Statistical Terms Glossary

Informal employment comprises the total number of informal jobs, whether carried out in formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or households, during a given reference period. It includes the following types of jobs: (a) own-account workers employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (b) employers employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (c) contributing family workers, irrespective of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises; (d) members of informal producers’ cooperatives; (e) employees holding informal jobs in formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers employed by households; where they exist, employees holding formal jobs in informal sector enterprises should be excluded from informal employment;(f) own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household, if considered employed.

The Informal Expert Group (IEG) on Women, Peace and Security is the first official Security Council working Group on Women, Peace and Security and was created in 2016 after a decade of concerted calls by women led civil society. It affirms the Council’s 2015 commitment in UNSCR 2242 (OP 5a) to strengthen more systematically the oversight and coordination of Women, Peace and Security implementation work.

Finance which takes place outside of the normal financial markets.

Smallholder irrigation by individuals or small farmer groups along peri-urban streams, in inland valleys, around small reservoirs or wells, using smaller schemes or just watering cans.; Schemes under local responsibility, controlled and operated by local people in response to their perceived needs. In many areas with potential, farmers have attempted to enhance food production by introducing some form of irrigation, e.g. small earth dams, simple diversion structures and self-made conveyance canals, water harvesting, shallow groundwater abstraction. These schemes are often ad-hoc and therefore not included in irrigated area. Also called initiated smallholder schemes.

Forms of learning that are intentional or deliberate but are not institutionalized. They are less organized and structured than either formal or non-formal education. Informal learning may include learning activities that occur in the family, in the work place, in the local community, and in daily life, on a self-directed, family-directed or socially-directed basis.

Producers’ cooperatives are considered informal if they are not formally established as legal entities and also meet the other criteria of informal sector enterprises.

The informal sector is broadly characterised as consisting of units engaged in the production of goods or services with the primary objective of generating employment and incomes to the persons concerned. These units typically operate at a low level of organisation, with little or no division between labour and capital as factors of production and on a small scale. Labour relations – where they exist – are based mostly on casual employment, kinship or personal and social relations rather than contractual arrangements with formal guarantees. The informal sector thus defined excludes households producing exclusively for own final use.

The informal sector is broadly characterised as consisting of units engaged in the production of goods or services with the primary objective of generating employment and incomes to the persons concerned.

These units typically operate at a low level of organisation, with little or no division between labour and capital as factors of production and on a small scale. Labour relations - where they exist - are based mostly on casual employment, kinship or personal and social relations rather than contractual arrangements with formal guarantees.

The informal sector is broadly characterised as comprising production units that operate on a small scale and at a low level of organisation, with little or no division between labour and capital as factors of production, and with the primary objective of generating income and employment for the persons concerned.

Informal sector enterprises are private unincorporated enterprises, whose size in terms of employment is below a certain threshold to be determined according to national conditions (usually five or ten workers), and/or which are not registered under specific forms of national legislation, such as factories or commercial acts, tax or social security laws, professional groups regulatory acts, or similar acts, laws or regulations established by national legislative bodies (as distinct from local regulations governing trade licenses or business permits). Households employing paid domestic workers should be excluded from informal sector enterprises and treated separately as part of a category named “households”.

Informal settlements are: 1. areas where groups of housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally; 2. unplanned settlements and areas where housing is not in compliance with current planning and building regulations (unauthorized housing).

An informant is the individual whose responsibility, designated by law, is to report to the local registrar the fact of the occurrence of a vital event and to provide all the information and characteristics related to the event. Only on the basis of his or her report may the event be legally registered by the local registrar.

Refers to knowledge concerning objects, such as facts, events, things, processes, or ideas, including concepts, that within a certain context has a particular meaning.

Is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware."[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

The Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) aspires to play a major role with ESCWA member countries in their transformation toward knowledge-based society and global competitiveness in the market, while striving to increase employment, reduce poverty and enhance quality of life through state-of-the-art ICTs and their applications.

‘Knowledge Management (KM) is the set of professional practices which improves the capabilities of the organization’s human resources and enhances their ability to share what they know.’

Is a special program of the World Bank and many other international development agencies focusing on how the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help to combat poverty and promote opportunity, empowerment and economic growth in developing countries, a field of activity often referred to as 'ICT for Development', or ICT4D for short.

Document sent to all banks involved in Eurocredit, equivalent to a prospectus, though, unlike a prospectus, it is confidential.

Is a society in which the manipulation of information is a significant and sometimes measured amount of personal activity. is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People that have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens. As Beniger[1] shows, this is one of many dozen labels that have been identified to suggest that we are entering a new phase of society.

ESCWA has created the Information Society Portal for the ESCWA Region (ISPER), which aims to track the progress of World Summit on the Information Society implementation in ESCWA member countries. ISPER is a bilingual (English/Arabic), database-driven, open-source application that showcases ESCWA publications, such as the Regional and National Profiles of the Information Society.

The science of classification according to a pre-determined system, with the resulting catalog used to provide a conceptual framework for discussion, analysis, or information retrieval.

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware."[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

Is an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry-support association founded in 2000 with the aim of improving the dynamics of Jordan's ICT market and developing the Kingdom's ICT related activities. Membership is open to all companies operating in Jordan in the fields of software development, support, application, telecommunications, value-added assembly and distribution of ICT products and services, and is also open to the suppliers and users of these industries, along with universities and other parties supporting ICT training and promotion. The Association began with 53 members in 2000, ranging from the largest software developer to many smaller start-up companies, and now boasts a number of over 109 partners.

Is the Egyptian business partner making sure that you get all the help you need. We are primarily concerned with building the capacities of the local IT companies, attracting and servicing multi-national IT companies, and growing a qualified, sustainable, and deployable talent pool. ITIDA adheres to a Public-Private Partnership mode to achieve the goals of the IT industry and create for you a business environment where cooperation is a salient feature. ITIDA is the executive IT arm of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, MCIT, and is located in the heart of a modern business environment at the Smart Village

ICT goods are those that are either intended to fulfil the function of information processing and communication by electronic means, including transmission and display, OR which use electronic processing to detect, measure and/or record physical phenomena, or to control a physical process.

The Information, Communication Technology sector (ICT) is defined by the OECD in terms of the following ISIC Rev. 3.1 classes: Manufacturing
3000 – Office, accounting and computing machinery
3130 – Insulated wire and cable 3210 – Electronic valves and tubes and other electronic components
3220 – Television and radio transmitters and apparatus for line telephony and line telegraphy
3230 – Television and radio receivers, sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus, and associated goods
3312 – Instruments and appliances for measuring, checking, testing, navigating and other purposes, except industrial process equipment
3313 – Industrial process equipment
Services 5151 – Wholesale of computers, computer peripheral equipment and software
5152 - Wholesale of electronic and telecommunications parts and equipment
6420 - Telecommunications
7123 - Renting of office machinery and equipment (including computers)
72 - Computer and related activities

Refers to a person’s agreement to allow personal data to be provided for research and statistical purposes. Agreement is based on full exposure of the facts the person needs to make the decision intelligently, including awareness of any risks involved, of uses and users of the data, and of alternatives to providing the data.

The system of public works in a country, state or region, including roads, utility lines and public buildings.