Statistical Terms Glossary

Also Customary Marine Tenure (CMT) - fishery management methods that assign rights to individuals and/or groups to fish in certain locations, generally, although not necessarily, based on long-standing tradition (‘customary usage’).

A delimited geographical area where a human community has developed, over the course of history, a collective production method and expertise.

Tertiary education builds on secondary education, providing learning activities in specialised fields of education. It aims at learning at a high level of complexity and specialisation. Tertiary education includes what is commonly understood as academic education but also includes advanced vocational or professional education. It comprises ISCED levels 5, 6, 7 and 8, which are labelled as short-cycle tertiary education, Bachelor’s or equivalent level, Master’s or equivalent level, and doctoral or equivalent level, respectively.

Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, or gymnasium. Higher education is taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, while vocational education and training beyond secondary education is known as further education in the United Kingdom, or higher education in the United States.

See Exchange rates

Tertiary treatment is the advanced treatment process, following secondary treatment of waste water, that produces high—quality water. Tertiary treatment includes removal of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and practically all suspended and organic matter from waste water

Tertiary-type A programmes (ISCED 5A) are largely theory-based and are designed to provide sufficient qualifications for entry to advanced research programmes and professions with high skill requirements, such as medicine, dentistry or architecture.
Tertiary-type A programmes have a minimum cumulative theoretical duration (at tertiary level) of three years’ full-time equivalent, although they typically last four or more years.
These programmes are not exclusively offered at universities.

Tertiary-type B programmes (ISCED 5B) are typically shorter than those of tertiary-type A and focus on practical, technical or occupational skills for direct entry into the labour market, although some theoretical foundations may be covered in the respective programmes. They have a minimum duration of two years full-time equivalent at the tertiary level.

The approach to index number theory that determines the choice of index number formula on the basis of its mathematical properties.

Is caused by a bacterium which grows in the absence of oxygen, for example in dirty wounds or in the umbilical cord if it is not kept clean.

Tetanus toxoid vaccination is recommended for all pregnant women, depending on previous tetanus vaccination exposure, to prevent neonatal mortality fromtetanus.

A statistical unit based on a 20-foot long ISO container (6.10 m) to provide a standardized measure of containers of various capacities and for describing the capacity of container transport carrier or terminals. Examples:
- One 20-foot long ISO container equals 1 TEU;
- One 40-foot long ISO container equals 2 TEU;
- One container between 20 and 40-foot long equals 1.50 TEU;
- One container of more than 40-foot long equals 2.25 TEU.

TEU-kilometres performed expressed as a percentage of TEU kilometres offered.

TEU-kilometres performed expressed as a percentage of TEU-kilometres offered.

Unit of measurement of container transport which represents the transport of one TEU by road over one kilometre.

TEU-kilometres performed is calculated as the sum over all journeys of the product of the total number of TEUs carried and the port-to-port distance for each journey.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of one TEU over one kilometre.

The TEU-kilometres offered is determined by the TEU carrying capacity of the means of transport and the origin-to-destination kilometres distance for all journeys.
Note: The TEU carrying capacity will be the stated capacity recorded in the register of the classification society.

TEU-kilometres performed is calculated as the sum of the product of the total TEUs carried and the origin-to-destination kilometres for all journeys.

Unit for measuring the goods transport by containers equivalent to one TEU transported over a distance of one kilometre.

The TEUs on board a means of transport on arrival or departure.

Automatic conversion of text streams to voice.

Women’s status in patriarchal societies, as explored in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex where women are defined and differentiated in relation to men, constituting norms; they are inessential (the Other), in opposition to the essential (a Man as the Subject, the Absolute, the One).

The demographic balancing equation is a formula for determining total population change from year to another or estimates an unknown component of the population change component, provided that other elements are known. The equilibrium equation includes all elements of population change.... births, deaths, country immigration and internal and external migration.

This theory is one of the most widely recognized theories that describes population change over time.

See overall risk profile.

Are financial institutions including the World Bank Group, other multilateral and regional development banks, and national development banks with international objectives, are critical development partners to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to policy expertise, economic analysis and knowledge products, they bring to the table considerable development resources and deep ties to national governments.

The locomotives that pull passenger cars and goods

Intended number of passengers transferred to mileage by trains (the energy obtained from passenger transport)(Number of passengers transported x Kilometers travelled by trains and unit of measurement (passenger. Km).