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Lost in Eurostat
jargon ? Then, this page is for you ! You will find below hundreds of
abbreviations and acronyms used (almost) everyday in Eurostat and with which you
are not necessarily familiar. Use the alphabetical index to navigate
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other
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AAP |
Absolute agricultural prices |
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AAR |
Annual Activity Report (A Director-General’s management report to the Commission, concerning the performance of his/her duties, the realisation of policy objectives and the use of resources during one year's activities) |
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AAU |
Agricultural area in use |
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ABAC |
Accrual-based Accounting System |
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ABB |
Activity Based Budgetting |
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ABM |
Activity Based Management |
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ABS |
Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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ACC |
Acceding Countries |
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ACP |
African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States |
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| Acquis communautaire | The "acquis" refers to the body of existing EU legislation to be adopted by countries before they can become full members of the European Union. The statistical 'acquis' refers to EU legislation in the field of statistics, but is often interpreted as including also the agreed definitions, nomenclatures, methods and questionnaires for collecting data in other statistical fields not covered by legislation and usually referred to as data collected by Gentlemen's agreement | |
| AEI | Agri-environmental indicator | |
| AES | Adult Education Survey | |
| Afristat | Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| AGRI | Directorate-General "Agriculture and Rural Development" | |
| AGRIS | Agricultural Information System | |
| AIDCO | EuropeAid | |
| ALA | Asia and Latin America | |
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ALI |
Agricultural Labour Input |
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ALM |
Application Lifecycle Management |
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AMP |
Annual Management Plan |
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ANSI/IEEE |
American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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AOD |
Authorising Officer by Delegation |
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AOSD |
Authorising Officer by Sub-Delegation |
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API |
Agricultural price indices |
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APS |
Annual Policy Strategy |
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| ARES | Advanced Records System (electronic document management system, designed to replace all the Adonis databases in the various DGs of the Commission) | |
| Asean | Association of Southeast Asian Nations | |
| ASSIST |
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| ASWP | Annual statistical work programme | |
| AWP | Annual Work Programme | |
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AWU |
Annual work unit |
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DEFINITION |
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| BARG | Business Architecture Reflection Group | |
| BB | Building Block | |
| BC | Business Continuity | |
| BCC | Business Cycle Clock | |
| BCC2 | Business Cycle Clock v. 2 | |
| BCP | Business Continuity Plan | |
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BEC |
Broad Economic Categories |
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| BEPA | Bureau of European Policy Advisers | |
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BERDR |
R&D Expenditure in the Business Enterprise Sector in a given year at the regional level |
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BES |
Business enterprise sector |
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BIF |
Directors meeting on financial matters |
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| BIG data | Big data sets | |
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BIS |
Bank of International Settlements |
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BLEU |
Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union |
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BOP |
Balance Of Payments |
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| BPMN | Business Process Moduling Notation | |
| BSDG | Business Statistics Directors Group | |
| BSDG-SDG | Business Statistics Directors Group — Strategic Development Group | |
| BUDG | Directorate-General "Budget" | |
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| CAB | Cabinet | |
| CAB |
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CAESAR |
World Conference on Agricultural and Environmental Statistical Applications |
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| CAF | Common Assessment Framework | |
| CAFS | Commission's Anti-Fraud Strategy | |
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CAN |
Competent National Administration |
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| CAN | Andean Community | |
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CAP |
Common Agricultural Policy |
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CAPI/CASI/CATI |
Computer Aided Personal/Self/Telephone Interviewing |
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CAPSIM |
Common Agricultural Policy Simulation Model |
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Cards |
EU Assistance Programme for Reconstruction Development and Stabilisation in the Western Balkans |
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CARE |
Community road accident database |
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| Caricom | Caribbean Community and Common Market | |
| CARP | Countries and Regions Profiles | |
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CB |
Central Bank |
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CBNE |
Classification of Branches of the National Economy (COMECON) |
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CBS |
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Statistical office of The Netherlands) |
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CC |
Candidate Country |
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CC |
Classification of types of Constructions |
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CCC |
Customs Cooperation Council |
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CCCN |
Customs Cooperation Council Nomenclature |
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CCIO |
Classification of Commodities by Industrial Origin |
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CCSA |
Committee for the Co-ordination of Statistical Activities (United Nations) |
