Statistical Terms Glossary

Raw sewage is untreated domestic or commercial waste water

A re-interview occurs when an original respondent is re-contacted by someone from a survey organization usually not the original interviewer and some or all of the original questions are asked again.

Spate irrigation, also sometimes referred to as floodwater harvesting, is a method of informal irrigation using the floodwaters of a normally dry water course or riverbed (wadi).

Presented to HM King Abdullah II in October 1999, the REACH report laid out a clear plan of action to bolster the country's nascent IT sector and maximize its ability to compete in local, regional, and global markets.

Tractor vehicle with front equipment for lifting, stacking or moving ITUs.

This event involves an enterprise becoming dormant for a period of less than two years, then recommencing activity in away that complies with the definition of continuity. In terms of business demography this event does not constitute a
birth or death.

The person reads regularly for the sake of increasing knowledge or promoting culture. Whether reading to prepare for school or for any other purpose. Type and time reference of reading are not of special interest here.

Reading literacy is defined in PISA as the ability to understand, use and reflect on written texts in order to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential, and to participate effectively in society.

Real effective exchange rates take account of price level differences between trading partners. Movements in real effective exchange rates provide an indication of the evolution of a country’s aggregate external price competitiveness

Organization which collects funds from individuals for reinvestment in real estate. The funds are normally collected by the sale of shares of owner ship in the trust.

National final expenditures on GDP that have been converted to a common currency and valued at a uniform price level with PPPs. Expenditures so converted reflect only volume differences between countries.

Real gross domestic income (real GDI) measures the purchasing power of the total incomes generated by domestic production (including the impact on those incomes of changes in the terms of trade); it is equal to gross domestic product at constant prices plus the trading gain (or less the trading loss) resulting from changes in the terms of trade.

A real holding gain (loss) is the amount by which the value of an asset increases (decreases) over the neutral holding gain for the period, in the absence of transactions and other changes in the volume of assets.

The real holding gain/loss (non-residents) is that value - expressed in national currency - of the asset resulting from the difference between the nominal and the neutral gain/loss.

Real income is obtained by deflating any income flow by a price index in order to measure the purchasing power of the item in question over a designated numeraire set of goods and services

Real interest is the difference between nominal interest and an amount equal to the loss of purchasing power on the monetary value of the principal during the accounting period

Normal rate less rate of inflation, divided by one plus the rate of inflation.