Statistical Terms Glossary

Formerly known as Community Based Rehabilitation, CBID strategy encourages inclusive, resilient, equitable communities where people with disabilities are empowered to exercise their rights. CBID uses ‘bottom-up’ and ‘person-centered’ approaches at community level, using participatory processes to include everyone.

Formerly known as CBR workers, may be paid employees or volunteers. They carry out a range of activities within CBR programmes including identification of people with disabilities, support for families, and referral to relevant services.

Community health workers provide health education and referrals for a wide range of services, and provide support and assistance to communities, families and individuals with preventive health measures and gaining access to appropriate curative health and social services. They create a bridge between providers of health, social and community services .and communities that may have difficulty in accessing these services.

An organization set up to own and manage land by and for a local community. Through this organization, the land is owned by the community in perpetuity and used for the explicit benefit of that community.

Activities undertaken primarily by women at the community level, as an extension of their reproductive role, to ensure the provision and maintenance of scarce resources of collective consumption such as water, health care and education. This is voluntary unpaid work undertaken in "free" time.

A community of species is an assemblage of organisms characterised by a distinctive combination of species occupying a common environment and interfacing with one another

A partnership between farmers and the local community, providing mutual benefits and reconnecting people to the land where their food is grown.

A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. While each telecentre is different, their common focus is on the use of digital technologies to support community, economic, educational, and social development—reducing isolation, bridging the digital divide, promoting health issues, creating economic opportunities, and reaching out to youth for example

Water delivered to all the users in a community (homes, schools, and businesses) by a utility company.

A form of co-management where a central role for management is delegated to a community and where Government would usually have a minor role.

Data collected at community level, such as community infrastructure and services, communal grazing land, area of communal forest, area equipped for irrigation, etc.

A commuting accident is an accident occurring on the habitual route, in either direction, between the place of work or work-related training and: (a) the worker’s principal or secondary residence; (b) the place where the worker usually takes his or her meals; (c) the place where he or she usually receives his or her remuneration; which results in death or personal injury.

A compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system); a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user.

Plants, trees and shrubs planted in a regular and systematic manner, such as in an orchard.

Reduction of solid waste by rolling and tamping.

One temporary crop planted between rows of another temporary crop. One permanent crop planted between rows of another permanent crop

See: Corporation

See: Occupational pension plan. Identical term "Employer's pension plan"

The extent to which differences between statistics can be attributed to differences between the true values of the statistical characteristics.

An understanding in a debt-restructuring agreement with the Paris Club creditors that the debtor will secure at least equivalent debt relief from other creditors.

Are defined as the ratios of purchasing power parities (PPPs) to exchange rates.

In principle, the “current” period should refer to the most recent period for which an index has been computed or is being computed. However, the term is widely used to refer to any period that is compared with the price reference or index reference period. It is also widely used simply to mean the later of the two periods being compared. The exact meaning varies according to the context.