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CCT |
Common Customs Tariff |
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CDR |
Career Development Review |
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CEI |
Classification of Trade in Invisibles |
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| CEIES | The European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres | |
| Cemac | Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa | |
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CEN |
European Committee for Standardisation |
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CENEX |
Centres of Excellence |
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| Census hub | Conceptually new system to achieve the dissemination of the 2011 census data. It is based on the concept of data sharing, where a group of partners agree on providing access to their data according to standard processes, formats and technologies | |
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CERN |
European centre for nuclear research |
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CES |
Conference of European Statisticians |
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CET |
Central European Time |
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| CF | "Chef de File" | |
| CG1, CG2, etc | Coordination Group (CG1 "New Vision for European Statistics", CG2 "GDP and Beyond ", CG3 "Spatial Dimension in Statistics", CG 4 "EU KLEMS", CG5 "Coordination of Quality Work", CG6 "Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEIs) including the EFC Status Report", CG7 "Single Market Monitoring") | |
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CGB |
Central Government Budget |
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| CGST | Coordination Group for Statistics on Transport | |
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CIF |
Cost, insurance, freight |
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| CIO | Chief Information Officer | |
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CIRCA |
Communication and Information Resource Centre Administrator (an Internet based groupware tool) |
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CIRCABC |
Communication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (https://circabc.europa.eu/faces/jsp/extension/wai/navigation/container.jsp) |
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CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
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CIS |
Community Innovation Survey |
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| CISnet | Computer application for Interservice consultations | |
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CITES |
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora |
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CLASET |
An EDI message - for the exchange of classification structures and definition, correspondence tables, codelists and lifecycle |
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CLOUD EC |
Platform that provides an environment supporting volume spikes, peak periods, new programs, work-from-home agents, etc, with no additional on-site hardware and no new software requirements (http://www.noblesys.com/Files/PDF/Products/PS_Noble_Cloud_EC.pdf) |
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CLRTAP |
Convention on Long-Range, Transboundary Air Pollution |
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CSU (ČSÚ) |
Czech Statistical Office (Český statistický úřad) |
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CLSD |
Current lifestyle deprivation index |
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CLUSTERS |
Classification for Land Use Statistics: Eurostat Remote Sensing |
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CMDB |
Configuration Management DataBase |
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CMFB |
Committee for Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics |
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CN |
Combined Nomenclature |
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CN8 |
Combined Nomenclature (at eight digit level) |
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CNA |
Competent National Authority |
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CNRS |
National centre for scientific research (France) |
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COBIT |
Common Objectives for Business Information Technology |
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| CODED | Concepts and Definitions Database | |
| CODIF | Dissemination Committee | |
| COFO | Training Manager (Correspondant Formation) | |
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COFOG |
Classification of the Functions of Government |
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| COG | Content Oriented Guidelines (SDMX) | |
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COICOP |
Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose |
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COICOP/HBS |
Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose Adapted to the Needs of Household Budget Surveys |
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COICOP/HICP |
Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose Adapted to the Needs of Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices |
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COLI |
Cost of Living Index |
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| Comesca | Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa | |
| COMET | Committee for Metadata | |
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COMEXT |
Eurostat reference database for external trade statistics production and dissemination |
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| COMM | Directorate-General "Communication" | |
| COMP | Directorate-General "Competition" | |
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CoP |
Code of Practice |
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COPNI |
Classification of the purposes of non-profit institutions |
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COPP |
Classification of outlays of producers by purpose |
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| CORA | COmmon Reference Architecture | |
| CoRD | Coordination of Raw Data Collection | |
| CORE | Common Reference Environment | |
| CoSSI | Common Structure of Statistical Information | |
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CP |
Commercial Paper |
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| CPA | Country Profile Application | |
| CPA | Statistical Classification of Products by Activity in the European Economic Community | |
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CPC |
Central Product Classification |
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CPI |
Consumer Price Index |
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CPSA |
Standing Committee for Agricultural Statistics |
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CR LCS |
Council Regulation on Labour Cost Structure |
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CR SBR |
