Statistical Terms Glossary

Bill which matures at sight or whose maturity is less than the period making possible its collection in good time, necessitating immediate presentation for payment.

A method of imputation in which donor records are taken from the current deck of sample data (cold deck, in contrast, refers to the method of imputation in which the donor record comes from past survey data.

Short-term international capital movements, motivated by interest rate differentials or revaluation hopes/devaluation fears.

Hoteling rent is the net return realized from the sale of a natural resource under particular conditions of long—term market equilibrium. It is defined as the revenue received minus all marginal costs of resource exploitation, exploration and development including a normal return to fixed capital employed.

A selected stationary access site in a pre-defined city where there is mobile network coverage. E.g.: pre-selected hotspots must be discussed and agreed on before the start of hotspot drive assignment on data services key performance indicators (KPIs).

Includes all payments made directly to the worker, before any deductions for workers’ contributions to social security and pension schemes, life and health insurance premiums, union dues and other obligations, income-tax liabilities, and so on.

Are generally the hours actually worked plus the hours paid for but not worked, such as paid annual leave, paid public holidays, paid sick leave, paid meal breaks and time spent travelling between the home and the workplace.

Statistics on the number of hours worked should include: hours actually worked during normal hours of work; time worked in addition to hours worked during normal periods of work, and generally paid at higher than normal rates (overtime); time spent at the place of work on work such as preparation of the work place, repairs and maintenance, preparation and cleaning of tools, and the preparation of receipts, time sheets and reports; time spent at the place of work waiting or standing by for such reasons as lack of supply of work, breakdown of machinery, or accidents, or time spent at the place of work during which no work is done but for which payment is made under a guaranteed employment contract; time corresponding to short rest periods at the work place, including tea and coffee breaks. Statistics of hours worked should exclude: hours paid for but not worked, such as paid annual leave, paid public holidays, paid sick leave; meal breaks; time spent on travel from home to work and vice versa

Total hours worked are the aggregate number of hours actually worked during the period in employee and self-employment jobs.

A building usually established for the residence of one household or more. The house may be comprised of single story or more that is utilized by a single household. Nevertheless, if the house is divided into housing units each of which has its own utilities and occupied by a different household, each housing unit would be classified as an apartment.

Arrangements made by persons, individually or in groups, for providing themselves with food or other essentials for living.

A household may be either: (a) A one-person household, that is to say, a person who makes provision for his or her own food or other essentials for living without combining with any other person to form part of a multi-person household; or (b) A multi-person household, that is to say, a group of two or more persons
living together who make common provision for food or other essentials for living. The persons in the group may pool their resources and have a common budget; they may be related or unrelated persons or a combination of persons both related and unrelated. This arrangement exemplifies the “housekeeping” concept.

Actual final consumption of households is the value of the consumption goods and services acquired by households, whether by purchase in general, or by transfer from government units or NPISHs, and used by them for the satisfaction of their needs and want

Sample surveys of households in which the households are asked to provide data, or estimates, of the amounts they spend on consumption goods and services and for other purposes over a given period of time.

The types of household to be distinguished could be:
(a) One-person household;
(b) Nuclear household, defined as a household consisting entirely of a single family nucleus. It may be classified into:
(i) Married couple family:
a. With child(ren);
b. Without child(ren);
(ii) Partner in consensual union (cohabiting partner):
a. With child(ren);
b. Without child(ren);
(iii) Father with child(ren);
(iv) Mother with child(ren);
(c) Extended household, defined as a household consisting of any one of the following:
(i) A single family nucleus and other persons related to the nucleus, for example, a father with child(ren) and other relative(s) or a married couple with other relative(s) only;
(ii) Two or more family nuclei related to each other without any other persons, for example, two or more married couples with (or without) child(ren) only;
(iii) Two or more family nuclei related to each other plus other persons related to at least one of the nuclei, for example, two or more married couples with other relative(s) only;
(iv) Two or more persons related to each other, none of World Health Organization [WHO]m cons International Telecommunication Union test a family nucleus;
(d) Composite household, defined as a household consisting of any of the following:
(i) A single family nucleus plus other persons, some of World Health Organization [WHO]m are related to the nucleus and some of World Health Organization [WHO]m are not, for example, mother with child(ren) and other relatives and non-relatives;
(ii) A single family nucleus plus other persons, none of World Health Organization [WHO]m is related to the nucleus, for example, father with child(ren) and non-relatives;
(iii) Two or more family nuclei related to each other plus other persons, some of World Health Organization [WHO]m are related to at least one of the nuclei and some of World Health Organization [WHO]m are not related to any of the nuclei, for example, two or more couples with other relatives and non-relatives only;
(iv) Two or more family nuclei related to each other plus other persons, none of World Health Organization [WHO]m is related to any of the nuclei, for example, two or more married couples one or more of which has child(ren) and non-relatives;
(v) Two or more family nuclei not related to each other, with or without any other persons;
(vi) Two or more persons related to each other but none of World Health Organization [WHO]m cons International Telecommunication Union the a family nucleus, plus other unrelated persons;
(vii) Non-related persons only.

Consists of the expenditure, including expenditure whose value must be estimated indirectly, incurred by resident households on individual consumption goods and services, including those sold at prices that are not economically significant and including consumption goods and services acquired abroad.

Household production for own use comprise those activities that are carried out by household unincorporated enterprises that are not involved in market production. By definition, such enterprises are excluded from the informal sector.

Household saving is defined in the OECD's Economic Outlook as household sector saving as a per cent of household sector disposable income.

Household unincorporated market enterprises are created for the purpose of producing goods or services for sale or barter on the market.

They can be engaged in virtually any kind of productive activity and they include unincorporated partnerships but the liability of the partners for the debts of the businesses must be unlimited for the partnerships to be treated as unincorporated enterprises.

Household waste refers to waste material usually generated in the residential environment. Waste with similar characteristics may be generated in other economic activities and can thus be treated and disposed of together with household waste

Total number of households living directly on earnings from fully or partially controlled irrigation schemes.

The individual (male or female) who are not worked and not regulated in a regular study and worked at home in order to serve the household and does not include the paid housekeeping service for others, as this type of service is within the work definition.

Unremunerated work of maintaining a household that is performed by household members.

A housing census is the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing and publishing or otherwise disseminating statistical data pertaining, at a specified time, to all living quarter, and occupants thereof in a country or in a well delimited part of a country.

The amount paid periodically (weekly, monthly, etc.) for the space occupied by the household.

At the highest level, people are divided into three categories: People living in: conventional dwellings, non-conventional dwellings, and those living in households in collective living quarters.

Tenure refers to the arrangements under which the household occupies all or part of a housing unit. Types of tenure include ownership by a member of the household, rental of all or part of the housing unit by a member of the household, etc.

A housing unit is a separate and independent place of abode intended for habitation by a single household, or one not intended for habitation but occupied as living quarters by a household at the time of the census. Thus it may be an occupied or vacant dwelling, an occupied non-conventional housing unit or any other place occupied as living quarters by a house

See Lower-middle-income-country terms

A vessel which supports herself a short distance above the surface of the water (or land) on a cushion of air contained by a flexible skirt attached to the outer perimeter of the vehicle.