Proportion of students from a cohort enrolled in a given grade at a given school year who study in the next grade in the following school year.

A pump having one or more stages, each consisting of an impeller on vertical shaft. The impeller develops head by the propelling or lifting action on the water. Power is delivered to the impeller by a shaft.

See: Characteristic

Property income is the sum of investment income and rent.

The property income attributed to insurance policyholders is the investment income receivable by insurance enterprises on insurance technical reserves; it is shown in the accounts as being paid by the insurance enterprises to the insurance policyholders because the technical reserves are assets of the policyholders

A legal right or interest in respect to a specific property. A type of resource ownership by an individual (individual right) a group (communal right), or the state (state property).