Statistical Terms Glossary

Ship arranged for Ro-Ro loading/unloading.

Wheeled equipment for carrying goods, such as a lorry, trailer or semi-trailer, which can be driven or towed onto a vessel or train.

A method of cultivation by a motorized cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating tines or blades.

Are the most common cause of severe diarrhoeal disease in young children throughout the world.

Two-way course of travel to a destination and back to origin, along the same route, consisting of two separate journeys, one outward and one return. The destination of the outward journey is recorded as the midpoint of the round trip.

The weight of the whole fish before processing or removal of any part.

Situation whereby foreign currency denominated debt is purchased at a discount and redeemed for full face value in the local currency, thereby encouraging capital flight.

In the broadest sense, any communications equipment that forwards information on a connectionless basis. Typically, routers are special purpose computers, which operate at Layer 3 of the OSI reference model and forward information based on a Layer 3 address which has network wide significance. For example, Internet routers forward IP packets based on their destination addresses. Routers operate without using connections, as opposed to switches which do establish connections.

The IDN WG's comparison document [IDNComp] describes three potential main architectures for IDN: arch-1 (just send binary), arch-2 (send binary or ACE), and arch-3 (just send ACE). RACE is an ACE, called
Row-based ACE or RACE, that can be used with protocols that match arch-2 or arch-3. RACE specifies an ACE format as specified in ace-1 in [IDNComp]. Further, it specifies an identifying mechanism for ace-2 in
[IDNComp], namely ace-2.1.1 (add hopefully-unique legal tag to the beginning of the name part).In formal terms, RACE describes a character encoding scheme of the ISO 10646 [ISO10646] coded character set and the rules for using that scheme in the DNS.

“Royalties” is the term often used to describe either the regular payments made by the lessees of subsoil assets to the owners of the assets (these payments are treated as rents in the System of National Accounts (SNA)) or the payments made by units using processes or producing products covered by patents (these are treated as purchases of services produced by the owners of the patents in the SNA).

Is a viral disease which is usually mild in children, but infection during early pregnancy may cause fetal death or congenital rubella syndrome, which can lead to defects of the brain, heart, eyes, and ears.

The Rule of reason is a legal approach by competition authorities or the courts where an attempt is made to evaluate the pro-competitive features of a restrictive business practice against its anticompetitive effects in order to decide whether or not the practice should be prohibited.

Laws, regulations and administrative procedures which determine a product’s country of origin. A decision by a customs authority on origin can determine whether a shipment falls within a quota limitation, qualifies for a tariff preference or is affected by an anti-dumping duty. These rules can vary from country to country.

The average rate of interest applied to an outstanding loan, based on the rates applied on all savings bond [France, Belgium, U.S.] previous disbursements, weighted, where necessary, to allow for different levels of disbursement.

A track providing end-to-end line continuity designed for running trains between stations or places indicated in timetables, network statements, rosters or other indications/publications as independent points of departure or arrival for the conveyance of passengers or goods.

Is the portion of precipitation not immediately absorbed into or detained on soil and which thus becomes surface water flow.

Areas where rainwater is collected and directly applied to the cropped area.