Statistical Terms Glossary

An operation whereby, when a domestic debtor repays a foreign debt, the funds are relent by the foreign creditor to a second debtor within the same country. See on lending.

Equivalent to relending in connection with new money loans. The funds are recorded as a deposit in the central bank but the foreign bank and the contractual borrower (usually the Central Bank) agree that the loan proceeds will be made available to a third party within the country of the borrower.

The extent to which statistics meet current and potential users' needs.

Closeness of the initial estimated value to the subsequent estimated value.

For census purposes religion may be defined as either:(a) religious or spiritual belief of preference, regardless of whether or not this belief is represented by an organised group; or (b) affiliation with an organised group having specific religious or spiritual tenets.

For census purposes, religion may be defined as either: (a) Religious or spiritual belief of preference, regardless of whether or not this belief is represented by an organized group; or (b) Affiliation with an organized group having specific religious or spiritual tenets. Each country that investigates religion in its census should use the definition most appropriate to its needs and should set forth, in the census publication, the definition that has been used.

The period of time until debt payments fall due. In the Guide, it is recommended that short-term remaining maturity of outstanding external debt be measured by adding the value of outstanding short-term external debt (original maturity) to the value of outstanding long-term external debt (original maturity) due to be paid in one year or less.

Basic Access refers to people’s ability to access goods, services and activities that society considers particularly important (also called essential or lifeline). Basic Mobility refers to physical travel that provides Basic Access.

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA or Triple A) management for users who connect and use a network service. RADIUS was developed by Livingston Enterprises, Inc. in 1991 as an access server authentication and accounting protocol and later brought into the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards.

Voting that takes place by electronic means from any location.

Ability to log on to a network, or to another computer over a network. All internet access is remote access because data is downloaded from a remote server.

Recording of images of the Earth's surface from aircraft and satellites and processing and analysing of these images to obtain information needed for inventories of natural resources, assessments of natural disasters, preparation of maps, and so forth.

Remuneration includes the ordinary, basic or minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments whatsoever payable directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind, by the employer to the worker and arising out of the worker’s employment. ‘Equal remuneration for women and men workers for work of equal value’ refers to rates of remuneration established without discrimination based on sex.

Occurs when an employee accepts payment in the form of goods and services instead of money.

Energy that is "derived from natural processes (e.g. sunlight and wind) that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed.

Renewable natural resources are natural resources that, after exploitation, can return to their previous stock levels by natural processes of growth or replenishment. Conditionally renewable resources are those whose exploitation eventually reaches a level beyond which regeneration will become impossible. Such is the case with the clear—cutting of tropical forests

Natural resources that, after exploitation, can return to their previous stock levels by natural processes of growth or replenishment.

Of a country are generated by precipitation and inflows of water from neighbouring territories and reduced by evapotranspiration.

External Renewable Water Resources (ERWR) are that part of the country’s renewable water resources that are not generated within the country. They include inflows from upstream countries (groundwater and surface water), and part of the water of border lakes or rivers.

Internal Renewable Water Resources (IRWR): long-term average annual flow of rivers and recharge of aquifers generated from endogenous precipitation. Double counting of surface water and groundwater resources is avoided by deducting the overlap from the sum of the surface water and groundwater resources.

Total Actual Renewable Water Resources (TRWR_actual): the sum of internal renewable water resources (IRWR) and external actual renewable water resources (ERWR_actual). It corresponds to the maximum theoretical yearly amount of water actually available for a country at a given moment.

Total Natural Renewable Water Resources (TRWR_natural): the long-term average sum of internal renewable water resources (IRWR) and external natural renewable water resources (ERWR_natural). It corresponds to the maximum theoretical yearly amount of water actually available for a country at a given moment.