Statistical Terms Glossary

Under the current EC Directives, an operator designated as having SMP is subject to specific obligations such as the requirement to produce an RIO and the obligation to have cost-oriented tariffs (except for mobile operators). An operator is presumed to have SMP if it has more than 25% of a telecommunications market in the geographic area in which it is allowed to operate.

Wagons for the transport in bulk of powdered products such as cement, flower, plaster etc.

Silt is fine particles of sand and rock that can be picked up by the air or by water and deposited as sediments

Referring to the build up of silt (fine particles of soil, rock, mud, clay, dirt) that is suspended in rivers or other bodies of water.

A fish of the Megalopidae family. The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. Tarpons feed almost exclusively on schooling fish and, occasionally, on crabs. Tarpons are capable of filling their swim bladder with air, like a primitive lung. This gives tarpons a predatory advantage when oxygen levels in the water are low. Tarpons have been recorded at up to 250 centimetres (98 in) in length and weighing up to 161 kilograms (350 lb). Atlantic tarpons are also known as the silver king.

Is the management of forest land for timber.

In numeric data, a concept of closeness of two records based on prescribed matching variables. A distance function is used to quantify this concept according to some criteria.

Application layer protocol over the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) connection used to send e-mail.

<protocol> (SOAP) A minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML over HTTP.

It is a method of selecting n units from the population units N and each unit has equal chance of being drawn.

Intermodal transport of goods using two modes of transport simultaneously, where one (passive) means of transport is carried on another (active) means of transport which provides traction and consumes energy, e.g. Rail/road transport, sea/road transport and sea/rail transport.

It applies if the person aged 14 years has not been married or. Legally engaged (according to customs and traditions applicable in the country).

Imputes data for a failed record from a single donor, allowing for joint imputation of all item values on a record identified as problematic by the edits.

Funds that pool the assets of pension plans established by a single sponsor.

With the 2003 CAP reform, the EU introduced a farm-based payment largely independent of current production decisions and market developments, but based on the level of former payments received by farmers. To facilitate land transfers, entitlements are calculated by dividing the reference amount of payment by the number of eligible hectares (including forage area) in the reference year. Farmers receiving the new SFP are obliged to keep their land in good agricultural and environmental condition and have the flexibility to produce any commodity on their land except fruits, vegetables and table potatoes.

A single indicator method of deflation is a means of estimating the volume movements of value added directly using only one time series as an indicator (e.g. deflated output or deflated value added) instead of double deflation.

Consists of a person living alone in a separate housing unit or who occupies, as a lodger, a separate room (or rooms) of a housing unit but does not join with any of the other occupants of the housing unit to form part of a multi-person household.

Any injury accident in which only one road vehicle is involved.

Collective bargaining is a process of decision-making between parties representing employer and employee interests which implies the “negotiation and continuous application of an agreed set of rules to govern the substantive and procedural terms of the employment relationship ….”

Single-factor productivity is a synonym for partial productivity measure. It relates output to one particular type of input.

Single-parent families are families that include dependent children of a father or mother as a result of divorce, or separation, or the death of a parent.

A road transport accident in which only one vehicle is involved.