Statistical Terms Glossary

Are information systems that support outreach, intake, registration, and determination of potential eligibility for one or more social programs. They have both a social policy role, as inclusion systems, and an operational role, as information systems.

Social regulations protect public interests such as health, safety, the environment, and social cohesion. The economic effects of social regulations may be secondary concerns or even unexpected, but can be substantial. Reform aims to verify that regulation is needed, and to design regulatory and other instruments, such as market incentives and goal-based approaches, that are more flexible, simpler, and more effective at lower cost.

In cash are social insurance benefits payable in cash to households by social security funds.

Social security benefits in cash are social insurance benefits payable in cash to households by social security funds; they may take the form of sickness and invalidity benefits, maternity allowances, children’s or family allowances, other dependants’ allowances, unemployment benefits, retirement and survivors’ pensions, death benefits or other allowances or benefits.

Reimbursements (social security benefits) are repayments (partial or complete) by social security funds of approved expenditures made by households on specified goods or services.

Are social insurance programmes covering the community as a whole or large sections of the community that are imposed and controlled by a government unit. They generally involve compulsory contributions by employees or employers or both, and the terms on which benefits are paid to recipients are determined by a government unit.

Are social insurance programmes covering the community as a whole or large sections of the community that are imposed and controlled by a government unit.

Social security funds are separately organised from the other activities of government units and hold their assets and liabilities separately from the latter; they are separate institutional units because they are autonomous funds, they have their own assets and liabilities and engage in financial transactions on their own account

Social security is a basic human right. It covers health care and family benefits and provides income security in the event of such contingencies as sickness, unemployment, old age, invalidity, employment injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner. Social security schemes include are social assistance schemes, universal schemes, social insurance, and public or private provisions.

Are schemes imposed and controlled by government units for the purpose of providing social benefits to members of the community as a whole, or of particular sections of the community.

Social (and collective) services provide final consumption for households and are distinctive for their non-market character in most OECD countries. Collective consumption decisions and public financing are common, as is production by governments, non-profit organisations and subsidised private organisations.

Describe those social outcomes that policies try to influence.

The extreme disapproval of (or discontent with) a person or group on socially characteristic grounds that are perceived, and serve to distinguish them, from other members of a society. Stigma may then be affixed to such a person, by the greater society, who differs from their cultural norms.

Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided as transfers in kind to individual households by government units (including social security funds) and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs), whether purchased on the market or produced as non- market output by government units or NPISHs.

The items included are:

(a) social security benefits, reimbursements,

(b) other social security benefits in kind,

(c) social assistance benefits in kind, and

(d) transfers of individual non-market goods or services.

The process by which girls and boys learn what roles are assigned to them.

Provide information about the scale and nature of social policy interventions, i.e. what society is doing to affect social status.

In 1973, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) starts the mission of creating a shared worldwide data processing and communications link and a common language for international financial transactions. SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations with speed, certainty and confidence.

Gender-related consideration of the WHO Gender Analysis Matrix. Factors related to gender norms, roles and relations that may result in gender inequality.

Socio-economic violence is both a cause and an effect of dominant gender power relations in societies. Some of the most typical forms of socio-economic violence include taking away the victim’s earnings, not allowing her to have a separate income (forced ‘housewife’ status, working in the family business without a salary), or making her unfit for work through targeted physical abuse. In the public sphere this can include denial of access to education or (equally) paid work (mainly to women), denial of access to services, exclusion from certain jobs, denial of the enjoyment and exercise of civil, cultural, social, or political rights.

Slabs of peat, cut by hand or machine, and dried in the air.

The programs, procedures, rules and associated documentation needed to operate an information processing system.

The unauthorized copying of software.

Regional finance institutions in Japan, dealing chiefly with smaller enterprises

Soil is the loose and unconsolidated outer layer of the earth’s crust, made up of small particles of different sizes

A combination of in-situ water conservation and soil conservation measures. Soil conservation measures comprises any set of measures intended to control or prevent soil erosion or to maintain fertility. Water conservation includes the usage of berms or bunds to slow or stop the migration of surface water.