Statistical Terms Glossary

The sum of direct use value and indirect use value.

A used asset is one which has already been acquired by at least one resident or non-resident user, or produced on own account. A used asset will usually be exchanged at less than the price when it was first acquired. It is a synonym for “second-hand asset

Payments made by consumers to providers of government services.

The cost incurred over a period of time by the owner of a fixed asset or consumer durable as a consequence of using it to provide a flow of capital or consumption services. User cost consists of the depreciation on the asset or durable (measured at current prices and not at historic cost) plus the capital, or interest, cost.

User cost is the concept proposed for the valuation of the depletion of mineral deposits according to which a time—bound stream of net revenues from the sale of an exhaustible natural resource is converted into a permanent income stream by investing part of the revenues, that is, the user cost allowance, over the lifetime of the resource. The remaining amount of the revenue is regarded as true income

The user cost of capital is the unit cost for the use of a capital asset for one period--that is, the price for employing or obtaining one unit of capital services. The user cost of capital is also referred to as the “rental price” of a capital good, or the “capital service price".

Software and hardware components through which a user can interact with a system.

The dynamic modification of a user interface to only show actions that the user is entitled to perform is often regarded as an aspect of authorization.

All resource users should pay for the full long-term marginal social cost of the use of a resources and related services including any associated treatment cost.

Refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users. The term user generated content entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications including problem processing, news, gossip and research reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public.

In computing, a user is a person who uses a computer or Internet service. A user may have a user account that identifies the user by a username (also user name)

The user-pays principle is the variation of the polluter-pays principle that calls upon the user of a natural resource to bear the cost of running down natural capital

The term uses refers to transactions in the current accounts that reduce the amount of economic value of a unit or sector (for example, wages and salaries are a use for the unit or sector that must pay them); by convention, uses are put on the left side of the account.

An approach to CPIs in which the consumption in some period is identified with the consumption goods and services actually used up by a household to satisfy their needs and wants (as distinct from the consumption goods and services acquired). In this approach, the consumption of consumer durables in a given period is measured by the values of the flows of services provided by the stocks of durables owned by households. These values may be estimated by the user costs.

The uses of value added quadrant (of an input- output table) shows those production costs of producers other than intermediate consumption

The usual environment required to distinguish a visitor from all other travelers within a location is difficult to define in precise terms. Generally speaking, it corresponds to the geographical boundaries within which an individual displaces himself/herself within his/her regular routine of life. As stated in the Recommendations on Tourism Statistics, the usual environment of a person consists of the direct vicinity of his/her home and place of work or study and other places frequently visited.

Identifies the most common weekly working schedule over a selected period of a person in employment.

Is defined for census purposes as the place at which the person lives at the time of the census, and has been there for some time or intends to stay there for some time.

Often defined as the satisfaction derived from consumption of a good or service.

Fee paid for use of a Euronote facility.

Suspensions of killed or attenuated microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, or rickettsiae), antigenic proteins derived from them, or synthetic constructs, administered for the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious and other diseases.

Edits checks that are made between fields in a particular record.
This includes the checking of every field of every record to ascertain whether it contains a valid entry and the checking of entries in a certain predetermined combination of fields to ascertain whether the entries are consistent with each other.

Evaluation of an individual’s achievement of learning objectives using a variety of assessment methods (written, oral and practical tests/examinations, projects and portfolios) not presuming participation in an education programme.

Valuables are produced assets that are not used primarily for production or consumption, that are expected to appreciate or at least not to decline in real value, that do not deteriorate over time under normal conditions and that are acquired and held primarily as stores of value.

Under the SDDS, valuation refers to such items as:
1) the exchange rates or conversion factors used to convert foreign-currency-denominated assets and liabilities into the national currency equivalent;
2) whether transactions are recorded at market prices, face or nominal value vs. issue or discounted prices;
3) adjustments to convert CIF imports to an FOB basis;
4) adjustments to align data with balance of payments concepts as well as the frequency of any revaluation (e.g., daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly).