Statistical Terms Glossary

Bringing together data from more than one source. 

Ensuring that systems are using the same set of definitions, classifications and methodology, as well as technologically compatible platforms allowing for full harmonization of interfaces and access protocols.

Attribute of an observation unit, or count, or other item derived from such attributes. 

Web-based interface designed to make it easier to find data.

An individual or organization providing data to a national statistical office or other producer of official statistics.

Pulls data from NSO websites re-packages and re-sells without having to engage in any specific relationship with the NSO.

An interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from many structural and unstructured data. 

Collection of programs that manage the database structure and control access to data stored in a database. 

A collection of data.

National statistical system in which the responsibility for compiling official statistics rests with several national or regional government ministries, departments or agencies as well as with the national statistical office.

Measures applied to eliminate (or at least significantly reduce) the risk of releasing data about individual legal or natural persons. 

Activity of making official statistics, statistical analyses, statistical services and metadata accessible to users.

Representation that goes beyond static forms, such as printed media. Its defining characteristics are animation, interaction and real-time data access. 

Conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization and whose role is to determine how the organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. 

Online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities.

Register of agricultural holdings maintained for administrative or statistical purposes.

Comprises two independent layers of producers of official statistics, one at the federal/central level and the other at the sub-national level. 

The set of enterprises that are not in the informal sector and are not household unincorporated non-market enterprises.

(same as) survey frame.

Activities carried out under the control and responsibility of institutional units that use inputs of labour, capital, and goods and services to produce outputs of goods and services.

Quality management system model or standard that can be applied to any type of organization.

Specialised platform for the dissemination and visualisation of geospatial data. Data are combined with maps typically from publicly available sources such as Google Maps.

Data that combine location information (usually coordinates on the earth), attribute information (the characteristics of the object, event, or phenomena concerned), and often but not always, temporal information (the time or life span at which the location and attributes exist).

Government unit in its role as an enterprise.

Legal entity that is established by political/government process and that has legislative, judicial or executive authority over other institutional units within a given area.

Collaborative software that can be used to exchange knowledge and expertise. 

Group of persons who share the same living accommodation, who pool some, or all, of their income and wealth and who consume certain types of goods and services collectively, mainly housing and food.

Set of households with characteristics required for sampling and contact purposes available as a frame for household surveys.

Register of households maintained for administrative or statistical purposes.

Survey in which the sampled population and/or the set of observation units are households.