Statistical Terms Glossary

Refers to the act of purchasing a commodity once its market price drops below a set administered price (the intervention price) so as to raise its market price to at least the level of the intervention price.

Price at which the European Commission will purchase produce to support internal market prices. It is usually below 100% of the intervention price, which is an annually decided policy price.

Stocks held by national intervention agencies in the European Union as a result of intervention buying of commodities subject to market price support. Intervention stocks may be released onto the internal markets if internal prices exceed intervention prices; otherwise, they may be sold on the world market with the aid of export restitutions.

An intervention is any activity undertaken. Interventions can have different formats, such as individual activities, single projects or large-scale programmes.

Behaviour by an intimate partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including acts of physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours. This definition covers violence by both current and former spouses and other intimate partners. Other terms used to refer to this include domestic violence, wife or spouse abuse, wife/spouse battering. Dating violence is usually used to refer to intimate relationships among young people, which may be of varying duration and intensity, and do not involve cohabiting

Intra-bank refers to transactions between parts of the same bank

Intra-company refers to transactions between parts of the same company or the same group

The value assigned on a per unit or per shipment basis to goods transferred from one establishment of an enterprise to another. It may or may not be economically significant. However, it is not a market price as ownership of the good does not change hands.

Refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all. It includes the imbalances in physical access to technology as well as the imbalances in resources and skills needed to effectively participate as a digital citizen. In other words, it is the unequal access by some members of society to information and communication technology, and the unequal acquisition of related skills.

Intra-firm trade consist of trade between parent companies of a compiling country with their affiliates abroad and trade of affiliates under foreign control in this compiling country with their foreign parent group.

The processes by which resources (more broadly including income and consumption goods, tasks, leisure, and investments in human capital) are allocated among individuals and the outcomes of those processes.

Relations, including power relations, which take place within the household and are affected by existing gender inequalities.

Dynamics of how different resources that are generated within or which come into the household are accessed and controlled by its members.

Different types of trade are captured in measurements of intra-industry trade:
a) Trade in similar products (“horizontal trade”) with differentiated varieties (e.g. cars of a similar class and price range).
b) Trade in “vertically differentiated” products distinguished by quality and price (e.g. exports of high-quality clothing and imports of lower-quality clothing).

performed within a statistical unit or sector of the economy during a specific period, whatever the source of funds. Expenditures made outside the statistical unit or sector but in support of intramural R&D (e.g. purchase of supplies for R&D) are included. Both current and capital expenditures are included.

An internet-like system only operating within a single organisation.

An EU harmonised survey to collect information on external trade transactions directly from importers and exporters introduced in January 1993 when Customs controls were discontinued on the completion of the EU Single Market.

Constant of the Production models that represents the instantaneous rate of the decreasing of the function H(K)-H(B), where B is the biomass, H(B) is a function of the total biomass, usually a power-function, (including the logarithmic function that can be considered a limit power function) and k is the carrying capacity of the environment. Some models introduce one more parameter, p, which is used to obtain a more general relation.

The financial benefit to be derived if an option is exercised immediately, reflecting the difference between the exercise price and the market price of the instrument.

Introduction from the sea means transportation into a State of specimens of any species which were taken in the marine environment not under the jurisdiction of any State.

Is a device (or application) that monitors network and/or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and produces reports to a Management Station. Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing them for signs of possible incidents, which are violations or imminent threats of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard security practices.

Inulin syrups are extracted from chicory through a process commercially developed in the 1980s. They usually contain 83% fructose. Inulin syrup production in the European Union is covered by the sugar regime and subject to a production quota.

A test under the axiomatic approach that requires that the price index does not change when the units of quantity to which the prices refer are changed: for example, when the price of some drink is quoted per litre rather than per pint.

A test that may be used under the axiomatic approach which requires that the price index remains unchanged when all the base period quantities, or all the current period quantities, are multiplied by a positive scalar.

Inventories consist of stocks of outputs that are still held by the units that produced them prior to their being further processed, sold, delivered to other units or used in other ways, and stocks of products acquired from other units that are intended to be used for intermediate consumption or for resale without further processing.