Statistical Terms Glossary

Ship specially designed for the carriage of particular cargoes.

Specialised financial intermediaries include holding corporations, companies that provide short- term financing for corporate mergers and takeovers, export/import finance firms, factors or factoring companies, venture capital and development capital firms, and pawnshops that predominantly engage in lending rather than retailing

They are vehicles or equipment that are placed on a wheeled vehicle for productive purposes such as (grader wheel loader, shovel bulldozer, rocking pestle crane, forklift, puncher (carpenter), armored, armored ... etc.).

It refers to the name of the subject the person successfully completed. Educational attainment and majors were classified according to the majors and educational levels manual adopted by the PCBS.

Defines specialty crops as “fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture).”

Species are all the individuals and populations of a particular kind of organism, maintained by biological mechanisms that result in their breeding only with their own kind

The term used to describe the collection of species making up any co-occurring community of organisms in a given habitat or fishing ground.

Group of species considered together, often because they are difficult to differentiate without detailed examination (very similar species) or because data for the separate species are not available (e.g. in fishery statistics or commercial categories).

Measures targeted at a particular group and intended to eliminate and prevent discrimination or to offset disadvantages arising from existing attitudes, behaviours and structures.

World Bank loan for a specific investment project.

Impairments in information processing resulting in difficulties in listening, reasoning, speaking, reading, writing, spelling, or doing mathematical calculations – for example, dyslexia.

The portion of the total loss reserve that is attributed to the decline in the value of specific investments below original cost.

In the environmental protection expenditure account “specific taxes” designate a sub-set of taxes that contribute to the financing of environmental protection. The revenue from specific taxes is regarded as being earmarked for environmental protection.

A description or list of the characteristics that can be used to identify an individual sampled product to be priced. A tight specification is a fairly precise description of an item intended to narrow the range of items from which a price collector might choose, possibly reducing it to a unique item, such as a particular brand of television set identified by a specific code number.

The pricing methodology whereby a manageable sample of precisely specified products is selected, in consultation with each reporting establishment, for repeat pricing. Products are fully defined in terms of all characteristics which influence their transaction prices.

A tariff that is levied at a specific rate per physical unit of the particular item (e.g., $100 per tonne). Contrast with Ad valorem tariff.

Is a conceptual tool used to organize and map the physical phenomena of electromagnetic waves. These waves propagate through space at different frequencies, and the set of all possible frequencies is called the electromagnetic spectrum. The term radio spectrum typically refers to the full frequency range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz that may be used for wireless communication.

See junk bond.

Issue of paper rated at BB+ or below (or equivalent) by a rating agency.

Estimates of oil which have not been positively identified but which, based on previous geological experience, it is reasonable to expect to discover in the future.

Aimed at restoring people’s capacity to communicate effectively and to swallow safely and efficiently.

Spending on educational services other than instruction includes public spending on ancillary services such as meals, transport to schools, or housing on the campus; private spending on fees for ancillary services; subsidised private spending on student living costs or reduced prices for transport; and private spending on student living costs or transport.