Statistical Terms Glossary

Number of individuals of a stock that enter the fishery area for the first time each year.

The new age group of the population entering the exploited component of the stock for the first time, or young fish growing or otherwise entering that exploitable component.

Recurrent losses (from inventories) are those losses incurred on goods held in inventories due to normal rates of wastage, theft and accidental damage which reduce the value of the total change in inventories, and hence output

Recurrent taxes on land, buildings or other structures consist of taxes payable regularly, usually each year, in respect of the use or ownership of land, buildings or other structures utilised by enterprises in production, whether the enterprises own or rent such assets.

Recycling is the processing and use of wastes in production and consumption processes, for example, melting of scrap iron so that it can be converted into new iron products.

The Red Book is a publication on payment systems, produced by the BIS’s Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems. Its objective is to provide a comprehensive description of a country's payment systems. The Red Book is revised periodically.

In a documentary credit, special clause included which allows the seller to obtain an advance from the correspondent bank to finance the manufacture or purchase of goods to be delivered under the documentary credit. Liability is assumed by the issuing bank rather than the corresponding bank. It is called red clause because red ink used to be used to draw attention to the clause.

Preliminary prospectus issued to obtain an indication of interest in the issue. It is incomplete because it does not contain the public offering price, the underwriter's discount, or the date of issue.

An issue of bonds made on an experimental basis.

Red list of threatened animals is a listing of animals threatened with extinction. The 1994 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, includes more than 6,000 animal species known to be at risk

Resale of instruments such as banker's acceptances already discounted by lender, usually with central bank or discount house, at a price less than the face value.

Rediscount credit is the credit which a central bank grants financial institutions against the purchase of bills of exchange

The redistribution of income in kind account shows how the disposable incomes of households, non- profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) and government units are transformed into their adjusted disposable income by the receipt and payment of social transfers in kind.

Land redistribution is an effort by governments to modify the distribution of land ownership. It is often an attempt to transform an agrarian structure composed mainly of large-scale farms into one where family farms are predominant by taking land away from large landowners, or the state, and redistributing it to tenants and landless peasants. Historically, land redistribution has been carried out to abolish feudal, colonial, or collective forms of landownership and more generally to correct old wrongs, According to the conventional definition, redistributive land reform is a public policy that transfers property rights over large private landholdings to small farmers. Redistributive reforms are the transfer of tenure rights from the owners to new beneficiaries. Such reforms are often promoted to provide more equitable access.; Allocation of land, fisheries and forests to beneficiaries in order to provide more equitable access.

See: Administrative regulations