Statistical Terms Glossary

An unincorporated enterprise that is a household.

A household unincorporated enterprise that is producing for the market.

A group of establishments engaged in the same, or similar, kinds of activity.

An entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.

An international organization that involves two or more countries working on issues of common interest and that has been established by a treaty that acts as the charter founding the organization. 

A financial institution that has been established, or chartered, by more than one country, and hence is subject to international law.

 A citizen-based organization independent of government involvement, with an international membership, scope, or presence, mobilizing resources and acting as implementer and catalyst to support its members and others.

A body with an international membership, scope, or presence that promotes cooperation and coordination between or among its members.

An international body established between inter-governmental organizations, supranational organizations, national bodies, corporations, philanthropic foundations, and/or local and national civil society organizations working towards a similar or shared goal. 

The international organizations, or structural entities thereof, involved primarily or exclusively in the development, production and dissemination of official statistics at global, regional and sub-regional levels.

Hardware, software and services to maintain corporate web sites, intranets, and extranets, as well as web-hosting services and web software application development tools. 

Enterprise, or part of an enterprise, that is situated in a single location and in which only a single productive activity is carried out or in which the principal productive activity accounts for most of the value-added.

Any kind of IT system that stores and retrieves knowledge, improves collaboration, locates knowledge sources, mines repositories for hidden knowledge, captures and uses knowledge, or in some other way enhances the knowledge management process. 

Web-based application that provides a single point of access to organizational knowledge, integrating knowledge repositories, expert directories, collaboration tools, and other knowledge-intensive applications.

Older transaction processing system that continues to be used to avoid the cost of replacement or redesign.

An entity whose existence is recognized by law or society independently of the persons, or other entities, that may own or control it.

Method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked through semantic queries, connecting related data that weren’t formerly related. 

Automated transmission of data between systems in a standard format without human intervention.

Data generated by aggregating microdata according to a well-defined statistical methodology. 

Practice of retaining and transferring knowledge within an organization by mentoring and late-career knowledge transfer to develop talent, skills and careers.

Data on individual units. 

Dataset containing microdata.

Self-evaluation tool to assess the level of organizational maturity against a set of pre-defined criteria. 

An international financial institution that provides to its member states financing and professional advice for the purpose of development.

The main producer of official statistics in a country and/or the organization responsible for coordinating all activities related to the development, production, and dissemination of official statistics in the national statistical system.

Comprises the national statistical office and all other producers of official statistics in the country.

Hardware and software resources that enable network connectivity and communications that provide the communication path and services between users, processes, applications, services and external networks and the internet. 

Economic activities that are missing from the basic data used to compile the national accounts because they are underground, illegal, informal, household production for own final use, or due to deficiencies in the basic data collection system. 

Legal or social entity created for the purpose of producing goods and services but whose status does not permit it to be a source of income, profit or other financial gain for the units that establish, control or finance it. 

(same as) non-profit institution.