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Water resources (2 definitions)

Economic territory (of a country)

Full-time equivalent employment

Market price equivalents

Defined benefit pension plans

Defined contribution pension plans

Horizontally integrated enterprise

Integrated economic accounts

Money purchase pension plans

Non-cultivated biological resources

Other land and associated surface water

Recreational land and associated surface water

Resources

Vertically integrated enterprise

National accounts

Country of usual residence

Foreign population of a country

Foreign-born population of a country

Visitors (from abroad to the country)

Availability of data

Change in real national net worth

Compilation of vital statistics data

Data (2 definitions)

Data set (2 definitions)

GNI (gross national income)

Gross national disposable income

Gross national income (GNI)

Gross national product (GNP)

Integrated Pest Management

National disposable income

National expenditure

National income

National private corporations (non-financial and financial)

National wealth

Net national disposable income

Net national income

Quality of data

SNA (System of National Accounts)

Statistical reporting of vital event data

System of National Accounts (SNA)

Population Equivalent (in waste-water monitoring and treatment)

Resource management

Country identifier

Effective Dose Equivalent

Environmentally Adjusted National Income (ENI)

Equivalent Factors

National Estate

National Parks

Quality management

Roentgen Equivalent Man (REM)

Satellite System (of national accounts)

System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA)

Common Property Resources (environmental)

Conditionally Renewable (Natural) Resources

Depletion (in natural resource accounting)

Genetic Resources

Natural Resource Accounting

Natural Resources

Non-renewable Natural Resources

Range Management

Renewable Natural Resources

Resource rent

Risk Management

Solid Waste Management

Stream Bank Management

Waste Management

Advanced Treatment Technology (waste water)

Artificial Water Impoundment

Brackish Water

Confined Water Well

Drinking Water Standards

Dystrophic Water

Hard Water

Humic Water

Net Abstraction of Water

Net Duty of Water

Offstream Use of Water

Potable Water

Protection of Ambient Water

Salt Water Intrusion

Saprobic Water Classification

Storm Water

Surface Water

Waste Water

Waste-water Treatment

Water Abstraction

Water Conservation

Water Cycle

Water Erosion

Water Hyacinth

Water Lily

Water Mining

Water Pollution

Water Quality

Water Quality Classes

Water Quality Criteria

Water Quality Index

Water Quality Monitoring

Water Supply System

Water Table

Water Treatment

Water Use

Water Withdrawal

Water-based Disease

Water-related Disease

Administrative data

Aggregated data

Basic data

Conceptual data model

Confidential data

Data analysis

Data attribute

Data capture

Data checking

Data collection

Data compilation

Data compiling agency

Data confrontation

Data consumer

Data dissemination agency

Data editing

Data element

Data exchange

Data identifier

Data imputation

Data integration

Data interchange

Data model

Data presentation

Data processing

Data provider

Data provider series key

Data reconciliation

Data revision

Data security

Data set identifier

Data sharing

Data status

Data storage

Data structure definition

Data type

Data update

Data validation

Derived data element

Electronic data interchange, EDI

Flow data series

General Data Dissemination System, GDDS

Graphical data editing

Missing data

Originator data identifier

Qualitative data

Quantitative data

Recommended use of data

Related data reference

SDMX, Statistical data and metadata exchange

Source data

Special Data Dissemination Standard, SDDS

Survey data collection

Type of data collection

Climosequence

Tangible non-produced assets

European System for the Collection of Economic Information on the Environment (SERIEE)

Greenhouse Climate Response Index

Exchange rates

Transboundary Pollution

Land

SEEA

Bacterial Count

Biosphere

REM

Sievert

Stream Flow Regulations

Biometrics

PPP (purchasing power parity)

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

ENI

Environmental Accounting

Global Commons

World Heritage

Mining, manufacturing and utilities

Agronomy

Clear-cutting

Depletion of natural economic assets

Informal sector

Lines of credit

Output

Silviculture

Artificial Watercourse

Bacterial Purity

Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA)

Epidemic

Population Density

Ekistics

Illegitimate birth

Lake Classification

Legitimate birth

Zoning

Note issuance facilities

Dose (radiology)

Resident

Transfer price

Aldrin

Counterurbanization

Debt-for-nature Swap

Geographical Information System (GIS)

Hours worked - total

Hydrograph

Processing error

Total hours worked

Transitivity (in international comparisons)

Marine Park

Quality differences

Reference area

Sustainable Income

Record linkage

Environmental Debt

Natural Capital

Conservation

Ecological Dominance

Life Expectancy (at birth)

Monitoring Well

Reserve assets

Response rate

UNEP

Escherichia Coli (E. Coli)

Population (3 definitions)

Subsoil Assets

UN Operational rates

Real holding gains/losses (non-residents)

Recruitment

Additivity

Double entry

Embargo time

Item response rate

Quantity index

Serviceability

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

Catch per unit of effort (CPUE)

Current international cooperation

IMF based rate

Non-resident

Regional central bank

Short-term loans

Total economy

Adjustment

Decimals

Ecodevelopment

Framework for Indicators of Sustainable Development (FISD)

