Statistical Terms Glossary

Superlative indices are price or quantity indices that are ‘exact’ for a flexible aggregator. A flexible aggregator is a second-order approximation to an arbitrary production, cost, utility or distance function. Exactness implies that a particular index number can be directly derived from a specific flexible aggregator.

See Pension supervisor, Regulatory authority.

The individual(s) responsible for monitoring the governing body of a pension entity.

The process of providing additional water to stabilise or increase yields under site conditions where a crop can normally be grown under direct rainfall, the additional water being insufficient to produce a crop. The concept consists in making up rainfall deficits during critical stages of the crops in order to increase yields.

It refers to quantity of water, which has been distributed from its different resources after collection and treatment for consumers (industrial and commercial establishment, irrigation utilities and public institutions).

A financing arrangement under which an exporter extends credit to the buyer.

A supply and use table for environmental protection activities and products.

A matrix that describes the supply of natural resources (by the environment) and the uses for production, final consumption and rest of the world.

A matrix that describes the supply (origin) of residuals from national or rest of the world economic activities or from the rest of the world environment (cross border environmental inflows) and their use (destination) by (to) the national economy, national or rest of the world environment (cross border environmental outflows).

Supply and use tables are in the form of matrices that record how supplies of different kinds of goods and services originate from domestic industries and imports and how those supplies are allocated between various intermediate or final uses, including exports.

The network created amongst different companies producing, handling and distributing a specific product. It encompasses the steps it takes to get a good or service from the supplier to the customer.; A sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution of fish and fishery products from the point of capture to the end market. It includes fishing vessels, processors and distributors.

Any among a wide range of measures designed to affect the level of production or supply, including measures that restrict output directly (such as milk quotas) and those that restrict the use of an input.

The programmes adopted to achieve effective supply management of water resources. This includes adequate planning of surface water, groundwater and non-conventional water sources.

Are limits on acreage, production or marketed quantities of a particular commodity in the context of a supply control programme. Limits on acreage, production or marketed quantities of a particular commodity in the context of a supply control programme.

Support refers to transfers, in monetary form, from the government or consumers to an activity or sector. Support can include transfers from governments the form of direct payments (e.g., grants), cost-reducing transfers (e.g., loan concessions) and general services (e.g., government funded marketing or research). Transfers from consumers to an activity or sector is primarily made up of market price support normally arising from tariffs and quantitative restrictions.

Сlerical staff, building operations or maintenance staff, security personnel, drivers, catering staff etc, working in educational institutions.