Statistical Terms Glossary

An institutional household as “a legal body for the purpose of long-term inhabitation and provision of institutionalised care given to a group of persons”.

Bodies mandated to promote gender equality and support mainstreaming of gender equality into general policies in all areas, usually consisting of the central government body complemented with an inter ministerial coordinating gender mainstreaming structure and contact persons or focal points responsible for gender mainstreaming in ministries.

Is a collective set of facts, concepts, experiences and know-how held by a group of people As it transcends the individual, it requires the ongoing transmission of these memories between members of this group. Elements of institutional memory may be found in corporations, professional groups, government bodies, religious groups, academic collaborations and by extension in entire cultures

Comprises persons who are not members of households. These include persons living in military installations, correctional and penal institutions, dormitories of schools and universities, religious institutions, hospitals and so forth.

The ratio between Bank subscriptions authorized solely in general capital increases and IMF quotas obtained solely from general quota increases. Used to determine the initial share allocations of countries joining the Bank during the period of the 1979 General Capital Increase.

In the 2008 SNA all resident institutional units are grouped together to form five institutional sectors, on the basis of their principal functions, behaviour and objectives:
S.11. Non-financial corporations are institutional units which are independent legal entities and market producers that are principally engaged in the production of goods and non-financial services.
S.12. Financial corporations are institutional units which are independent legal entities and market producers that are principally engaged in financial services including financial intermediation.
S.13. General Government consists of institutional units that, in addition to fulfilling their political responsibilities and their role of economic regulation, produce services (and possibly goods) for individual or collective consumption mainly on a non-market basis and redistribute income and wealth.
S.14. Households are institutional units consisting of individuals or groups of individuals as consumers and as entrepreneurs producing market goods and non-financial and financial services provided that the production of goods and services is not by separate entities treated as quasi-corporations. It also includes individuals or groups of individuals as producers of goods and non-financial services for exclusively own final use.

S.15. Non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) are separate legal entities which are non-market producers that are principally engaged in the production of services for households or the community at large and whose main resources are voluntary contributions.
ESA 2010 further divides the institutional sectors S.11 – S.14 into sub-sectors according to type of production (market or non-market) and control (government or non-government) of the institutional units. No single method of sub-sectoring may be optimal for all purposes or all countries, so that alternative sub-sectoring may be useful. Dividing the total economy into sectors enhances the usefulness of the accounts for purposes of economic analysis by grouping together institutional units with similar objectives and types of behaviour. Sectors and subsectors are also needed in order to be able to target or monitor particular groups of institutional units for policy purposes.

An institutional sector, or simply "sector", is an aggregation of institutional units on the basis of the type of producer and depending on their principal activity and function, which are considered to be indicative of their economic behaviour. A sector is divided into sub-sectors according to the criteria relevant to that sector; this permits a more precise description of the economic behaviour of the units.

The SNA 93 states that Institutional units are grouped together to form institutional sectors, on the basis of their principal functions, behaviour, and objectives.

Government and citizen engagement in environmental and sustainable development public policy is reflected in the extent to which institutions that manage and regulate the environment exist and function properly at the national and subnational levels.

The institutional unit is an elementary economic decision-making centre characterised by uniformity of behaviour and decision-making autonomy in the exercise of its principal function.

A unit is regarded as constituting an institutional unit if it has decision-making autonomy in respect of its principal function and keeps a complete set of accounts.

An institutional unit is an economic entity that is capable, in its own right, of owning assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and in transactions with other entities.

The institutional unit is an elementary economic decision-making centre characterised by uniformity of behaviour and decision-making autonomy in the exercise of its principal function. A resident unit is regarded as constituting an institutional unit if it has decision-making autonomy in respect of its principal function and either keeps a complete set of accounts or it would be possible and meaningful, from both an economic and legal viewpoint, to compile a complete set of accounts if they were required.

Comprise any set of premises in a permanent structure or structures designed to house (usually large) groups of persons who are bound by either a common public objective or a common personal interest.

Instream use or non—withdrawal use, that is, use of water taking place within a stream channel, for example, in hydroelectric power generation, navigation, fish farming and recreation

Refers to the use of water without moving it from its source or to the use when water is immediately returned with little or no alteration.

See Intended instruction time

Instructional educational institutions are educational institutions that directly provide instructional programmes (i.e., teaching) to individuals in an organised group setting or through distance education. Business enterprises or other institutions providing short-term courses of training or instruction to individuals on a “one-to-one” basis are not included.

Instructional Personnel comprises two sub-categories: Classroom teachers at ISCED 0-4 and academic staff at ISCED 5-6; and teacher aides at ISCED 0-4 and teaching / research assistants at ISCED 5-6.

Instructional personnel includes two sub- categories. The first: Classroom teachers at ISCED 0-4 and Academic staff at ISCED 5-6; the second is Teacher aides at ISCED 0-4 involved in direct student instruction. The classification includes: classroom teachers; special 0-4 and Teaching / Research assistants at ISCED 5-6

Amount of time during which students receive instruction from a classroom teacher in a school context. Instructional time does not include holidays or teacher development days when students are not expected to be in school; breaks during the school day; or time spent on learning outside of school (e.g. homework, tutoring).

Covered wagon of which the body is built with insulating walls, doors, floor and roof, by which the heat exchanges between the inside and outside of the body can be so limited that the overall coefficient of heat transfer (K coefficient), is such that the equipment is assignable to one or other of the following two categories:
- IN = Normally insulated equipment - characterized by a K coefficient equal to or less than 0.7 W/m 2 degrees C
- IR = Heavily insulated equipment - characterized by a K coefficient equal to or less than 0.4 W/m 2 degrees C

The activity of insurance is intended to provide individual institutional units exposed to certain risks with financial protection against the consequences of the occurrence of specified events. It is also a form of financial intermediation in which funds are collected from policyholders and invested in financial or other assets which are held as technical reserves to meet future claims arising from the occurrence of the events specified in the insurance policies

Insurance corporations consist of incorporated, mutual and other entities whose principal function is to provide life, accident, sickness, fire or other forms of insurance to individual institutional units or groups of units.

The technical reserves held by insurance enterprises consist of the actuarial reserves against outstanding risks in respect of life insurance policies, including reserves for with- profit policies which add to the value on maturity of with-profit endowments or similar policies, prepayments of premiums and reserves against outstanding claims
Net equity of households in life insurance reserves and pension funds (F.61)
Prepayments of insurance premiums and reserves for outstanding claims (F.62)