Statistical Terms Glossary

Are expressed as the number of discharges per 100 000 population.

Device which turns the water on and off to the individual circuits of sprinklers or drip emitters within an irrigation system.

Discharged patient from a hospital after having the diagnostic and curative health care regardless of the discharged case (cured or dead).

The rules the pension plan must follow when providing information on the plan operation to its members and the supervisory authority.

Discontinuers are students who enrol in a level, programme, or field of education for one or more reference periods and interrupt their studies for one or more reference periods before successfully completing the programme.
Discontinuers are therefore students who follow a reference period of enrolment with a reference period when they are not enrolled

A deduction from the list or advertised price of a good or a service that is available to specific customers under specific conditions.

Bond selling at a price less than its par value.

Amount below face value at which a security is traded.

Intermediary between central bank and banking system, providing liquidity and ensuring the efficient operation of the money market. Does not exist in the U.S. but does exist in the U.K., France, South Africa, and Singapore. In the U.K, a discount house tends to be larger than a bill broker. In France, the OPM is the basic intermediary and may be either a discount house (maison de reescompte) or other financial institution who is closely involved in the interbank market.

Note (i.e., short- or medium-term bond) issued at a discount from its face value. On maturity, the investor receives the full face value. The discount from par, thus, corresponds to the return on the investment.

An approach to setting access prices under which the access prices are explicitly set on the basis of the end-user or retail prices of the corresponding final services. The discount off retail prices is usually set as a fixed percentage of the retail price.

The discount rate is an interest rate used to convert a future income stream to its present value.

Interest is payment for the use of borrowed money. The discount rate is the rate at which central banks lend or discount eligible paper for deposit money banks. Also known as the bank rate

A discount store is a retailing establishment selling a range of rapid-turnover, cut-price goods and with virtually no floor-service at all.

A swap with a below-market rate.

Rediscount facility offered by central bank (Federal Reserve System in the U.S.).

Purchase of negotiable instruments where the buyer waives the right of recourse in respect of the seller of the instrument, to which the buyer would be entitled.

In foreign exchange refers to a situation where currency can be bought more cheaply for a future date than for immediate delivery. For example, if US$1 buys FF4 for delivery now, while it buys FF5
for delivery twelve months hence, then the franc is said to be at a discount against the U.S. dollar.

Debt acquired at a price lower than its nominal value.

Discounting (of natural assets) is a process of determining the present value (net worth) of assets by applying a discount rate to the expected net benefits from future uses of those assets.
The discount rate reflects the social preferences for current (as compared with future) uses.

These are persons who, while willing and able to engage in a job, are not seeking work or have ceased to seek work because they believe there are no suitable available jobs.

A discouraged worker is a person without work, currently available for work, but not seeking work because they believe that no suitable jobs are available. Discouraged workers are not included in the labour force.

Gross additions to the level of subsoil reserves due to the discovery of completely new reserves. In SEEA, not only additions to the stock of proven reserves but also additions to probable and possible reserves are also to be recorded.

Discrimination includes:(a) any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin, which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation; and(b) such other distinction, exclusion or preference which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation as may be determined by the Member State concerned after consultation with representative employers’ and workers’ organizations, where such exist, and with other appropriate bodies. Any distinction, exclusion or preference in respect of a particular job based on the inherent requirements thereof is not deemed to be discrimination.