Council Regulation on Statistical Business Registers |
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CR SBS |
Council Regulation on Structural Business Statistics |
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CR STS |
Council Regulation on Short Term Statistics |
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| CRA | Common Reference Architecture | |
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CRSU |
Council Regulation on Statistical Units |
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CSB |
Assistants at Directorate level working mainly on finance issues |
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CSF |
Community Support Framework |
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CSO |
Central Statistics Office (Statistical office of Ireland) |
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CST |
Statistical and Tariff Classification for International Trade |
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CSTAT |
Committee on Statistics |
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CSTE |
Commodity Classification for Statistics of Transport in Europe |
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| CTI | Informatics Technical Committee (CTI = Comité Technique Informatique) | |
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CUDD |
Heads of Unit of Directorate D (Chefs d'unité de la Direction D) | |
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CVD |
Cycle de Vie des Données (Data Life Cycle) (French abbreviation for "Data Life Cycle": strategic project which aims to rationalise the statistical production chain in Eurostat from data collection to dissemination) |
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| CVD-MH | CVD Metadata Handler | |
| CVDSC | CVD Steering Committee | |
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CVT |
Continuing Vocational Training |
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CVTS |
Continuing Vocational Training Survey |
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CYBERNEWS |
Eurostat's intranet network |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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DA |
Differentiated Appropriations |
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DAC |
Development Assistance Committee of the OECD |
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| DatQAM | Data Quality Assessment Methods and Tools | |
| DBB | Derivation building block | |
| DCBB | Statistical disclosure control building block | |
| DCRO | Data Collection Responsible Officer | |
| DDI | Data Documentation Initiative | |
| DE | Data Explorer | |
| DESAP | Development of a Self-Assessment Programme | |
| DESIS | External service provision for DEvelopment, Studies and support for Information Systems (DIGIT Framework contracts: a contractual way of satisfying the needs for information systems development, maintenance, studies and support) | |
| DEV | Directorate-General "Development" | |
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DG |
Director General |
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DGINS |
Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes |
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| DGT | Directorate-General "Translation" | |
| DIF | Data in focus | |
| DIGIT | Directorate-General "Informatics" | |
| DIME | Directors of Methodology | |
| DIME-ITDG | Directors of Methodology - Information technologies Directors Group | |
| DIMESA | Directors' meeting for environmental statistics and accounts | |
| DLBB | Data Loader Building Block | |
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DM |
Directors' meeting (has an advisory function to the Director General; it is a forum for discussion on the basis of which the Director General takes decisions) |
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| DMA | Domain Manager | |
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DMO |
Document Management Officer |
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| DOI | Digital Object Identifier (www.doi.org) | |
| DOR | Demande d'Organisation de Réunion / request for organising a meeting | |
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DOSIS |
Development Of Statistical Information Systems |
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DOSME |
Demography of Small and Medium Enterprises |
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DOUCEUR |
DOcument Utiles et Commun à EURostat |
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| DPC | Data Protection Coordinator | |
| DQAF | Data Quality Assessment Framework (IMF) | |
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DRP |
Disaster recovery plan |
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DRS |
Debtor reporting system |
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| DS | Dedicated Section | |
| DSD | Data Structure Definition | |
| DSS | Directors of Social Statistics | |
| DTA | Desktop Administrator | |
| DTC | Data Transmission Courier | |
| DTS | DIGIT Training Service (DIGIT = Directorate-General "Informatics") | |
| DWB | Data without Boundaries | |
| DWG | Dissemination Working Group | |
| DWH | Data Warehouse | |
| DWS | Data warehouse system | |
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DEFINITION |
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| EA | Enterprise Architecture | |
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EAA |
Economic Accounts for Agriculture |
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| EAC | Directorate-General "Education and Culture" | |
| EAS | Directorate-General "Agriculture and Rural Development" | |
| EAS | European Administrative School | |
| EBB | Editing building block | |
| EBR | European Business Register | |
| ECAS | European Commission Authentication Service | |
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ECB |
European Central Bank |
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ECB/SD |
European Central Bank / Statistics Division |
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ECE |
Economic Commission for Europe - of the United Nations |
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| ECFIN | Directorate-General "Economic and Financial Affairs" | |
| ECHO | Directorate-General "Humanitarian Aid" | |
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ECHP |
European Community Household Panel (replaced by SILC) |
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| eCOLLECT | Component of Edamis | |
| Ecowas | Economic Community Of West African States | |
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ECSC |
European Community of Steel and Coal |
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ECU |
European Currency Unit - Replaced by the Euro |
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EDAF |
European Data Access Forum |
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eDAMIS |
Electronic Data files Administration and Management Information System |
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EDC |
Enhanced Dissemination Chain |
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EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
