Statistical Terms Glossary

Having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly, making you want to shout at them or hurt them.

Animal identification is the marking of an animal, individually or collectively by its group, with a unique individual or group identifier. Animal identification system is the inclusion and linking of components such as identification of establishment / owner(s), the person(s) responsible for the animals, movements and other records with animal identification. Recording is the process by which data including parentage, characteristics, performance and relevant events, are collected, recorded and securely stored and made appropriately accessible to the users.

The number of cattle, buffalos, camels, sheep, goat, pigs, chicken, turkeys, ducks and geese expressed in livestock unit (LU) equivalents.

Excreta of animals, meat and fish residues that, when dry, are used directly as a fuel.

A continuum of direct or indirect human exposure to animals, their products and their environments.

The total number of road motor vehicles passing a point of a road, in both directions, over a year, divided by 365 days

A plant that completes its life cycle within one year.

Area of land under temporary (annual) crops, which are crops with a growing season lasting between several months and about one year and which need to be re-sown or replanted after each harvest, such as cereals and vegetables.

The average annual standing volume of all trees, living or dead, measured over bark (with no minimum diameter) that are felled during the reference period, including the volume of trees or parts of trees that are not removed from forested land, other wooded land and other felling sites. Includes silvicultural and pre-commercial thinnings and cleanings left in the forest, and natural losses that are not recovered.

See: Benefit statement

Average exponential rate of growth of the population over a given period. It is calculated as ln(Pt/P0)/t where t is the length of the period. It is expressed as a percentage.

The average annual volume of those fellings that are removed from forested land, other wooded land and other felling sites during the reference period. Includes removals during the reference period of trees felled during an earlier period and removal of trees killed or damaged by natural causes (natural losses); for example, by fire, storms, insects and diseases.

A report prepared each year by the pension fund, which informs of its operation, and other information whereby the trustees of the pension funds inform all interested parties.

Rate of survivals of a cohort during one year, relative to the initial number.

The person who is covered by an annuity and who will normally receive the benefits of the annuity.

A form of financial contract mostly sold by life insurance companies that guarantees a fixed or variable payment of income benefit (monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly) for the life of a person(s) (the annuitant) or for a specified period of time. It is different to a life insurance contract which provides income to the beneficiary after the death of the insured. An annuity may be bought through instalments or as a single lump sum. Benefits may start immediately or at a pre-defined time in the future or at a specific age.

Bonds which pay fixed interest every year in perpetuity, i.e. which have no maturity.

A debt instrument having no scheduled return of principal and thereby perpetual interest payments and no maturity.

The present value of a series of payments of unit value per period payable to an individual that is calculated based on factors such as the mortality of the annuitant and the possible investment returns.

The invalidation or voiding of a marriage by a competent authority, according to the laws of each country, which confers on the parties the status of never having been married to each other.

is the invalidation or voiding of a legal marriage by a competent authority, according to the laws of the country, thus conferring on the parties the status of never having been married to each other.