Statistical Terms Glossary

Is the unit within the OECD responsible for the co- ordination of the Organisation’s programme of activities with non-Member countries.

Nurtures careers of excellence and leadership in science and technology for academically talented high school and college students.

An institutional unit has a centre of economic interest within a country when there exists some location – dwelling, place of production, or other premises – within the economic territory of the country on, or from, which the unit engages and intends to continue engaging, either indefinitely or over a finite but long period of time, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale. The locations need not to be fixed so long as it remains within the economic territory.

A team of people that promote collaboration and using best practices around a specific focus area to drive business results. This team could be staffed with full- or part-time members.

A pump consisting of rotating impeller enclosed in a housing and used to impart energy to a fluid through centrifugal force.

The internationally agreed classification of environmental protection activities. CEPA 2000 is a generic, multi-purpose, functional classification for environmental protection. It is used for classifying activities but also products, actual outlays (expenditure) and other transactions.

Are defined as wheat, coarse grains and rice.

Is considered a neurological disorder caused by a non-progressive brain injury or malformation that occurs while the child’s brain is under development.

Is the certificate of registry given to the informant, in the prescribed form, on registration of a death; or a coroner’s order in respect of an unnatural death for purposes of disposal of the corpse.

Certificate issued by the appropriate authorities confirming the competency or the efficiency of an officer of a ship in the respective grades and department.

Certificate of an interest-bearing time deposit with a bank.

Certificate of Registration ... The Deputy Registrar shall grant a CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY, provisional or permanent, upon the completion of registration of a vessel, and on the payment of the prescribed fees.

Zero coupon Treasury securities, with the coupon stripped. A wide variety of stripped Treasury certificates with animal names has been issued, including TIGRs (the first), ZEBRAs, COUGRs (Certificates of Government Receipts) and LIONs (Lehman Investment Opportunity Notes). DOGs, GATORs, RATs and EAGLEs are also found. The U.S. Treasury mundanely called its own stripped Treasury securities, Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities (STRIPS). Note that the French Treasury issued an equivalent bond, wittily called Fonds d'Etat Libres d'Intgrt Nominal.

A certificate issued by a bank acknowledging a deposit in that bank for a specified period of time at a specified rate of interest; CDs are essentially a form of negotiable time deposit (evidenced by the certificate).

Used by a party providing certification services to those who wish to use a digital signature to facilitate on-line communication and transaction. A certification authority verifies the identity of a subscriber, issues a certificate linking the person to a particular public key, and publishes the certificate, which can be checked by those who want to verify a digitally signed electronic communication.

Procedure by which certification body or entity gives written or equivalent assurance that a product, process or service conforms to specified requirements. Certification may be, asappropriate, based on a range of audit activities that may include continuous audit in the production chain.

A check certified to be good by the bank upon which it is drawn, by the signature of usually the cashier or paying teller with the word certified or accepted across the face of the check. Performance securities are often required in this form.

Seed that can be certified as meeting certain national standards as regards its physical and genetic purity.; Seed of a prescribed standard of quality, produced under a controlled multiplication scheme, either from basic seed or from a previous generation of certified seed.; The progeny of basic seed, produced under contract with selected seed growers under the supervision of a seed enterprise (public or private).

Is a person authorised by law (the physician who attended the deceased in his/her last illness; or the coroner for deaths of persons who were not attended during the last illness by a physician, or for unnatural deaths due to violence or accident) who issues a certificate, on the prescribed form, stating to the best of his/her knowledge and belief, the cause of death and other facts related to the event for submission to the local registrar.

The cessation of activities of a unit can occur either due to a (real) death of the unit, or due to other cessation by a merger, take-over, break-up or discontinuity point according to the continuity rules.

see chloro-fluorocarbons

An index is said to “drift” if it does not return to unity when prices in the current period return to their levels in the base period. Chain indices may drift when prices fluctuate over the periods they cover.

Joining together two indices that overlap in one period by rescaling one of them to make its value equal to that of the other in the same period, thus combining them into single time series. More complex methods may be used to link together indices that overlap by more than period.

Price indexes where the values of the aggregate index for two adjacent periods, calculated from the detailed price indexes, are based on the expenditure pattern from the first of the two periods, and where these index values are linked together in a chain to form the index.

The possibility of tracing a product all along the food/fish chain. A chain traceability system requires that a continuous record of all relevant information for tracing be maintained on a central database through the voluntary agreement of all industry and commercial parties involved in the chain... (para. 11).; What information should accompany the product from one point of the chain to the next, and in particular what data is transmitted and received, and how.(para.22).

Chained index weighting is an alternative way of weighting together the sub aggregates that form GDP. The key difference to the fixed-weight aggregation, used in most countries, is that the prices are continuously updated and that "substitution bias" is avoided and that measures are independent of the choice of base year.