Statistical Terms Glossary

General cargo ship with 80 per cent or more insulated cargo space.

Re-entrants to a level of education are students who were not included in the enrolment statistics at that level in the previous reference year, but had been included during some year prior to the preceding reference year

Re-exports are foreign goods exported in the same state as previously imported, from the free circulation area, premises for inward processing or industrial free zones, directly to the rest of the world and from premises for customs warehousing or commercial free zones, to the rest of the world.

The reference (border) price is the import (c.i.f.) or export (f.o.b.) price of a commodity used for calculating the market price support price gap, measured at the farm gate level. An implicit border price may be calculated as, for example, the unit value of imports or exports

Cyclical indicator systems are constructed around a "reference chronology". The reference series is the economic variable whose cyclical movements it is intended to predict. In the OECD system, the index of total industrial production is used as the reference series.

The country, or group of countries such as the European Union or the OECD, for which the value of the PPP is set at 1.00 and the value of the comparative price level index and of the volume index is set at 100.

The crop evapotranspiration under standard conditions, denoted as ETc, is the evapotranspiration from disease-free, well-fertilized crops, grown in large fields, under optimum soil water conditions, and achieving full production under the given climatic conditions.

Group of holdings to be tabulated for the item in a tabulation; for example, the item “area irrigated” is only meaningful for land holdings.

Under the existing EC directives, a firm which is designated as having SMP must regularly produce a document the terms and conditions at which it will provide access to specified services. This document must be approved by the regulator.

A benchmark against which to assess the performance of management in achieving the objectives. A limit reference point is a level of a certain parameter to avoid going beyond.

1) An estimated value derived from an agreed scientific procedure and/or model, which corresponds to a specific state of the resource and of the fishery, and that can be used as a guide for fisheries management. Reference points may be general (applicable to many stocks) or stock-specific.,2) A reference point indicates a particular state of a fishery indicator corresponding to a situation considered as desirable ( target reference point) or undesirable and requiring immediate action ( limit reference point ).

The set of households included within the scope of the index.

PPPs that are use for basic headings for which no prices are collected. They are based on prices collected for other basic headings. Reference PPPs serve as proxies for the PPPs that would have been calculated had prices been collected for the basic headings for which no prices were collected.

The reference rate of interest (to be used in allocating financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM)) is the pure cost of borrowing funds (i.e. a rate from which the risk premium has been eliminated to the greatest extent possible and which does not include any intermediation services

Cyclical indicator systems are constructed around a "reference chronology". The reference series is the economic variable whose cyclical movements it is intended to predict. In the OECD system, the index of total industrial production is used as the reference series.

A calendar year to which the annual results refer. The year for which the comparison is made.

See target zone.

The process whereby a health care or community worker performs a series of operations and procedures so that their client benefits from accessing additional and/or different services.

Refinancing refers to the extension of a new loan to enable the repayment of all or part of the amounts outstanding on earlier borrowing, possibly including amounts not yet due

Risk of not being able to refinance short-term borrowings under suitable conditions when these borrowings mature.

Refined petroleum products include but are not limited to gasoline, kerosene, distillates (including No. 2 fuel oil), liquefied petroleum gas, asphalt, lubricating oils, diesel fuels, and residual fuels.

A refinery feedstock is product or a combination of products derived from crude oil and destined for further processing other than blending in the refining industry. It is transformed into one or more components and/or finished products.