Statistical Terms Glossary

Gender stereotype that limits women’s gaining of personal abilities, pursuing their professional careers and making choices about their lives and life plans.

An elementary index that constitutes the harmonic average counterpart to the Carli index.

An elementary index that constitutes the harmonic average counterpart to the Dutot index.

Is the measure of prices used by the Governing Council for the purpose of assessing price stability.

The commodity structure of external trade flows of goods is analysed using various internationally adopted commodity classifications which have different levels of detail and are based on different classification criteria.

The ratio of economic yield of a crop to total dry matter at harvest.

It refers to the area from which a crop is gathered.

Total harvested irrigated area for the crop for the given year. Areas under double cropping should be counted twice. For permanent crops data generally refer to the total planted area.

Total harvested irrigated crop area. It refers to the crops grown under full control irrigation. Areas under double irrigated cropping (same area cultivated and irrigated twice a year) are counted twice. Therefore the total area may be larger than the full/ partial control equipped area, which gives an indication of the cropping intensity. The total is only given if information on all irrigated crops in the country is available.

A person responsible for the management of the harvesting of fresh fruits and vegetables.

In the agrofood chain, harvesting is the stage between the phase of actual agricultural production and that of grain processing or, more broadly, treatment of the produce.

Is the capacity of the fishing vessel or fleet of vessels to harvest fish, usually expressed in terms of some measure of vessel size, such as gross tonnage, hold capacity, or horsepower.

Not to be confused with a management strategy. A harvesting strategy is a plan, under input or output control, for working out how the allowable catch from a stock will be calculated each year e.g. as a constant proportion of the estimated biomass.

An establishment where fish eggs are hatched and where the young are retained and fed for varying periods, sometimes for several years, until they have matured and been bred for fish-cultural purposes or until they have achieved a size suitable for stocking in angling waters or a size suitable for market in a commercial operation.

The process during which, in locusts and grasshoppers, the young hoppers burst their way out of the egg shells, wriggle up through the froth plug to the soil surface.

Unit of measurement of traffic flow representing the movement of a hauled vehicle over one kilometre.
Note: Railcars movements are included. Shunting movements are excluded.

Unit of measure representing any movement of a hauled vehicle over one kilometre.

Hay meadows can be upland or lowland types, they share many similar species and can be found in similar locations, for example lowland hay meadows occur in the uplands and vice versa.