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Definitions (1/12) - Grouped by first letter "D"
50 Definitions Grouped by first letter "D" ➔ Glossary of frequently used abbreviations...
Development Assistance Committee of the OECD
Unified regression framework for regressing high frequency indicators on available low frequency constraints, deterministic effects and autocorrelated ...
Daily Net Imports or Inland Consumption for compliance (calculated) with Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 2009 imposing an obligation on ...
Daily newspapers are periodic publications, issued at least four times a week, intended for the general public and mainly designed to be a primary ...
Disturbance to the forest which may be caused by biotic or abiotic agents, resulting in death, or a significant loss of vitality, productivity or ...
Metric defined to measure the distance between strings. It measures the minimum number of elementary steps to transform one string into another.
The classes of dangerous goods carried by Road are those defined by the fifteenth revised edition of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of ...
As reported by the police or other authorities. This definition is identical in the third and fourth version of the Transport Glossary.
Information compiled by national statistical authorities, on the basis of traditional statistical activities (sample surveys, censuses, etc.) and data ...
Process of transforming raw data into usable information, often presented in the form of a published analytical article, in order to add value to the ...
Process of storing the final version of a dataset in a safe location, outside of the production database, for a determined period of time and ...
Process of making a complete secondary copy of a database or a database server according to a user defined data retention policy, typically configured ...
Conversion of geographic coordinate data from hard-copy sources or by means of field measurements into a computer-readable format. Data capture ...
See: "Data review" http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/kbase/Glossary
The process of gathering data. Data maybe observed, measured, or collected by means of questioning, as in a survey or census response.
Method applied for gathering data for official statistics.
Definition 1 : The technical set-up for presenting and answering survey questions to respondents, and the collection of the survey data to the central ...
Operations performed on data to derive new information according to a given set of rules.
Property of data, usually resulting from legislative measures, which prevents it from unauthorized disclosure.
Process of comparing data that has generally been derived from different surveys or other sources, especially those of different frequencies, in order ...
Entity that uses data. https://sdmx.org/wp-content/uploads/SDMX_Glossary_Version_2_0_October_2018.docx
Maintained collection of Data Consumers. https://sdmx.org/wp-content/uploads/SDMX_Glossary_Version_2_0_October_2018.docx
The transfer of data from one format into another. Usually data conversion refers to the translation of paper map information into digital form. In a ...
Activity of checking data which was declared (is possibly) erroneous. http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/kbase/Glossary
Data curation includes and is more than data archiving; it encompasses an explicit data preservation policy, validation of the data and documentation ...
Metadata element describing the main characteristics of the Data Set in an easily understandable manner, referring to the main data and indicators ...
Description of a set of data elements usually associated with a single data set.
Activity in the survey life cycle to distribute or transmit statistical data to its users.
Organisation disseminating the data. http://sdmx.org/
The sum of all differences between two datasets (data-data divergence) or between a single dataset and reality (data-world divergence). Sources of ...
Application of checks that identify missing, invalid or inconsistent entries or that point to data records that are potentially in error.
Unit of data for which the definition, identification, representation, and permissible values are specified by means of a set of attributes.
Relationship among a data element which is derived, the rule controlling its derivation, and the data element(s) from which it is derived.
Facility within the premises of the statistical organization to which researchers can come in order to perform their research on detailed files. These ...
Process of sending and receiving data. https://sdmx.org/wp-content/uploads/SDMX_Glossary_Version_2_0_October_2018.docx
The framework in which two or more partners agree to: exchange one or more identified sets of data and related attributes (exchanged time series; ...
Process of retrieving census information from information contained in a register and relating to individual statistical units.
Date and time that the data are gathered from a Data Source.
See: "Data item" http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/kbase/Glossary
Organized collection of related records of data.
Organisation, institution, enterprise or individual administering/ controlling the access and use of a data source, that is used or is considered to ...
Logical or physical set of data (e.g. database) stored together with its description (e.g. schema).
Substitution of estimated values for missing or inconsistent data items (fields).
Process of combining data from two or more sources to produce statistical outputs. http://sdmx.org/
A data user who attempts to disclose information about a population unit through identification or attribution.
The detection of a data intruder through their behaviour. This is most likely to occur through analysis of a pattern of requests submitted to a remote ...
A method of estimating the probability that a data intruder who has matched an arbitrary population unit against a sample unique in a target microdata ...
Specific sub-component of a data record. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/OECD_glossary_stat_terms.pdf
The specific sub-components of a data record. For instance, in a population census, specific data items might be last name, first name, sex, and age. ...
A facility that has been established on Statistics New Zealand premises. It is a place where external researchers can be permitted access to ...