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EDICOM |
Electronic Data Interchange on COMmerce |
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| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport | |
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EDIFLOW |
Database describing dataflows received by Eurostat, the senders and the receivers of the data |
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| EDMS | Electronic Document Management System | |
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EDP |
Excessive Deficit Procedure |
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EEA |
European Economic Area |
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EEA |
European Environment Agency |
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EEAICP |
European Economic Area Index of Consumer Prices |
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| EEAS | European External Action Service | |
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EEC |
European Economic Community |
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EEEA |
European Environmental Economic Accounts |
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EFC |
Economic and Financial Committee |
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EFF |
Extended fund facility |
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EFICS |
European Forestry Information and Communication System |
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EFQM |
European Foundation for Quality Management |
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EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
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| EGR | EuroGroups Register | |
| EHQR | ESS Handbook for Quality Reports | |
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EIB |
European Investment Bank |
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| EIBB | Economic Indices Building Block | |
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EICP |
European Index of Consumer Prices |
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| EIF | European Interoperability Framework | |
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EIMS |
European Innovation Monitoring System |
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| EIP | Excessive Imbalances Procedure | |
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EIPA |
European Institute of Public Administration |
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EIS |
European Interoperability Strategy |
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| ELARG | Directorate-General "Enlargement" | |
| eLink | Middelware building block of IDABC services | |
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EMAS |
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme |
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EMI |
European Monetary Institute |
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| EMIS | Explanatory Metadata Information System | |
| EMOS | European Master in Official Statistics | |
| EMPL | Directorate-General "Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities" | |
| EMU | Economic and Monetary Union | |
| ENP | European Neighbourhood Policy | |
| ENTR | Directorate-General "Enterprise and Industry" | |
| ENV | Directorate-General "Environment" | |
| EO | Equal Opportunities | |
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EODS |
European Occupational Diseases Statistics |
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EP |
European Parliament |
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EPC |
European Patent Convention (=Munich Convention) |
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EPE |
Environmental Protection Expenditure |
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EPIS |
Environmental Pressure Information System |
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| EPMS | Eurostat Process Metadata Structure | |
| EPO | European Patent Office | |
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EPROS |
European Plan for Research in Official Statistics |
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| EPSO | European Personnel Selection Office | |
| EPSS | European Programme of Social Surveys | |
| ERA | European Research Area | |
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ERDF |
European Regional Development Fund |
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| ERDR TF | Task Force on Electronic Data Reporting (aimed at sharing solutions and experiences of electronic reporting of raw data, covering issues related to the content, techniques and management) | |
| ERETES | Software programme for national accounts | |
| ERIS | European Regional Innovation Survey | |
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ES |
Enterprise Surveys |
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| ESA 95 | European System of Accounts | |
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ESA |
European System of Accounts |
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| ESAC | European Statistical Advisory Committee | |
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ESAF |
Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility |
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ESAW |
European Statistics on Accidents at Work |
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ESC |
Eurostat "Safe Centre" |
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ESC |
Economic and Social Committee |
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| ESCB | European System of Central Banks | |
| ESDS | Economic and Social Data Service | |
| ESeC | European Socio-economic Classification | |
| ESGAB | European Statistical Governance Advisory Board | |
| ESHSI | European Survey on Health and Social Integration | |
| ESI | Economic Sentiment Indicator | |
| ESMS | Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure | |
| ESMS IP | Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure Indicator Profile | |
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ESOD |
European schedule of occupational diseases |
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| ESP | Eurostat Statistical Programme | |
| ESPAC | Eurostat Statistical Process Assessment Checklist | |
| ESQR | ESS Standard for Quality Reports | |
| ESQRS | ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure | |
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ESS |
European Statistical System |
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| ESSC | European Statistical System Committee | |
| ESS-CVD | Extension of the CVD (Cycle de Vie des Données - Data Life Cycle) concept to the ESS | |
| ESS-DISC | European Statistical System DISsemination and Communication strategy | |
| ESS EA | European Statistical System Enterprise Architecture | |
| ESS-MH | European Statistical System Metadata Handler | |
| ESSNets | European Statistical System collaboration networks (projects carried out by a team of institutions aiming at developing results which can be used by the whole ESS community) | |
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ESSPROS |
