Statistical Terms Glossary

Currently married women aged 15-49 years who had at least one child during the past two years preceding the survey, not using contraceptive methods and try to get pregnant during that period.

Secondary market refers to the purchase or sale of securities between the time of their initial issuance and before they mature. Many money market instruments are sold and bought several times by different investors before they mature

Redistribution of an outstanding block of stock by a securities firm. It is handled privately off the organized exchanges after the close of the market, at a fixed price not exceeding the last sale price on the floor.

Outside bank participating in an underwriting syndicate.

Public offering of previously issued securities held by large investors, usually corporations, institutions others, as opposed to issue of new stock, where the seller is the issuing corporation.

Secondary radiation refers to radiation originating from the absorption of previous radiation in matter. It may be in the form either of electromagnetic waves or of moving particles

Railway enterprise other than principal which carries out transport operations for the public.

A person who was influenced by the experience of violence perpetrated on another person. The secondary survivor may be a member of the family or someone close to the survivor.

Secondary treatment is the second step in most waste treatment systems during which bacteria consume the organic parts of the wastes. This is accomplished by bringing the sewage, bacteria and oxygen together in trickling filters or within an activated sludge process.
Secondary treatment removes all floating and settleable solids and about 90 per cent of the oxygen—demanding substances and suspended solids. Disinfection by chlorination is the final stage of the secondary treatment process

The victim affected by violence, without being the main target originally.

Groundwater or surface water that was previously withdrawn and returned to rivers and aquifers.

A general term used to describe a group of establishments engage in similar kinds of economic activity. A sector can be a subgroup of an economic activity - as in “coal mining sector” - or a group of economic activities - as in “service sector” - or a cross-section of a group of economic activities - as in “informal sector”.

Feeding subscribers from switch to lines without being connected to cabin.

See agricultural sector adjustment loan.

A loan aiming at major policy improvements in a sector.

In the 1993 SNA and the IMF Balance of Payments Manual, Version 5, (BPM5), institutional sectors are formed by the grouping of similar kinds of institutional units according to their economic objectives and functions.

Loan aimed at investing in a particular sector maintaining the level of activity in that sector.

A loan geared towards a particular sector.

The sector of the recipient’s economy that the aid activity is designed to assist. It does not refer to the type of goods or services provided. Some contributions are not targeted to a specific sector, e.g. balance-of-payments support, debt relief, emergency aid and development education in the donor country. These are called “non sector allocable aid”.

All significant donor funding support a single, comprehensive sector policy and independent programme, consistent with a sound macro-economic framework, under government leadership. Donor support for a SWAp can take any form – project aid, technical assistance or budget support – although there should be a commitment to progressive reliance on government procedures to disburse and account for all funds as these procedures are strengthened.

Approach whose objective is to ensure that a gender dimension is integrated into the work of all governmental bodies and into all policy areas via an effective commitment to gender mainstreaming by policymakers when devising sectoral plans and programmes, as well as the building/strengthening of the technical competencies of all those involved in the implementation of this strategy.

Sectoral output refers to the output of an industry at a given level of aggregation that only reflects deliveries outside of the industry. Sector output is the output of an integrated industry

A policy framework, for the long- and/ or medium-term, which has been adopted by a government as a plan of action for a particular area of the economy or society.