Statistical Terms Glossary

The change in real national net worth is the sum of changes in net worth of all resident institutional sectors less the neutral holding gains/losses (that is, in proportion to the general price level); it is also equal to the sum of saving and capital transfers, other changes in volume of assets and real holding gains or losses.

Changes in inventories (including work-in- progress) consist of changes in:

(a) 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

(b) stocks of products acquired from other units that are intended to be used for intermediate consumption or for resale without further processing; they are measured by the value of the entries into inventories less the value of withdrawals and the value of any recurrent losses of goods held in inventories.

A matrix that cross distributes the changes in land cover according to categories of land cover and categories of changes (economic and non economic). Increase and decrease are generally separately shown.

There are:
- Changes in net worth due to nominal holding gains or losses
- Changes in net worth due to saving and capital transfers
changes in net worth due to nominal holding gains or losses. It is defined as the algebraic sum of the positive or negative nominal holding gains on all the assets and liabilities of an institutional unit.
The total of the entries on the right-hand side of the account is explicitly shown and described as changes in net worth due to saving and capital transfers. It is not a balancing item. Changes in net worth due to saving and capital transfers represent the positive or negative amount available to the unit or sector for the acquisition of nonfinancial and financial assets.

One of the items of the decomposition of the changes in the value of natural resources during the accounting period. Changes in the extraction rate modify the life length of the resource stock and thus the net present value.

The item of the decomposition of the changes in the value of natural resources that results from the modifications of the economic conditions of extraction (extracted product’s price and costs of extraction).

See statement of changes in financial position.

Consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers and/or text) through telecommunication networks or storage of text in computers.

A characteristic is one of a set of information that is stored in a business register to describe a statistical unit.
Characteristics are provided for identification of a unit like name, address, and identification numbers, for economic description of a unit, like activity code, turnover or employment of a unit or for the structure of a unit, like the relationship to other statistical units.

The property that requires transitive multilateral comparisons between members of a group of countries to retain the essential features of the intransitive binary comparisons that existed between them before transitivity. A transitive multilateral comparison between a pair of countries is influenced by the price and quantity data of all other participating countries.

The solid residue from the carbonization of wood or other vegetal matter through slow pyrolysis.

See write off.

Financial institution licensed by the Canadian Parliament under the Bank Act to operate as a bank.

Technical analyst who charts the patterns of stocks, securities and commodities to make buy and sell recommendations to clients.

A virtual space where a chat session takes place. Technically, it is just the real-time communication between two computer users, such that once a chat has been initiated, either user can type in information and the entered text appears on the other user’s screen.

A discontinuity (e.g. a stress-induced mark) in a pattern of opaque and translucent zones, or micro increments.

-        Conventional check-in: facility where airline staff handle ticket processing, luggage labelling, including fast bag drops, and issuance of boarding cards directly;
-        Self-service check-in: kiosks providing self-service check-in, automatic ticket processing, boarding cards issuance and, in some cases, luggage label printing.

A conventional check-in facility where airline staff handle ticket processing, luggage labelling, including fast bag drops, and issue of boarding cards directly. Self service check-in kiosks; A kiosk providing check-in facilities and offering automatic ticket processing, boarding cards and, in some cases, luggage label printing.

Chemical treatment (of hazardous waste) refers to the treatment methods that are used to effect the complete breakdown of hazardous waste into non-toxic gases or, more frequently, to modify the chemical properties of the waste, for example, through reduction of water solubility or neutralisation of acidity or alkalinity

May be hazardous – toxic, corrosive, flammable, reactive or genotoxic (capable of altering genetic material), or non-hazardous.

Application of chemicals, including fertilisers, to crops through an irrigation system by mixing them with the irrigation water.

The production of organic chemicals from inorganic source substances by an autotrophic organism that utilizes chemical energy (e.g. from the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide) rather than sunlight (as in photosynthesis). A few highly specialized chemosynthetic bacteria occupy odd niches such as geyser pools or anaerobic muck from the bottom of watercourses. In a few places, complete ecosystems have developed around chemosynthesis, as those surrounding thermal springs in deep ocean trenches, called hydrothermal vents.