Statistical Terms Glossary

Organised collection of Codes that may be part of many parent/child relationships with other Codes in the scheme, as defined by one or more hierarchies of the scheme.

Hierarchy is a classification structure arranged in levels of detail from the broadest to the most detailed level. 

Method of registering, querying, and disseminating data or reference metadata by means of a central, service-based platform (the hub).

Construct that contains structures capable of providing identity to an object.

Procedure for entering a value for a specific data item where the response is missing or unusable. 

Ratio of the number of replaced values to the total number of values for a given variable. 

Data or metadata message that is used for changing a part of the content of a Data or Metadata Set.

Set of rules or other formal set of instructions assigning responsibility as well as the authority to an organisation for the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistics.

Arrangements or procedures for data sharing and coordination between data producing agencies.

Legal acts or other formal or informal agreements that assign responsibility as well as the authority to an Agency for the collection, processing, and dissemination of statistics.

Aggregation of institutional units on the basis of the type of producer and depending on their principal activity and function, which are considered to be indicative of their economic behaviour. 

Construct defining multi-lingual text for the same underlying Concept.

Ability to seamlessly share, join, cross-analyse, exchange and re-use data produced from different sources, and at different times, to provide richer information for improved decision making.

Construct that indicates whether an object is available in the metadata source that contains its identifier or whether the object itself is available elsewhere.

Construct that indicates whether the contained values of a container object is to be included or excluded from the valid list of values.

Descriptive information for an arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.

Set of tasks and duties performed, or meant to be performed, by one person, including for an employer or in self-employment

Classification of the working age population based on the person's relation to the labour market in a short reference period. 

System of communication used by a particular community or Country. 

Identifiable position to which codes in a scheme of codes are related.

Data Structure Definition (DSD) developed for the specific needs of one organisation only.

Construct that contains structures capable of providing a Maintenance Agency to an object. 

Organisation or other expert body responsible for the operational maintenance of commonly used metadata artefacts. 

Correspondence between two or more objects.

Data element that represents a simple aggregation and which takes one or more vectors as arguments and returns a scalar.

Error in reading, calculating or recording a numerical value.

Set of permissible values for one Component of a data or metadata structure.

Single value of the set of values for a Member Selection.

Construct comprised of one or more Object Type/Object Id(s) in order to uniquely identify an item in a collection of reference metadata.

Group of keys that identify items in a collection of reference metadata.