Statistical Terms Glossary

It refers to agricultural services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. E-agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of new (innovative) ways to use existing or emerging ICT.; E-agriculture involves designing, developing and applying innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) – including digital technologies – in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture, including fisheries, forestry and livestock.; The use of new information and communication technologies applications in the farm sector.

e-Agriculture is a global Community of Practice, where people from all over the world exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainable agriculture and rural development.

Early childhood education provides learning and educational activities with a holistic approach to support children’s early cognitive, physical, social and emotional development and introduce young children to organized instruction outside of the family context to develop some of the skills needed for academic readiness and to prepare them for entry into primary education.

Is the death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of less than 20 completed weeks of gestation.

Involves strategies which aim to intervene early in the life of a problem and provide individually tailored solutions. It typically focuses on populations at a higher risk of developing problems, or on families that are experiencing problems that have not yet become well established or entrenched.

See Early retirement

Marriage of individuals whose level of physical, emotional, sexual and psychosocial development makes them unable to freely and fully consent to marriage.

See retractable bond.

A situation when an individual decides to retire earlier and draw the pension benefits earlier than their normal retirement age.

An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, disaster risk assessment, communication and preparedness activities systems and processes that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events.

Taxes raised and allocated to specific expenditure programs, often through an extra-budgetary fund.

Loans and investments

The concept of earnings, as applied in wages statistics, relates to gross remuneration in cash and in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for time not worked, such as annual vacation, other type of paid leave or holidays. Earnings exclude employers’ contributions in respect of their employees paid to social security and pension schemes and also the benefits received by employees under these schemes. Earnings also exclude severance and termination pay.

Statistics of earnings (wages and salaries) should relate to employees’ gross remuneration, that is, the total before any deductions are made by the employer in respect of taxes, contributions of employees to social security and pension schemes, life insurance premiums, union dues and other obligations of employees.

Earnings per share is a company's profit divided by the total shares outstanding

The profit of a corporation divided by the number of shares outstanding.

See United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Earthwatch is a general term for the global environmental assessment efforts of the United Nations system as co-ordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme to improve the gathering and sharing of environmental information and provide early warning of environmental problems requiring international action

Is a vast, geographically diverse region that stretches from the Red Sea in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south.