Glossary of Common Terms
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'Aged' Dependency Ratio
'Child' Dependency Ratio
'Elderly' Dependency Ratio
Abortion
Abortion Rate (Crude)
Abortion Rate (General)
Abortion Ratio
Abridged Life Table
Abridged Period Life Table
Absentee
Access to Telecommunication Systems
Access to telecommunication systems - 2001 Census
Accommodation Type
Accounting Unit
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Achieved Sample
Active Smoking
Actively Seeking Work
Activity Unit
Additional Funds Injected
Additions to Fixed Assets
Age
Age-Limited Birth Rate
Age-specific
Age - 2001 Census
Age (of livestock)
Agency Collections
Age(-sex) Pyramid
Agility Disability
All Industries Index
Alterations and Additions
Amount Remitted
Ancillary Activity Unit
Ancillary Geographic Unit
Ancillary NZSIC/ANZSIC
Annual Leave Entitlement
Annual Leave Proportion
Anonymised Data
ANZSIC
Arable
Area Outside <<classification name>>
Area Unit
Asian Ethnic Group
Asian Ethnicities
Asian Ethnicity
Asian Peoples
Asian Population
Assumption
Average Annual Growth Rate
Average Annual Population Change
Average Family Size
Average Household Size
Average Working Life
Baby Boom
Baby Boomer
Balance of Payments
Balance of Payments Conceptual Adjustments
Balance on Current Account
Balance on Invisibles
Balance on Merchandise Trade
Balance on Services
Base
Base Period
Base Population
Base Weighted Index
Basic Prices
Basket of Goods and Services
Bedroom
Bias
Billion
Bills
Birth
Birth Order
Birth Rate (Crude)
Birthplace - 2001 Census
Births & Deaths (of Businesses)
Births & Deaths (of businesses)
Birthweight
Bonds
Bone-in Weight
Borrowing
Borrowings and Repayments
Bottled Gas
Building Block Structure
Building Consent
Building Nature
Building Work Put In Place
Business Directory
Business Frame
Business Type
Calculation Base
Calving Percentage
Capacity (Stay Unit Nights)
Capital Account (Balance of Payments)
Capital Account (Crown Accounts Analysis)
Capital Expenditure Less Disposals
Capital Goods
Capital Goods Price Index
Capital Transfers
Carrying Capacity
CARS
Cash
Cashing up a Non-wage Benefit
Cause of Stoppage
Cell-average Imputation
Cell-mean Imputation
Cell Phone
Census
Census Night Address
Census Night Population Count
Census Overcount
Census Undercount
Census Usually Resident Population Count
Characteristic Tourism Industry
Child
Child in One-parent Family
Child in Two-parent Family
Child Role
Childcare
Childcare Subsidy
Childcare, Main Type
Childcare, Secondary Type
Childless
Child(NZ Childcare Survey)
Child(ren) in a Family Nucleus
CIF
Cigar
Cigarette Smoking Behaviour
Cigarillo
City
Civil Union (registered)
Classifications and Related Standards System
CLNPR
Cluster Sampling
Coal
cod
coe
Cohabitation
Cohort
Cohort Component Method
Cohort Fertility Rate
Cohort Life Table
Cohort Total Fertility Rate
Collapsing
Complete Cohort Life Table
Complete Life Table
Complete Lockout
Complete Period Life Table
Complete Strike
Completed Family Size
Completed Fertility Rate
Completed Year
Compliance Cost
Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFs)
Confinement
Consensual Union
Constant Price Estimate
Consumption Approach
Consumption Goods
Contingent Liabilities
Contract
Contract Escalation
Contract Escalation Clause
Contract Indexation
Cordless Telephone
Corporate Sector
Cost including Insurance and Freight
Country
Country of Destination
Country of Export
Country of Last/Next Permanent Residence
Country of Main Destination
Country of Origin
Couple
Couple Relationship
Couple without Children Family
Cross Sectional Study
Crowding in Households
Crude Abortion Rate
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Death Rate
Crude Marriage Rate
Cumulative Fertility Rate
Currency Option
Current Account (Balance of Payments)
Current Account (Crown Accounts Analysis)
Current Liabilities
Current Portion of Long-term Liabilities
Current Transfers
Data Archive
Data Lab
Data Laboratory
Data Swapping
De Facto Marriage
De Facto Population Concept
De Facto Relationship
De Facto Union
De Jure Population Concept
Death
Death Rate
Death Rate (Crude)
Decree Absolute
Decree Nisi
Defined-benefit Scheme
Defined-contribution Scheme
Degree of Action
Demographic Characteristics
Demographic Projection
Demographic Transition
Denomination
Density (of population)
Dependency Ratio (0–14)
Dependency Ratio (65+)
Dependency Ratio (Total)
Dependent Child
Deposit Money Banks
Depository Receipts
Deposits
Deposits (Overseas Debt)
Depreciation
Diesel
Direct Investment
Disability
Disability Rate
Disposed land
Dissolution of Marriage
District
Divorce
Divorce Rate
Divorced
dk
Domestically Issued Securities
Domestic/Foreign Origin of the Goods being Exported.
