Statistical Terms Glossary

African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Group of 71 countries with preferential trading relation with the EU under the former Lomé Treaty now called the Cotonou Agreement.

The stakeholder that acquires or procures a product or service from a supplier.

The body of Community legislation by which all EU Member States are bound. Countries joining the EU must have implemented the existing acquis communautaire by the time of accession

The process of obtaining products or services through supplier agreements.

Acquisition refers to obtaining ownership and control by one firm, in whole or in part, of another firm or business entity.

Involves the purchase of external knowledge and technology without active co operation with the source. This external knowledge can be embodied in machinery or equipment that incorporates this knowledge. It can also include the hiring of employees who possess the new knowledge, or the use of contract research and consulting services. Disembodied technology or knowledge also includes other know-how, patents, licences, trademarks and software.

The acquisition price is the price that was actually paid for an asset when it was first acquired by a resident user. It is a synonym for “historic price"

The specific approach to acquiring products and services that is based on considerations of supply sources, acquisition methods, requirements specification types, agreement types, and related acquisition risks.

The times at which goods and services are acquired are when the change of ownership occurs or the delivery of the services is completed

Goods (including assets) and services are acquired by institutional units when they become the new owners of the goods or when the delivery of services to them is completed

An approach to CPIs in which consumption is identified with the consumption goods and services acquired by a household in some period (as distinct from those wholly or partially used up for purposes of consumption). Depending on the intended scope of the CPI, acquisitions may include not only goods and services purchased, but also those acquired by own-account production or as social transfers in kind from government or non-profit institutions.

Acquisitions of goods and services by institutional units occur when they become the new owners of the goods or when the delivery of services to them is completed.

Country which still receives World Bank loans.

Active corruption or “active bribery” is defined as paying or promising to pay a bribe.

Time extrapolating factor used in the estimation of total fishing effort. It is boat/gear specific and defined as the number of days in a reference period (e.g. a calendar month) during which fishing activities are "normal". Usually this variable is defined in reverse manner, that is by subtracting from the calendar days those days known for zero or negligible activity. Definition of active days is in itself a sample-based survey involving several sites and boat/gear types, but it is often specified at minor stratum level by means of empirical knowledge and/or information from the enumerators.

Includes all social expenditure (other than education) which is aimed at the improvement of the beneficiaries’ prospect of finding gainful employment or to otherwise increase their earnings capacity. This category includes spending on public employment services and administration, labour market training, special programmes for youth when in transition from school to work, labour market programmes to provide or promote employment for unemployed and other persons (excluding young and disabled persons) and special programmes for the disabled.

A level crossing where the crossing users are protected from or warned of the approaching train by devices activated when it is unsafe for the user to traverse the crossing.

number of lines activated in the switch.

Loan on which disbursement is still being made.

A pension plan member who is making contributions (and/or on behalf of whom contributions are being made) and is accumulating assets.

The indicator active mobile broadband subscriptions refers to the sum of mobile-broadband and dedicated mobile broadband subscriptions to the public Internet.

Transport of goods using two modes of transport in combination, where one (passive) transport means is carried on another (active) transport means which provides traction and consumes energy (rail/road transport, sea/road transport, sea/rail transport...).

Transport of a complete goods road motor vehicle, accompanied by the driver, by another mode of transport (for example by sea or rail).