Statistical Terms Glossary

Is an officer of a county, district, municipality, etc, holding inquest on bodies of persons who may have died by violence or accident (unnatural deaths).

Debt instrument issued by a private corporation.

Charge or credit card issued to the employee of a corporation, where the employer plays the annual fee and some or all of the charges.

Are defined as corporations, joint stock companies, co-operatives, limited liability partnerships and other financial and non-financial enterprises which by virtue of legislation, administrative regulations or registration, are recognised as business entities independent of their owners.

Procedures and processes according to which an organisation is directed and controlled. The corporate governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among the different participants in the organisation – such as the board, managers, shareholders and other stakeholders – and lays down the rules and procedures for decision-making.

Achieving parity at the institutional level.

Person who acquires a significant portion of a company's stock, with a view to takeover.

Rights held by a partner in a corporation.

The business sector

A company that acts as a trustee.

Includes corporate, non-profit institution and household environmental expenditure whose primary aim is to protect the environment and manage its resources. Statistics on this topic usually require the use of specific surveys of establishments in different sectors and industries.

In the legal sense, corporations may be described by different names: corporations, incorporated enterprises, public limited companies, public corporations, private companies, joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and so on. In the SNA, the term corporation covers legally constituted corporations and also cooperatives, limited liability partnerships, notional resident units and quasi corporations. The term corporation is used more broadly than in just the legal sense. In general, all entities that are: capable of generating a profit or other financial gain for their owners, recognized at law as separate legal entities from their owners who enjoy limited liability, set up for purposes of engaging in market production.

Load-bearing axis of the vertebral centra. It represents the main structure for counting the annuli.

Corrective rape is a form of rape of perpetrated against someone on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It is intended to force the victim to conform to heterosexuality or normative gender identity.

A sub-system of controlled flood irrigation. Corrugations between crop rows are fed at the head by flows from a furrow long enough to wet laterally the ridges situated between the corrugations. In soils with a large natural slope, corrugations with a small longitudinal slope appear to be parallel to the contours.

There are many different definitions of the concept. One is the, “active or passive misuse of the powers of Public officials (appointed or elected) for private financial or other benefits”.

Degradation pricing techniques based on the costs of maintaining an adequate standard of environmental functions. They comprise avoidance costs and restoration (remedial) costs.

Cost functions plot, for each type of measure, the cost per unit of avoided pollutant against the volume of avoided pollutants.

See carrying cost.