Statistical Terms Glossary

Habitat identified as essential to the ecological and biological requirements for critical life history stages of exploited fish species, and which may require special protection to improve stock status and long term sustainability.

A stabilisation payment is a budgetary payment made to compensate farmers for falling farm prices incomes, or both.

Stability (of ecosystem) refers to the capability of a natural system to apply self—regulating mechanisms so as to return to a steady state after an outside disturbance

The Stability and Growth Pact consists of two European Union Council Regulations on the strengthening of the surveillance of budgetary positions and the surveillance and co-ordination of economic policies and on speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure, and of a European Council Resolution on the Stability and Growth Pact adopted at the Amsterdam summit on 17 June 1997. It is intended to serve as a means of safeguarding sound government finances in Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in order to strengthen the conditions for price stability and for strong sustainable growth conducive to employment creation.

Stability programmes refer to medium-term government plans and assumptions provided by participating Member States regarding the development of key economic variables towards the achievement of the medium-term objective of a budgetary position close to balance or in surplus as referred to in the Stability and Growth Pact. Regarding budgetary positions, measures to consolidate fiscal balances as well as underlying economic scenarios are highlighted.

A population with an unchanging rate of growth and an unchanging age composition as a result of age-specific birth and death rates that have remained constant over a sufficient period of time.

Expenditure on staff compensation includes gross salaries plus non-salary compensation (fringe benefits).

Sub-level of an educational programme, defined in terms of theoretical duration or a specified set of modules to complete or credits to achieve. A specific stage has characteristics which are distinct from other stages of the same educational programme and may be individually certified by an intermediate qualification.

The classification of goods and services according to their position in the chain of production. However, unlike the classification by stage of production, a product is allocated only to one stage even though it may occur in several stages. Goods and services are classified either as primary products, intermediate products, or finished products.

The classification of goods and services according to their position in the chain of production, but allowing for the multi-function nature of products. Unlike the classification by stage of processing, a product is allocated to each stage to which it contributes and not assigned solely to one stage. Goods and services are classified as primary products and/or intermediate products and/or finished products.

A smaller part of an overall trip/journey. A trip can consist of a number of stages. A new stage is defined when there is a change in the mode of transport or when there is a change of vehicle requiring a separate ticket. A stage is a movement making use of one single transport mode, including any waiting time directly before or during the movement. A stage is defined by one single mode of transport.

Any person or group with a legitimate interest in the use and future of the resource. It includes but is not limited to fishers, processors, buyers, resource stewards, conservationists and conservation agencies, tourism agents, scientists and resource managers.

Form of violence against women defined as repeatedly engaging in threatening conduct directed at a woman, causing her to fear for her safety.

The category stamp taxes consists of those stamp taxes which do not fall on particular classes of transactions elsewhere identified, particularly in paragraphs 7.69 and 7.70 of the System of National Accounts (e.g. stamps on legal documents or cheques, which are treated as taxes on the production of business or financial services

Programming and policies that explicitly address gender inequality to achieve gender equality.

See Environmental quality standard and Emission standard

Are those that follow prescribed rules and are generally recommended and accepted. They aim to ensure that information is classified consistently regardless of the collection, source, point of time, etc.

A stock of a particular type of asset is converted to standard efficiency units by adjusting the older assets in the stock to account for their reduced efficiency in producing capital services

It refers to a measure of the extent to which estimates from various samples differ from the expected value, and it is computed as the square root of the variance.

This method is mainly used for the compilation of input construction price indices. For any given year a representative construction (or small number of projects) is selected and the quantities of each factor used to build it (e.g. materials, labour, transport, machinery, etc.) evaluated.