Statistical Terms Glossary

Aquaculture farms with small production volume, and/or relatively small surface area, mainly without permanent labour, and typically lacking technical and financial capacity to support individual certification.

A plastic card containing important data about a person’s identity to allow access to a network or premises. Also, a card containing subscriber information, often inserted into GSM phones for roaming to different countries.

Advocated chiefly by the World Bank, smart economics is an approach to define gender equality as an integral part of economic development and aims to spur development through investing more efficiently in women and girls. It stresses that the gap between men and women in human capital, economic opportunities and voice/agency is a chief obstacle in achieving more efficient development. The Bank proclaimed that investing in women “speeds economic development by raising productivity and promoting the more efficient use of resources; it produces significant social returns, improving child survival and reducing fertility, and it has considerable intergenerational pay-offs.” Under smart economics, falls the ‘business case’ for gender equality and the empowerment of women, by businesses and enterprises which are interested in contributing to social good. A good example is the “Girl Effect initiative” of the Nike Foundation.

See Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Smog is a combination of smoke and fog in which products of combustion such as hydrocarbons, particulate matter and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen occur in concentrations that are harmful to human beings and other organisms

The individual (10 years old and over) who smokes one cigarette or more a day, including pipe and narghile smokers.

Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15+ years. “Smoked tobacco products” include the consumption of cigarettes, bidis, cigars, cheroots, pipes, shisha (water pipes), fine-cut smoking articles (roll-your-own), krekets, and any other form of smoked tobacco. "Smokeless tobacco" includes moist snuff, plug, creamy snuff, dissolvable, dry snuff, gul, loose leaf, red tooth powder, snus, chimo, gutkha, khaini, gudakhu, zarda, quiwam, dohra, tuibur, nasway, naas/naswar, shammah, betel quid, toombak, pan (betel quid), iq’mik, mishri, tapkeer, tombol and any other tobacco product that is sniffed, held in the mouth, or chewed.

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A social accounting matrix (SAM) is a means of presenting the SNA accounts in a matrix which elaborates the linkages between a supply and use table and institutional sector accounts.

A typical focus of a SAM on the role of people in the economy may be reflected by, among other things, extra breakdowns of the household sector and a disaggregated representation of labour markets (i.e., distinguishing various categories of employed persons).

Non-contributory transfers targeted at the poor or vulnerable. These may include food or jobs instead of, or as well as, cash and may include compliance conditions (conditional cash transfers).

Social assistance benefits are intended to meet the same kinds of needs as social insurance benefits but are provided outside of an organized social insurance scheme and are not conditional on previous payments of contributions.

Social assistance benefits are transfers made by government units or NPIs to households intended to meet the same kinds of needs as social insurance benefits but are provided outside of an organised social insurance scheme and are not conditional on previous payments of contributions.

Social assistance benefits in kind consist of transfers in kind provided to households by government units or non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) that are similar in nature to social security benefits in kind but are not provided in the context of a social insurance scheme.

Social assistance benefits are provided by programmes usually designed for the poorest to cover their basic needs. Usually, a means-test is used to determine whether individuals or households qualify for the benefits. These programmes are commonly tax financed.

Social benefits are current transfers received by households intended to provide for the needs that arise from certain events or circumstances, for example, sickness, unemployment, retirement, housing, education or family circumstances. There are two kinds of social benefits: social insurance benefits and social assistance benefits.