Statistical Terms Glossary

A two-way telecommunications service that allows live video images and speech of participants in a conference to be transmitted between two or more locations. Videoconferencing services generally require digital transmission.

(the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales)

Connecting the subscriber's terminal equipment to the public switched network and which have a dedicated port in the telephone exchange equipment.

Pertaining to regions with cold climates, away from the tropics.

Factors used to adjust average prices obtained at the time of survey to annual average prices.

Indexes which measure differences in prices over time in a particular locality.

Refers to the customs procedure under which certain goods can be brought into a customs territory conditionally relieved from payment of import duties and taxes; such goods must be intended for re-exportation within a specific period after having undergone manufacturing, processing or repair...'compensating products' means the products obtained during or as a result of the manufacturing, processing or repair of the goods temporarily admitted for inward processing...[they] need not be obtained solely from goods temporarily admitted for inward processing; it may be necessary to use goods of national origin or previously imported...Operations allowed under the temporary admission for inward processing procedure may be carried out in premises designated as warehouses for inward processing".. compensating products [may be exported to a] free port or free zone [placed]...in a customs warehouse with a view to subsequent exportation or other authorized disposal...or [declared] for home use. (Kyoto Convention, annex E.6, definitions (a) and (c); standard (2), note 5; and standards 34, 36 and 37).

"'Temporary admission' means the customs procedure under which certain goods can be brought into a customs territory conditionally relieved from payment of import duties and taxes; such goods must be imported for a specific purpose and must be intended for re-exportation within a specified period and without having undergone any change except normal depreciation due to the use made of the goods" (Kyoto Convention, annex E.5, definition (a)). The Convention on Temporary Admission, a which was agreed at Istanbul in June 1990, provides a detailed description of this procedure and identifies goods allowed for temporary admission.

Crops that are both sown and harvested during the same agricultural year, sometimes more than once.

Crops with a less than one-year growing cycle.

Comprises work under a fixed- term contract, in contrast to permanent work where there is no end-date. Employment under temporary contracts often entails a different set of legal obligations on behalf of employers; in particular, certain aspects of employment protection legislation do not apply to temporary contracts.

The temporary exportation [of goods] for outward processing is a "customs procedure under which goods which are in free circulation in a customs territory may be temporarily exported for manufacturing, processing or repair abroad and then reimported with total or partial exemption from import duties and taxes...'compensating products' means the products obtained abroad during or as a result of the manufacturing, processing or repair of the goods temporarily exported for outward processing". The compensating products may be "placed in a customs warehouse or a free zone before being declared for home use" (Kyoto Convention, annex E.8, definitions (a) and (d) and recommended practice 25).

A temporary housing unit refers to a structure that, by the way that it has been built, is not expected to maintain its durability for as long a period of time as, but has some of the facilities of, a conventional dwelling.

This term refers to actions aimed at accelerating de facto equality between women and men that may, in the short term, favor women.

Working land owned by another and paying rent with a portion of the crops.; Agricultural area utilised for tenant farming; tenant-farmed agricultural area.

The term tendency is used in business tendency surveys where the respondent is asked for a judgment on the direction of changes (e.g. up/down/same).

In a Euronote issue, a group of banks separate from but usually with many members common to the group of underwriters. The panel members bid for any notes issued, up to a predetermined maximum spread. The underwriters take up any notes not bid for or extend loans of an equivalent amount. The tender panel banks expect to place any paper they receive rather than hold it themselves.

The period of debt rescheduling in number of years.

An instrument used to measure the matric potential (sometimes called the soil moisture retention curve and/or desorption curve).