Statistical Terms Glossary

Culling rings or escape vents are added to the exterior wall of the pot to allow for the release of undersize sublegal or juvenile animals.

Area of land potentially fit for cultivation. This term may or may not include part or all of the forests and rangeland.

The sum of the arable land area and the area under permanent crops.

Cultivated assets are livestock for breeding (including fish and poultry), dairy, draught, etc and vineyards, orchards and other plantations of trees yielding repeat products that are under the direct control, responsibility and management of institutional units

Cultivated assets of the 1993 SNA have been renamed as cultivated biological resources in the 2008 SNA. (A3.89).

Correspond to cultivated fixed assets and work in progress on cultivated assets in the SNA.

Land used for the growing of crops on a cyclical basis or a permanent basis. Also included is the land that is normally cultivated but that has been allowed to go temporarily fallow.

It Refers to a wide range of pertinent activities such as attending social occasions (e.g. weddings, birthdays …etc.), participation in religious occasions and activities inside and outside the house (e.g. participation in religious occasions and prayers in the mosque or the church) …etc. This concept also applies to socializing and meetings inside or outside the house such as discussions, visits, and meetings in public places with household members, friends …etc. Other activities under this category include indoor or outdoor sports activities, playing cards, doing crosswords and puzzles, and other free time activities. Finally, this category involves practicing hobbies (arts, music …etc.), visiting museums, exhibitions, cinema, parties, theatre; and traveling for purposes related to carrying out such activities.

In agriculture, cultural control is the practice of modifying the growing environment to reduce the prevalence of unwanted pests.

Aspects of culture and social life − exemplified by religion, ideology, language, art, law and science − that can be used to justify or legitimise direct or structural violence, making direct and structural violence look, or even feel, right − or at least not wrong.

The shared beliefs, traits, attitudes, behavior, products, and artifacts common to a particular social or ethnic group.The term cross-cultural refers to interactions across cultures and reflects the fact that different cultures may have different communication styles and negotiating behavior. The term multicultural refers to the acceptance of different ethnic cultures within a society. Cultural sensitivity means being aware of cultural differences and how they affect behavior, and moving beyond cultural biases and preconceptions to interact effectively.

A receptacle consisting of a rigid frame covered by mesh net that is suspended from a longline for scallop grow-out.

Data expressed in cumulative terms from the beginning of the year; sometimes referred to as cumulative data.

The total theoretical duration of a sequence of education programmes. In ISCED, cumulative duration from the beginning of ISCED level 1 or 3, or since the beginning of tertiary education, is often required for the purpose of classifying an education programme.

An error which, in the course of the accumulation of a set of observations, does not tend to zero. The relative magnitude of the error does not then decrease as the number of observations increases.

Three-year cumulative impact of deficit reductions shows the direct reduction in net debt, by the end of the 1997-98 fiscal year, arising from fiscal actions.

Cumulative preferred stock is entitled to receive at a later date those dividends that accumulate during profitless years (dividends in arrears). During such years, common stock and regular preferred stock are generally paid no dividends.

See unlisted securities market.

Currency comprises those notes and coins in circulation that are commonly used to make payments.

Currency and deposits are summed as one component, although separate data may be compiled by those countries desiring to do so for analytic and other purposes. Currency consists of notes and coin that are in circulation and commonly use to make payments. Deposits comprise both transferable and other deposits.
Transferable deposits consist of deposits that are exchangeable on demand at par without restriction pr penalty, freely transferable by check or giro order, and otherwise commonly used to make payments.
Deposits may be denominated in domestic or foreign currencies.
Other deposits include all claims reflecting evidence of deposit other than transferable deposits.
Typical examples are non-transferable saving deposits; time deposits; and shares in savings and loan association, credit unions, building societies, etc

Currency and deposits are financial assets that are used to make payments or that may be included in money, broadly defined, consisting of currency, transferable deposits and other deposits

See circus swap.