Statistical Terms Glossary

Term is used as a type of enterprise, namely a “commercial enterprise” or legal unit with commercial economic activity

See: Cessation of business

The Business Constituency (BC) is the voice of commercial Internet users within ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is a global body with responsibility for certain policies that make the Internet work

A plan that enables businesses to continue to operate even during a disaster. The plans are made before a disaster and are used by public organizations mainly to save the lives of victims.

Are a type of fluctuation found in aggregate economic activity of nations that organise their work mainly in business enterprises.

Business demography covers events, like births and other creations of units, deaths and other cessations of units, and their ratio to the business population. It covers follow-up of units in time dimension, thus gaining information on their survival or discontinuity. It also covers development in time dimension according to certain characteristics like size, thus gaining information on the growth of units, or a cohort of units, by type of activity. Demographic information can in principle be produced for any statistical unit; however, a clear political interest in Europe is on enterprise demography. In other regions business demography data are often calculated based on establishments. The demography of enterprises can be assessed by studying enterprise births and enterprise deaths and by examining the change in the number of enterprises by type of activity, i.e. by examining the flows and stocks to get a complete picture of the enterprise dynamism.

An enterprise is a term in the commercial world used to describe a project or venture undertaken for gain. It is often used with the word "business" as in "business enterprise". Usually, by extension, it refers to the business entity carrying out the enterprise and is thus synonymous with "undertaking", "company" or "firm".

Are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of contacts

A business register is a register of enterprises or establishments involved in foreign direct investment (FDI), which is maintained by countries to assist in the compilation of their direct investment data

Business sector output is total economic output of the economy less the activities of the general government sector, that is, general government consumption and gross capital formation

Is a trade group established in 1988 and representing a number of the world's largest software makers. Its principal activity is trying to stop copyright infringement of software produced by its members

See: Creation of business

See: Economic statistics

Electronic commerce between businesses, as opposed to between a consumer and a business (B2C). While derived from "business to business", "B2B" is narrower in meaning.

Describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

The 60 minute period during which a telecommunications network experiences its peak traffic.

Option strategy that involves selling two calls and buying two calls, with differing maturity dates. One of the options has a higher striking price and the other a lower than the other two options.

Is a program, usually government sponsored, for buying vessels or licenses from fishers and removing the vessels from the fishery.

See: Concentration

A financial arrangement in which a bank or financial institution, or an export credit agency in the exporting country, extends a loan directly to a foreign buyer or to a bank in the importing country to pay for the purchase of goods and services from the exporting country. Also known as financial credit. This term does not refer to credit extended directly from the buyer to the seller (for example, through advance payment for goods and services).

The price that a buyer will pay for a security.

Is the percentage of the intervention price at which purchases into intervention are actually accepted.

A buyout refers to a situation where the existing owners of a firm are "bought out" by another group, usually management and/or workers of that firm. A buyout may be for the whole firm or a division or a plant as the case applies.

Are supply control measures, in which participation is usually voluntary, under which producers receive compensatory payments for reducing output or productive capacity by a specified amount for a given period.

Species taken in a fishery targeting on other species or on a different size range of the same species. That part of the bycatch which has no human value is discarded and returned to the sea, usually dead or dying.