European system of intregrated social protection statistics |
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| ESTAT | Eurostat | |
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ESTP |
European Statistical Training System |
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ESU |
European size unit |
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| eTF | Electronic Task Force | |
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EU |
European Union |
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EU-KLEMS |
EU level analysis of capital (K), labour (L), energy (E), materials (M) and service (S) inputs on a detailed activity level: statistical and analytical research project to analyse productivity and growth across Europe | |
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EUR |
Euro |
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EUREKA |
European Research Co-ordination Agency |
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| EUROBASE | Eurostat reference database (has replaced NewCronos) | |
| EUROCUBE | Statistical production system managing mulidimensional data, based on Oracle Olap (on line analytical processing) | |
| EUROFARM | Project for standardisation of methods for obtaining agricultural statistics | |
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EUROIND |
European and national short term indicators |
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EUROSTAT |
Statistical Office of the European Communities |
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| Eurotrace | Software programme for external trade | |
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EU-SILC |
Community statistics on income and living conditions |
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| EVA | Family of end-user interfaces operating on NewCronos data for advanced or occasional users | |
| eVE | eDAMIS Validation Engine | |
| eWA | eDAMIS Web Access | |
| eWF | eDAMIS Web Forms | |
| eWP | eDAMIS Web Portal | |
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EXTRASTAT |
Statistics of Member States' trade in goods with non Member States |
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DEFINITION |
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FADN |
Farm Accountancy Data Network |
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| FAME | Statistical production system specialised in processing time series (Forecasting Analytical Modelling Environment) | |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations | |
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FATS |
Foreign Affiliates Statistics |
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| FD | Financing Decision | |
| FDES | Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics | |
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FDI |
Foreign direct investment |
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| FIDES | Financing Decision System | |
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FIFO |
First-in-first-out |
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FIPREP |
Financial Initiation of Payments REPorting |
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FISIM |
Financial intermediation services indirectly measured |
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FOB |
Free on board |
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| FP6 | Sixth Framework Programme | |
| FRIBS | Framework Regulation Integrating Business Statistics | |
| FRIC | Framework Regulation Integrating Classifications | |
| FRIM | Framework Regulation Integrating processes, standards and metadata | |
| FRIS | Framework Regulation Integrating Social Statistics | |
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FROCH |
FReinds Of the CHair group |
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FROOP |
Frequent out-of-pocket purchases |
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| FSC | Food supply chain | |
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FSS |
Farm Structure Survey |
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FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| GA | Guided Access | |
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GBAORD |
Government budget appropriations or outlays on research and development |
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GBI |
Gestionnaire des biens inventoriés |
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| GCOMX | Generic COMEXT | |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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GEONOM |
Nomenclature of countries and territories for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States |
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GERD |
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D |
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GERDR |
Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D in a given year at the regional level |
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| GESMES | GEneral Statistical MESsage | |
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GFCF |
Gross fixed capital formation |
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GHG |
Greenhouse gas |
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GIC |
Gross inland (energy) consumption |
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GIS |
Geographical Information System |
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GISCO |
Geographical Information System of the Commission |
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| GLC | Group of Local Coordinators | |
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GNI |
Gross National Income |
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| GNP | Gross National Product | |
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GOV |
Government sector |
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GOVERD |
R&D Expenditure in the Government Sector |
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GOVERDR |
R&D Expenditure in the Government Sector in a given year at the regional level |
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| GOVIS | GOVernance for Information Systems (IT tool for the maintenance of the inventory of IS systems) | |
| GPO | Group Policies Object | |
| GPS | Generic Production System, based on MDT | |
| GSAST | Generic SAS Tool, a generic system for treating micro-data and operations of micro and macro-data from surveys | |
| GSBPM | Generic Statistical Business Process Model | |
| GSIM | Generic Statistical Information Model | |
| GTFOR | Group of REFOI from all DGs in the Commission (REFOI = Responsible for Informatics Training) | |
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GUF |
General university funds |
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GVA |
Gross value added |
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DEFINITION |
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HBS |
Household Budget Survey |
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HERD |
R&D expenditure in the Higher Education Sector |
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HERDR |
R&D expenditure in the Higher Education Sector in a given year at the regional level |
