Statistical Terms Glossary

Processes by which societies deliberately transmit their accumulated information, knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values, skills, competencies and behaviours across generations. It involves communication designed to bring about learning.

The inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools promotes uni-versal primary completion, is cost-effective and contributes to the elimination of discrimination.

Education designed to facilitate the learning of individuals who, for a wide variety of reasons, require additional support and adaptive pedagogical methods in order to participate and meet learning objectives in an educational programme. Reasons may include (but are not limited to) disadvantages in physical, behavioural, intellectual, emotional and social capacities. Educational programmes in special needs education may follow a similar curriculum as that offered in the parallel regular education system

The processes by which societies deliberately transmit their accumulated information, knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values, skills, competencies and behaviours across generations. It involves communication designed to bring about learning.

Persons enrolled and/or registered in a programme of education.

Organisation that provides education, either as a main or ancillary objective. This can be a public educational institution as well as a private enterprise, non-governmental organization or non-educational public body.

It refers to a wide range of pertinent activities such as enrolment in school or university; attending classes and lectures; having breaks in educational facilities; taking part in cultural and political activities; doing home-works; ancillary – complementary educational activities (additional courses during free time outside the official education hours); work related orientations (training courses); and movement from one place to another for purposes related to carrying out such activities.

Deliberate activity, involving some form of communication intended to bring about learning.

Percentage of the adult population (25 years old and over) that has completed a certain level of education defined according to the International Standard Classification of Education.

Percentage distribution of population aged 25 years and above according to the highest level of education attained or completed with reference to ISCED.

Percentage distribution of population aged 25 years and above according to the highest level of education attained or completed with reference to ISCED.

Attendance means registering the person in any formal education stage irrespective of whether it took the form of continuous attendance or distant learning. Formal education stages include the elementary stage, preparatory stage, (both of which are referred to as the basic stage), secondary stage, and higher education stage.

They have as their sole or main purpose the provision of education. Such institutions are normally accredited or sanctioned by some public authorities. While the majority of educational institutions fall under the jurisdiction of, or are operated by, education authorities, other public agencies dealing with such areas as health, training, labour, justice, defence, social services, etc. may also be involved. Educational institutions may also be operated by private organizations such as religious bodies, special-interest groups or private educational and training institutions, both profit and non-profit making.

Is a broad term covering three categories. 1- Teaching staff is those persons who participate directly in instructing pupils (see Teaching Staff). 2- Other pedagogical and administrative personnel include headmasters, school administrators, supervisors, counsellors, school health personnel, librarians, curriculum developers, as well as educational administrators at the local, regional and central levels. 3- Support personnel include clerical personnel, building operations and maintenance staff, security personnel, transportation workers, catering staff etc.

Coherent set or sequence of educational activities designed and organized to achieve pre-determined learning objectives or accomplish a specific set of educational tasks over a sustained period. Within an educational programme, educational activities may also be grouped into sub-components variously described in national contexts as ‘courses’, ‘modules’, ‘units’, and/or ‘subjects’. A programme may have major components not normally characterized as courses, units, or modules – for example, play-based activities, periods of work experience, research projects and the preparation of dissertations.

Educational qualifications are the degrees, diplomas, certificates, professional titles and so forth that an individual has acquired whether by full-time study, part-time study or private study, whether conferred in the home country or abroad, and whether conferred by educational authorities, special examining bodies or professional bodies.
The acquisition of an educational qualification therefore implies the successful completion of a course of study or training programme

A form of taxation of pension plans, whereby contributions are exempt, investment income and capital gains of the pension fund are also exempt and benefits are taxed from personal income taxation.

The fact that the future benefits to be provided by an asset are one year closer at the end of the period than at the beginning. Assimilated to the return to capital and net operating surplus.

See Control of enterprises

Rates that take account of price level differences between trading partners. Movements in real effective exchange rates provide an indication of the evolution of a country’s aggregate external price competitiveness.

That part of rainfall which contributes to runoff. In some procedures the prompt subsurface runoff is entirely excluded from direct runoff. In such cases, the effective rainfall is equal to rainfall excess.

It means the extent to which the activity's stated objectives have been met.

Obtaining optimal benefits for a given set of inputs, or ‘doing the most with what we have’; this can be measured at various levels: the individual fisher or vessel, the fleet, the fishery as a whole, or the coastal region, depending on what level is appropriate. (For example, from the perspective of society as a whole, efficiency may be measured at the scale of what is best for the on-shore economy and relevant coastal communities.)

Efficiency means achieving maximum output from a given level of resources used to carry out an activity.

Efficiency refers to the degree to which a production process reflects ‘best practice’, either in an engineering sense (‘technical efficiency’) or in an economic sense (‘allocative efficiency’).

The efficiency of nitrogen use in agriculture indicator measures the physical nitrogen input/output ratio.