Statistical Terms Glossary

Repayments of principal on a loan. Does not include interest payments.

The schedule for the repayment of principal and payment of interest on an ongoing basis. For loans, the schedule is normally included in an annex to the contract or can be estimated from the contract.

The gradual extinguishment of any amount over a period of time (e.g., the retirement of a debt).
2. A reduction of the book value of a fixed asset.

The ratio of the current value, in terms of the U.S. dollar, of the principal outstanding of a loan at the commencement of business of a day to the corresponding total of withdrawals from the Loan Account, net of recalls for amortization.

Applied on a fish stock, it is the proportion of the numbers or biomass removed by fishing.; Ratio between the number of individuals caught and the total number of individuals dead, over a certain period of time, that is, E = C/D.

Occurs when the composite leading indicator (CLI) is adjusted to ensure that its cyclical amplitude on average agrees with that of detruded reference series.

An accident involving an aircraft on the national aircraft register of a state.

A species of fish, such as salmon, that spawn in freshwater then migrate into the ocean to grow to maturity.

Fish that spend their adult life in the sea but swim upriver to freshwater spawning grounds in order to reproduce.

Children aged 6-59 months with hemoglobin level less than 11.0 g\dl according to WHO.

Women aged 15-49 years with hemoglobin level less than 11.0 g\dl for pregnant women and less than 12.0 g/dl for non pregnant women

The main aggregates, the expenditure categories, the expenditure groups and expenditure classes for which the results of a comparison are published.

The Analytical Database (ADB) is the database maintained by the OECD Secretariat and underlying the projections presented in the OECD Economic Outlook

An analytical framework describes the conceptual system of definitions and classifications of the related data.

For more refined analysis of the production process, use is made of an analytical unit of production: this unit, which is not always observable, is the unit of homogeneous production, defined as covering no secondary activities.

The OECD’s Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development (R&D) database

Are foreigners admitted by a country other than their own because of their historical, ethnic or other ties with that country, who, by virtue of those ties, are immediately granted the right of long-term residence in that country or who, having the right to citizenship in that country, become citizens within a short period after admission.

A place where boats can be anchored. Area of water in which vessels can anchor.

Ancillary activities are undertaken to support principal and secondary productive activities of a unit by providing goods or services entirely or primarily for the use of that entity, such as bookkeeping, transportation, storage, purchasing, sales promotion, cleaning, repair and maintenance, security etc. The output is always intended for intermediate consumption within the same unit and is therefore usually not recorded separately. Although most ancillary activities produce services, some goods-producing activities may, by exception, be regarded as ancillary. The goods thus produced, however, may not become a physical part of the output of the main productive activities. Ancillary activities are usually fairly small-scale compared with the principal activity they support

Is a subsidiary corporation, wholly owned by a parent corporation, whose productive activities are ancillary in nature: that is, they are strictly confined to providing services to the parent corporation, or other ancillary corporations owned by the same parent corporation.

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.