Definition: Rate

Category: OECD - Data and Metadata Reporting

A rate refers to the occurrence of events over a specific interval in time. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/OECD_data_metadata_report_handbook_EN.pdf
Source:
Everitt, B.S., 1989, "The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK [quoted in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2007]
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