Statistical Terms Glossary

The act or process of transforming or extending a credit agreement, whereby the old debt is canceled by the establishment of a new one.

In modern economics, rent refers to the earnings of factors of production (land, labour, capital) which are fixed in supply. Thus, raising the price of such factors will not cause an increase in availability but will increase the return to the factor. This differs from the more common usage of the term, whereby rent refers to payments for the use of a resource.

Rent is the sum of rents on land and rents on subsoil assets.

Rent is the net return on a production factor whose supply is perfectly inelastic (available only as a fixed amount) such as land. It is also called pure economic rent

Household rent is the amount paid periodically (weekly, monthly and so forth) for the space occupied by a household.

The opportunity to capture monopoly rents provides firms with an incentive to use scarce resources to secure the right to become a monopolist. Such activity is referred to as rent-seeking. Rent-seeking is normally associated with expenditures designed to persuade governments to impose regulations which create monopolies. Examples are entry restrictions and import controls. However, rent-seeking may also refer to expenditures to create private monopolies.

The estimation of the imputed rents payable by owner occupiers for the housing services they produce and consume on the basis of the rents payable on the market for accommodation of the same type.

Rental on fixed assets is the amount payable by the user of a fixed asset to its owner, under an operating lease or similar contract, for the right to use that asset in production for a specified period of time

An estimate of annual payment for the holding of tenure rights.

If the unit is rented. And the payment is paid on a monthly or annually base. Rented unit may be with furniture or rented unit without furniture.

Rents on land are a form of property income; they consist of the amounts paid to a landowner by a tenant for the use of the land.

Rents on subsoil assets are a form of property income; they consist of the payments made to the owners of the subsoil assets by institutional units permitting them to extract the subsoil deposits over a specified period.

Repairs and maintenance covers all construction work not included under new construction. Such repairs may be broken down into capital repairs and current repairs and maintenance.

Is the process of citizens returning after having attempted to seek asylum abroad. In principle, this category includes persons who return after their asylum cases have been decided negatively as well as persons who may not have been able to apply for asylum but who stayed abroad under temporary protection for some time.

Are citizens returning after having enjoyed asylum abroad. Both refugees returning under internationally assisted repatriation programmes and those returning spontaneously are included in this category.

Repayable margins consist of deposits or other collateral deposited to protect a counter party against default risk, but which remain under the ownership of the unit that placed the margins.

The period during which the debt obligation is to be repaid.

Student enrolled in the same grade for a second or further year.