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HES |
Higher education sector |
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| HETUS | Harmonised European Time Use Survey | |
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HFCE |
Household Final Consumption Expenditure |
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HFMCE |
Household Final Monetary Consumption Expenditure |
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HICP |
Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices |
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| HICP-AP | Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices - Administered Prices | |
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HICP-CT |
Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices at Constant Taxes |
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HIPCs |
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries |
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| HLCIT | High Level Committee on IT (Information Technologies) (highest IT body in the Commission) | |
| HLG-BAS | High Level Group for Strategic Directions in Business Architecture in Statistics | |
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HMP |
Programme of Community action on health monitoring |
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HORECA |
Hotel and restaurant sector (HORECA is an acronym for Hotel, Restaurant, Café) |
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| HoS | Head of Section | |
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HoU |
Head of Unit |
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| HPI | House Price Indices | |
| HR | Human resources | |
| HR | Directorate-General "Human Resources and Security" | |
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HRST |
Human resources in Science and Technology |
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HRSTC |
Human resources in Science and Technology Core |
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HRSTE |
Human Resources in Science and Technology Education |
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HRSTI |
Human Resources in Science and Technology Inactive |
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HRSTN |
Human resources in Science and Technology employed in a non S&T occupation |
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HRSTO |
Human resources in Science and Technology Occupation |
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HRSTU |
Human Resources in Science and Technology Unemployed |
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HRSTW |
Human resources in Science and Technology without third level education |
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HS |
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System |
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| HUB | Meeting of Heads of Units of Directorate B | |
| HUM | Meeting of Heads of Units (meeting composed of the Director-General, the deputy Director-General, the Directors, the Principle Adviser, the Heads of Unit, the Advisers and the Assistant to the Director-General) | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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IAC |
Internal Audit Capacity |
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IACS |
Integrated Administration and Control System |
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IAOS |
International Association for Official Statistics |
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IAS |
International Accounting Standards |
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IAS |
Internal Audit Service |
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IASB |
International Accounting Standards Board |
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IASC |
International Accounting Standards Committee |
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IASS |
International Association for Statistical Computing |
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IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
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IBRD |
SeeInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
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IBSFC |
International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission |
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ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organisation |
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ICD |
International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems |
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ICES |
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
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ICGS |
International standard Classification of all Goods and Services |
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ICS |
Internal Control Standards |
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ICSA |
Internal Control Standards Assessment |
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ICSE |
International standard Classification of Status in Employment |
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ICST (94) |
International Classification of Ships by Type, Revised 1994 |
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ICT |
Information and Communication Technologies |
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IDA |
Interchange of Data between Administrations |
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IDA |
International Development Association |
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| IDABC | Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (a Community programme managed by the European Commission's Directorate General for Informatics) | |
| IDB | Injury Database (https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sanco/heidi/index.php/IDB) | |
| IEA | International Energy Agency | |
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IEEAF |
Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Forestry |
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IFFIM |
International Finance Facility for Immunisation |
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IFRS 2 Share-based Payment |
International Financial Reporting Standard 2 Share-based Payment |
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| IFRS | International Financial Reporting Standard | |
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IIP |
International investment position |
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ILO |
International Labour Organization |
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IM |
Intramuros |
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IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
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INE (E) |
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Statistical office of Spain) |
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INE (P) |
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Statistical office of Portugal) |
