Statistical Terms Glossary

One of the table of the SERIEE system that describes the way environmental protection expenditure are financed by the various categories of units.

The extent to which a borrower has its debt -- and hence its need to find new finance -- reduced, as a result of debt reduction or restructuring.

Pertinent statements of fact. Audit findings emerge by a process of comparing what should be with what is.

An effort to steer aggregate demand and output toward a target level through monetary and fiscal instruments.

A non-regular open market operation executed by the Eurosystem mainly in order to deal with unexpected liquidity fluctuations in the market.

See Inventories of finished goods

Fires and explosions that occur in railway vehicles (including their load) when they are running between the departure and the destination stations, including when stopped at the departure station, the destination station or intermediate stops, as well as during re-marshalling operations.

A hardware- and/or software-based system that is used as an interface between the internet and a computer system to monitor and filter incoming and outgoing communications.

The term firm usually refers to a market business unit. It is often used as synonym for company or unincorporated business.

See bought deal.

A number of techniques that are, or contain elements related to traceability, are generally utilized at industrial level (e.g. FIFO: First In First Out).

The entry point into the health care system, at the interface between services and community. Where the first level of care satisfies a number of quality criteria it is called primary care.

A single company develops its own rules, analyzes its performance, and reports on its compliance.

“First-generation” are those students who reported in the Programme for International Student Evaluation (PISA) that they were born in the country of assessment but whose parents were born in another country.