Statistical Terms Glossary

Capital expenditure to purchase new railway vehicles or to upgrade existing ones.

Capital expenditure to purchase seagoing vessels or to upgrade existing ones.

Capital expenditure to purchase new vessels or to upgrade existing ones.

Expenditure on purchase of vessels.

Expenditure for purchase of the new railway vehicles.

Investment funds are institutional units, excluding pension funds, that consolidate investor funds for the purpose of acquiring financial assets. Examples are mutual funds, including money market funds, investment trusts, unit trusts, and other collective investment units. Investors usually purchase shares in the fund that represent a fixed proportion of the fund.

Issue of paper rated at BBB- or above (or equivalent) by a rating agency.)

Investment grants consist of capital transfers in cash or in kind made by governments to other resident or non-resident institutional units to finance all or part of the costs of their acquiring fixed assets.

Is defined as the sum of expenditures in research and development (R&D), on total higher education (public and private) and on software.

Investment income (property income in the 1993 System of National Accounts) covers income derived from a resident entity's ownership of foreign financial assets. The most common types of investment income are income on equity (dividends) and income on debt (interest).

Various unpredicted factors that increase the cost of an investment, such as management fees, inflated equipment costs and non-arms length royalties.

Investment pools are institutional units that are organized financial arrangements, excluding pension funds, that consolidate Other Financial Intermediaries investor funds for the purpose of acquiring financial assets.
Examples are mutual funds, investment trusts, unit trusts, and other collective investment units. Investors usually purchase shares representing fixed proportions of the fund.

Securities that are particularly suitable for long-term investment (e.g., bonds). Also includes top-rated shares.

A share of a company bound by a trust deed, formed to invest in specific types of securities. Shares in an investment trust can usually be bought and sold only through the stock exchange. Sometimes referred to as a “closed-end” fund.

Attitudes and the underlying traditional assumptions, norms and values that prevent women’s empowerment/full participation in society.

Invoiced value added tax (VAT) is the VAT payable on the sales of a producer; it is shown separately on the invoice which the producer presents to the purchaser.

Lending by banks as long as the resulting reduction in probability of default, multiplied by the existing exposure, exceeds the amount of new money multiplied by the remaining probability of default even after the new assistance.

See Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services (FATS)

Inward investment refers to direct investment in the reporting economy

Inward statistics on foreign affiliates describe the activity of foreign affiliates resident in the compiling economy.

Spot sale of foreign exchange and forward repurchase of same foreign currency against domestic currency.