Statistical Terms Glossary

Is free software developed by the World Bank. It supports questionnaire design with a full range of standard questions, nesting, cascading and linked questions. It supports validation of answers and direction of interview flow using .Net; use macros, calculated variables and lookup tables to construct sophisticated data validation algorithms. It enables collection of data offline on tablets (CAPI), online using web-interface (CAWI), from phone interviews (CATI), and conduct of mixed-mode surveys. It can scan barcodes, capture pictures and audio, and record information from external sensors. It facilitates collection of detailed GIS information on locations, distances, and areas, application of geofencing and guidance of interviewers to the point of interview offline using high-resolution satellite images and built-in GPS receivers.

Is a software system developed by Statistics Netherlands used for statistical and scientific research. It is used for creating and processing computer-assisted surveys of varying size and complexity and supports questionnaire design and all types of computer-assisted data collection.  It can be used to create small and simple questionnaires and large, complex and hierarchically structured questionnaire models and to link them to available external data files. In addition to questionnaire design, Blaise provides data entry facilities for all the various interview modes; namely, computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI), computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), computer-assisted self-interview (CASI), computer-assisted web interview (CAWI), all of which can be combined within a survey. For telephone interviewing (CATI), a complete management system is available to schedule calls to respondents automatically, and follow-up calls after busy or no-answer responses. System developers can customize or expand the functionality of Blaise applications to use in their own applications. 

The Census and Survey Processing System is a public domain data processing software package. The main purpose of this software framework is to design application for data collection and processing. 

Is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis.

Is a general-purpose statistical software package whose capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression, and custom programming.

Is a software suite that can mine, alter, manage and retrieve data from a variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it.

Is a program for statistical analysis in social science.

The type of statistical unit and the particular population of these units from which a survey sample is drawn.

(same as) target population

Information retrieval tool that connects knowledge seekers with experts and answers.

Statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series.

Fluctuations in a time series that exhibit a regular pattern at a particular time during the course of a year which are similar from one year to another.

Data that are initially collected by a public or private organization for administrative or commercial purposes, not for the purpose of producing official statistics, and that are subsequently acquired and re-used by a producer of official statistics.

Organization that produces secondary data.

Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. 

Online service, platform or site that focuses on building and reflecting social networks or social relations among people who share interests or activities. 

Survey in which the content of the survey primarily concerns social conditions.

A program or group of programs designed for end-users.

Body established by statistical law, by government or by a national statistical office, composed of representatives of the main categories of private and public users, with the mandate to advise the chief statistician and the government on issues of strategic importance to official statistics.

Ensuring that individual data collected by, or in possession of, a producer of official statistic are used exclusively for statistical purposes and in such a way that natural or legal persons cannot be identified, either directly or indirectly.

Data collected, processed or disseminated by a statistical organization for statistical purposes.

A statistical register containing agricultural holdings identified for statistical purposes.

National legal framework governing the development, production and dissemination of official statistics. 

Ability to understand and reason with statistical data.

Organization, or unit within an organization, whose primary role is the production of official statistics.

Output from a statistical process accessible by the users.

Activity that is carried out by a national statistical office or other producer of official statistics and that is aimed at producing statistics.

Compendium of statistical information dealing with a wide range of development pertinent topics.  

Statistical output in the form of aggregate datasets and tables.

Principles governing the development, production and dissemination of official statistics and the institutional environment within which a national or regional statistical system operates.