Index type

Indoor Air Pollution

Sample size

Tabulation

Weight period

Account

Area sampling

Documentation on methodology

McKelvey Box

Measure of Economic Welfare (MEW)

Opportunity cost

Civil Status

Environmental Functions

Maternal death

Maximum Sustainable Yield

User-pays Principle

Biodiversity Indices

Capacity of Treatment Installation

Dual Supply System

Hotelling Rent

Access rights

C.i.f. price

Central government

Centre of economic interest

Domain groups

Economic interest - centre of

Economic territory (of an international organisation)

F.o.b. price

Illegal production

International organisations

International statistical standard

Official statistics

Physical Accounting

Trading gains and losses

Closed Ecological System

Direct investment enterprise - foreign

Foreign direct investment enterprise

Source

AMA rate

Clarity

Corporation

Cultivated assets

Employers' actual social contributions

Epilimnion

Field Capacity

Foetal death rate

Foetal death ratio

Hedonic method

Impoundment

Influent

Neo-natal mortality rate

Net lending

Parity

Price adjusted rate of exchange (PARE)

Principal rate

Production

Public disclosure

Sampling (2 definitions)

Statistic

Base period

Base weight

Chain index

Code

Waterborne Disease

Accuracy of register-based vital statistics

Clean Technology

Control of a corporation

Environmentally Adjusted Net Domestic Product (EDP)

Follow-up

Hydrology

Implicit price deflator

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)

IUCN

Net migration rate

Net Price

Overpumping

Quality index

Soil Conservation

User Cost

Value

Warrants

WWF

Agenda 21

Agricultural Run-off

Bank Filtration

Biomonitoring

Corrosion

Crude birth rate (2 definitions)

Crude death rate (2 definitions)

Crude divorce rate

Crude marriage rate

Demographic equation

Dissolved Solids

Dual Flushing System

Environmental Externalities

Evapotranspiration

Flocculation

Freshwater

Health

Infant Mortality Rate (2 definitions)

Informal Settlements

Offstream Fish Farming

Population-at-risk

Rent

Adapted Products

Aerosol Propellant

Alkalinization

Allocation of primary income account

Artificial Recharge

Asbestos

Benthos

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

Cholera

Coliform Index

Cyclone Collector

Dam

Dendrocoelum Lacteum

Discharge

Dual Purpose Sewer

Employers' imputed social contributions

Energy Conversion Factors

Environmental Media

Goods and services account

Groundwater Reservoir

Groundwater Surface

Hydrolysis

Hydroponics

Hydropower

Imputed social contributions

Infiltration

Lahar

Loading

Malaria

Mudflats

Oil Dark

Onchocerciasis

Other accumulation entries

Other depository corporations

Other flows

Particulate Loadings

Permeability

Plankton

Polysaprobe

Population register

Proved Reserves

Quota

Raw Sewage

Real holding gain

Recharge

Reservoir

River-regulating Reservoir

Sedimentation

Sewage

Skimming

Soil Drainage

Stumpage Value

Transactions account

Transpiration

Turbidity

Balance of primary incomes

Balance sheet

Historic cost accounting

Historic monuments

Marine Pollution

Maternal mortality rate

Net

Neutral holding gain (by non-residents)

Nominal holding gain (by non-residents)

Satellite accounts

Taxes and duties on imports

Agroforestry

Biological Pest Control

Carrying Capacity

Central bank

Cultivated natural assets

Endangered Species

Fishing effort

Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ)

Individual Transferable Share Quota (ITSQ)

Long-term loans

Long-term securities other than shares

Market Valuation

Overland Flow

Price relative

Rural population

Salinization

Selective Cutting

Sewerage Network

Short-term securities other than shares

State government

Sustainable catch

Universal Soil Loss Equation

Urban population

Urbanization

Volume index

Accuracy of registration

Aeration

Air Basin

Biodegradation

Biologic Erosion

Biological Waste

Check Irrigation

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

Chlorination

Citizens deported from abroad

Civil register

Cladophora Blanket Weed

Coagulation

Coastal Zone

Comminution

Complete vital statistics

Cooling Tower

Denitrification

Digester

Dilution

Dilution Ratio

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)

Environmental Conditioning

Event register

Geomorphology

Groundwater Run-off

Heat Sink

Hydrologic Cycle

Incineration with Recovery of Energy

Instream Aeration

Instream Use

Irrigation

Land Reclamation

Limestone Scrubbing

Liming

Monitoring

Natural Assets

Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand (NOD)

Outfall Sewer

Own-children method

p.p.m./p.p.b./p.p.t.

