Statistical Terms Glossary

Rules agreed at the onset of developing a management plan about what management actions will be taken in light of the level of performance relative to reference limits.

In the context of the HIPC Initiative, the point at which a country’s eligibility for assistance is determined by the IMF and World Bank Executive Boards on the basis of a debt-sustainability analysis and three years of sound performance under IMF- and World Bank-supported adjustment programs. The international community enters into a commitment at the decision point to deliver assistance at the completion point, provided that the debtor adheres to its policy commitments.

A key aspect in changing gender relations at individual, household, group, village, and societal levels.

Is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help you make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives.

In 1993 the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which serves as a complement to CEDAW in efforts to eliminate violence against women. The Declaration defines “violence against women” as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. It establishes that violence against women shall be understood to encompass, but not be limited to physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, within the general community and perpetrated or condoned by the state. Finally, it argues that states should condemn violence against women and should not invoke any custom, tradition, or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination.

The Declaration on the Human Environment was issued by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 5 to 16 June 1972

Deconcentration is the policy of breaking up and divesting operations of large firms in order to reduce the degree of concentration in an industry.

De-concentration refers to demographic events involving one enterprise before and more than one enterprise after the events by break-ups and split-offs. The term may also be used to denote that the population of enterprises gets more owners or is spread over a larger number of enterprise groups.

Are budgetary payments paid to eligible recipients which are not linked to current production of specific commodities or livestock numbers or the use of specific factors of production.

A line specially built to allow traffic at speeds equal to or greater than 250 km/h for the main segments.
Note: High-speed lines may include connecting lines, in particular connecting segments into town centre stations located on them, on which speeds may take account of local conditions.

Deductible value added tax (VAT) is the VAT payable on purchases of goods or services intended for intermediate consumption, gross fixed capital formation or for resale which a producer is permitted to deduct from his own VAT liability to the government in respect of VAT invoiced to his customers.

Deduction to stock level is a negative change in the stock of a non produced environmental asset, in physical or monetary units.

A method in which, a missing or inconsistent value can be deduced with certainty, often based on the pattern of responses given to other items on the questionnaire.

A very active market.

Great expanses of sediment-covered, basaltic crust. The form and structure of these basins is quite different from either that of the continental shelves or the continents themselves. The floor of the world’s oceans, like its continents, has its own character and features.

Deep pockets is an expression used to describe the idea that extensive financial and other resources of large firms or conglomerates can be used to sell below cost for extended periods of time.
In this view, deep pockets are thought to give such firms an unfair advantage over competitors particularly if the practice of selling at prices below costs imposes losses and drives out competing firms.