Statistical Terms Glossary

Unduplicated total count of graduates is calculated by netting out those students who graduated from programmes in a previous year and/or who are earning more than one qualification at the specified level during the reference period. It represents therefore a count of individuals graduating and not certificates being awarded.

The unearned premium is the amount of the actual premium received that relates to the period past the accounting point.

Unemployed persons are those individuals aged 15 years and over who did not work at all during the reference period, who were not absent from a job, were available for work and actively seeking a job during the reference period by one of the following methods news paper, registered at employment office, ask friends or relatives or any other method.

Unemployment benefits are usually paid only to the involuntarily unemployed, who are capable and available for work. Unemployment programmes are usually provided to compensate after a lay off. However, some unemployment programmes may not be related to a previous activity, such as unemployment assistance programmes.

Includes all forms of cash benefit to compensate for unemployment, except early retirement. In addition to unemployment insurance and assistance, this covers publicly funded redundancy payments, compensation to workers whose employers go bankrupt, and special support of various groups such as construction workers laid off during bad weather.

The time period from the beginning of the searching work until the beginning of the reference period of the data collection.

The unemployment rate expresses the number of unemployed as a percent of the labour force.

Is based on pricing a constant representative basket of products at the prices of the base period and at the prices of the current period. Because the products and their weights remain constant, any change in the index is due to price changes only. An index that measures “pure” price change.

Unforeseen obsolescence is the loss in value on an asset due to a fall in demand for that type of asset that could not have been foreseen when the asset was acquired.

Unforeseen obsolescence may occur because of a new invention or discovery which destroys the market for the asset or because a shift in relative prices makes it uneconomical to continue using the asset.

It is not included in consumption of fixed capital but in “other changes in non-financial asset n.e.c.” in the “Other changes in assets account”. Unforeseen obsolescence is a synonym for " abnormal obsolescence".

Unforeseen obsolescence arises when the amount included in consumption of fixed capital for an asset’s normally expected obsolescence falls short of the amount required to cover its actual obsolescence

The programme targets adolescent girls (ages 10-19) at risk of child marriage or already in union, in 12 selected countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.

The largest global joint programme to accelerate the abandonment of FGM/C. Initiated in 2007, the programme focuses on 17 African countries and supports regional and global initiatives.

See hostile takeover.

Unfunded employee social insurance benefits are social benefits payable to their employees, their dependants or survivors by employers administering unfunded social insurance schemes

Plans that are financed directly from contributions from the plan sponsor or provider and/or the plan participant. Unfunded pension plans are said to be paid on a current disbursement method (also known as the pay as you go, PAYG, method). Unfunded plans may still have associated reserves to cover immediate expenses or smooth contributions within given time periods. Most OECD countries do not allow unfunded private pension plans.

This term refers to future liabilities of government under unfunded (pay-as-you-go) or partially funded public pension schemes.

In computer networking, unicast transmission is the sending of messages to a single network destination host on a packet switching network. The term unicast is formed in analogy to the term broadcast which means transmitting the same data to all possible destinations. Another multi-destination distribution method, multicasting, sends data only to interested destinations by using special address assignments.

UNICEF regional offices have identified specific goals and targets to work towards specific ‘headline results’. These results are internal measurements for critical development areas in the region. UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) headline results are: 1) Save New-borns, 2) Stop Stunting, 3) Educate All Girls and Boys, 4) End Child Marriage, 5) Stop Open Defecation and 6) End Polio.

Reserve that provides an allowance for losses on those investments where judgment of impairment cannot be made because of a lack of adequate operational experience.

Are those from an unidentified collection of human biological specimens.

Established in 1970 as a non-profit organization, is the Nation’s Emergency Medical Services Certification organization. The mission of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians has always been centered on protecting the public and advancing the EMS profession. It's mission is to provide a valid, uniform process to assess the knowledge and skills required for competent practice by EMS professionals throughout their careers, and to maintain a registry of certification status.