Percolation

Phosphorus

Photosynthesis

Precipitation-effectiveness Ratio

Preliminary Treatment

Protected Area

Recharge Area

Riparian Habitat

Saturated Soil

Scrubber

Scum Collector

Sedimentation Tank

Sheet Erosion

Silt

Sludge

Soil Sealing

Sullage

Tertiary Treatment

Urban Run-off

Vital statistics system

Waste Stabilization Pond

Weathering

Border workers

Capital Accumulation (environmental accounting)

Depletion Costs

Discounting (of natural assets)

Entrepreneurs and investors (as settlers)

Environmental Assets

Environmentally-adjusted net Capital Formation (ECF)

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Existence Value

Fish stock

Foreign border workers

Genuine Saving

Human Development

Natural Patrimony Accounting

Other accumulation

Overpopulation

Project-tied migrant workers

Rate

Remote Sensing

Sustainability

Total fertility rate

World Conservation Strategy

Activated Carbon

Activated Sludge

Air Curtain

Algae

Ancenstry-based settlers

Beef Cattle Feedlot

Detergent

Drip Irrigation

Electrodialysis

Excursionists (also called "same-day" visitors)

Foreign excursionists (also called "same-day visitors")

Hypolimnion

Leachate

Long-term migrant

Multiple Land Use

Net migration

Precipitation

Record check

Refugees

Run-off

Schistosomiasis

Sewer

Short-term migrant

Slow Sand Filtration

Trickling Filter

Usual residence

Citizens in transit

Domestic employees

Family-based settlers

Foreign military personnel

Foreigners admitted for family formation or reunification

Foreigners having the right to free establishment

Foreigners in transit

Judicial (legal) separation

Legitimation

Population sex ratio

Returning migrants

Sex ratio at birth

Tourists

Dual records system

Acid Deposition

Agricultural Waste

Aquaculture

Bacteria

Biological Treatment Technology

Biomass

Blue-green Algae

Building Codes

Channelization

Chemical Treatment (of hazardous waste)

Chromium

Civil registration system

Coastal Lagoons

Coliform Organism

Contaminant

Denudation

Dependants

Desalinization

Dew Point

Diatomaceous Earth

Diplomats and consular personnel

Disinfection

Dredging

Ecological Footprint

Energy Sources

Enrichment

Environment Statistics

Environmental Disease

Environmental Services

Erosion

Estuary

Fen

Filtration

Flue Gas

Fluorosis

Foreign students

Foreigners whose entry or stay is not sanctioned

Forest Functions

Groundwater

International civil servants

ISO/IEC 11179

Land Drainage

Life-support System

Mechanical Treatment Technology

Metadata

Metamodel

Nitrate

Non-point Source of Pollution

Oil Spill

Osmosis

Overgrazing

Oxidation Pond

Phenols

Pollution

Pollution Abatement

Pollution of Poverty

Protection against Erosion

Protection against Natural Hazards

Rainwater

Receiving organisation

Sending organisation

Septic Tank

Sewage Lagoon

Sinking

Soil Conditioner

Statistical metadata

Storm Tank

Swamp

Terracing

Waterlogging

Wetland

Women aged 15-49

Access

Adoption

Age-specific fertility rates

Analytical framework

Annulment

Asylum-seekers

Attachment level

Benchmarking

Born in wedlock

Civil registrar

Civil registration

Coding error

Collection

Comment

Compilation

Compilation practices

Compiling agency

Complete civil registration

Concept Scheme

Contract migrant workers

Creation date

Dissemination

Dissemination format

Divorce

EDIFACT

Employment-based settlers

Foreign business travelers

Foreign migrant workers

Foreign tourists

Foreign trainees

Foreigners admitted for settlement

Foreigners granted temporary protected status

Foreigners seeking asylum

Foreigners whose status is regularized

Frame error

GESMES/CB

Grossing / Netting

Interpolation

Key

Key family

Keyword

Maintenance agency

Matching

Measure

Ministerial commentary

Net reproduction rate

Nomads

Periodicity

Pre-release access

Prerequisites of quality

Primary source

Provision agreement

Reference metadata

Register

Release policy

Reporting agency

Reporting unit

Revision policy

SDMX-EDI

SDMX-ML

Seasonal migrant workers

Simultaneous release

Statistical concept

Statistical indicator

Statistical macrodata

Statistical message

Statistical metadata system

Statistical methodology

Statistical microdata

Statistical processing

Structural metadata

Time coverage

Timeliness

Unit of measure

Validation

Verification

Accounting conventions

Administrative source

Births

Births by age group of mother

Category Scheme

Classification

Coding

Confidentiality

Consolidation

Constraint

Contact

Counterpart reference area

Credibility

Cross-domain Concepts

Dataflow definition

Deaths by sex

Deaths under age 1

Deaths under age 5

Dependency ratios

Disclosure analysis

Flag

Grossing up

Imputation

Key structure

Life expectancy by sex

Macro editing

Metadata dimension

Punctuality

Questionnaire design

Secondary supplier

Statistical subject-matter domain

Survey

Survey design

Total fertility

True value

Bilateral exchange

Gateway exchange

GESMES/TS

Multilateral exchange

Population aged 0-14

Population aged 12-14

Population aged 15-17

Population aged 15-24

Population aged 15-59

Population aged 15-64

Population aged 18-23

Population aged 5-14

Population aged 6-11

Population aged 60 or over

Population aged 65 or over

Population aged 80 or over

Population aged  0-4

Population by five-year age group and sex

Population by sex

Population change

Statistical purpose

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