Don't Know
Durable Building
Duration of Residence
Duration of Stoppage
Dwelling Address
Dwelling Occupancy Status
Dwelling Type
Dwelling type - 2001 Census
Dwelling Under Construction
D/F
Early Neonatal Death
Early Neonatal Mortality
Economic Census
Economic Cost of Use
Economic Family
Economically Significant Enterprise
Educational Qualification
Electricity
Elementary Aggregate
Emigrant
Employed
Employee
Employee Count
Employer Contributions
Employment, Status in
Empty Dwelling
Enterprise
Equity
Equity Capital
Equity Securities
Errors and Omissions-balancing Item
Establishment
Estimate
Estimate (population)
Estimated De Facto Population
Estimated Families
Estimated Households
Estimated Private Dwellings
Estimated Resident Population
Estimated Value of Agricultural Output
Estimation
Estimation Cell
Estimator
Ethnic Category Jumping
Ethnic Group
Ethnicity
Ethnicity - 2001 Census
European Ethnic Group
European Ethnicities
European Ethnicity
European or Other Ethnicity
European or Other (including New Zealander) Ethnicity
European Peoples
European Population
EVAO
Event
Ewe Equivalent (EE)
Ex-nuptial Birth
Ex-smoker
Expectation of Life
Expectation of Life at Birth
Expenditure
Expenditure Weight
Exports
Exposed-to-risk Population
Expression Base
Extended Family
Extended Family (One-generation )
Extended Family (Three- or more generation )
Extended Family (Two-generation )
External Migration
Facsimile
Familial Relationship
Family
Family Household
Family Nucleus
Family Type
Family type - 2001 Census
Farm
Farm Type
Fax
Fertility Rate (General)
Fertility (census)
Fertility (demography)
Finance Lease
Finance Leased Real Estate
Financial Accounts
Financial Derivatives
Finishing
Firm Orders Placed
Fisher Ideal Index
Fixed Interest Securities
Fixed Weight Price Index
Flat Rate
Flows
fob
Foetal Death
Foetal Loss
Food and Beverages: Finished Goods
Food and Beverages: Unfinished Goods
Foreign Currency Swap
Foreign Direct Investment in New Zealand
Forward Movement Factor
Frame
Free On Board
FTE
Fuel Oil
Fuel Types Used in Dwellings
Fuel types used to heat dwelling - 2001 Census
Full-time Study
Full Coverage
Full Time Employee
Full Time Equivalent Employees
Full Time Working Proprietor
Functional Disability
Furnished Bedroom
Gender
General Abortion Rate
General Fertility Rate
General Marriage Rate
General Measure of Inflation
Geographic Frame
Geographic Unit
Gestation
Gestation Period
Goods and Services Tax
Government Current Transactions
Government Final Consumption Expenditure
Gross Census Overcount
Gross Census Undercount
Gross Debt
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Constant Prices
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Current Prices
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per Capita
Gross Reproduction Rate
Gross Weight
Group
Group Enterprise
Growth Rate of Population
GRR
GST
GST Purchases
GST Sales
Guest
Guest arrivals (guest first nights)
Hand Rolled Cigarettes
Haphazard Sampling
Harmonised System
Health Risk Factor
Hedging
Heifer
Herbage
Highest qualification - 2001 Census
Highest Secondary School Qualification - 2001 Census
Hire Purchase
Historical Imputation
HLFS Parent Role
Hogget
Hours Paid For
Hours Worked in Employment
Hours worked in employment - 2001 Census
Household
Household Consumption Expenditure
Household Head Method
Household Labour Force Survey Parent Role
Householder
Householder Rate
HS
IIP
Immigrant
Imports
Imports of Goods and Services
Imputation
Imputation Cell
In-house Training
Income and Outlay Account
Income (total)
Index Number
Index Population
Indexes
Indirect Taxes
Industry - 2001 Census
Infant Death
Infant Mortality
Inflation
Inland Water Meshblocks
Inlet Meshblocks
Institutional Sector
Insurance
Insurance Agent
Insurance Broker
Insurance Refund
Insured
Intellectual Disability
Inter-ethnic Mobility
Interest Paid
Interest that Came Due
Interest, etc
Intermediate Goods
Intermediates
Internal Migration
International Investment Income
International Investment Position
International Migration
International Organisations
International Travel and Migration
Internet
Invisibles
Island Meshblocks
Issue
Item
Item Substitution
Item Weights
Iwi
Iwi - 2001 Census
Jobless
Jobless Rate
Judgement Sample
Key Firms
Kid
Kind of Activity Unit
Labour Cost Index
Labour Costs
Labour Force
Labour Force Participation Rate
Labour Force Status
Lamb
Lambing Percentage
Land Meshblocks
Land/Water Meshblock Demarcation
Language - 2001 Census
Laspeyres Index
Late Foetal Loss
Late Registration
Lease
Leasehold
Lending
Lessee (of real estate)
Lessor (of real estate)
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth
Life Table
Linking
Live Birth
Livestock Unit (LSU)
Living Arrangement Type
Living Arrangement Type Rate
Living Arrangements
Loans
Lockout
Long-term Arrival
Long-term Debt Securities
Long-term Departure
Long-term Liabilities
Longest Duration of Disability
Longevity
Longitudinal Study
Low Interest Loans
Main Activity
Main Means of Travel to Work
Main means of travel to work - 2001 Census
Main Type of Childcare
Main Urban Areas
Mainland Meshblocks
Mains Gas
Manufactured Cigarette

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