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| INFSO | Directorate-General "Information Society and Media" | |
| Insee (F) | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques / French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies | |
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INSPIRE |
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe |
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| INTRASTAT | Statistics of Member States' trade in goods with other Member States | |
| IOP | Inter Operability | |
| IPA | Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance | |
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IPC |
International Patent Classification |
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IPD |
Implicit price deflator |
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IPG |
Information Providers Guide |
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| IPM | Interactive Policy Making (two Internet-based instruments which enable Commission to collect feedback directly from citizens) | |
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IPPE |
Index of purchasing power of the euro |
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| IPSAS | International Public Sector Accounting Standards | |
| IRM | IT Resource Manager (IT = Information technology) | |
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IS4SP |
Information Systems for Statistical Purposes |
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ISA |
Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (http://ec.europa.eu/isa/) |
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ISC |
Inter-Service Consultation |
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ISCED |
International Standard Classification of Education |
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ISCO |
International Standard Classification of Occupations |
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ISCO-88 |
International Standard Classification of Occupations |
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| ISG | Interinstitutional Style Guide | |
| ISI | International Statistical Institute | |
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ISIC |
International Standard Industrial Classification |
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ISIN |
International Security Identification Number |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
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Istat (I) |
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica / Italian National Institute of Statistics |
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ISWG |
Inter Secretariat Working Group |
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| IT | Information Technologies | |
| ITDG | Information Technologies Directors Group | |
| ITIC | IT Informatic Consolidation | |
| ITIL | Information Technology Infrastructure Library | |
| ITMP | Information Technologies Master Plan | |
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ITRS |
International transaction reporting system |
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ITS |
International Trade Statistics |
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ITS |
International Trade in Services |
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ITSC |
IT Steering Committee (internal to Eurostat) (The high-level group for IT governance in Eurostat. It represents the view of the business units in IT decisions, and takes decisions in the implementation of the IT strategy as expressed in the IT Master Plan) |
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ITU |
Intermodal transport unit |
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IWT |
Inland waterways transport |
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IWWP |
Industrial waste water plants |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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JAMIE |
Joint Action on Monitoring Injuries in Europe (http://ec.europa.eu/eahc/projects/database.html?prjno=20102205) |
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JFSQ |
Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire |
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JLS |
Directorate-General "Justice, Freedom and Security" |
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| JMO | Jean Monnet Building | |
| JOINUP | Collaborative platform created by the European Commission in order to offer a new set of services to help e-Government professionals share their experience with interoperability solutions and support them to find, choose, re-use, develop, and implement open source software and semantic interoperability assets (http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/) | |
| JOSGAP | Joint Overall Statistical Greek Action Plan | |
| JRC | Joint Research Centre | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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KAU |
Kind-of-activity-unit |
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KIS |
Classification of knowledge intensive services |
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KLEMS or EU-KLEMS |
EU level analysis of capital (K), labour (L), energy (E), materials (M) and service (S) inputs on a detailed activity level: statistical and analytical research project to analyse productivity and growth across Europe | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| LAB | Eurostat Laboratory for developments in cross-cutting statistical domains | |
| LAS | Legislative Advancement Sheet | |
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LAU |
Local administrative units |
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| LC | Local Coordinator (the main contact point to Eurostat for the effective implementation of electronic data transmission and a contact point for members of their own organisation) | |
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LCI |
Labour cost index |
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LCS-R |
Council Regulation on Labour Cost Structure |
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| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Internet protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a server) | |
| LDF | Learning & Development Framework | |
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LEG |
Leadership Expert Group |
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LFS |
Labour Force Survey |
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LIBOR |
London Interbank Offered Rate |
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LIFO |
Last-in-first-out |
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| LISO | Local Informatics Security Officer | |
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LLL |
Life Long Learning |
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LMP |
Labour Market Policy |
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Local KAU |
Local kind-of-activity unit |
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Local UHP |
Local unit of homogeneous production |
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LRA |
Local Registration Authority |
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| LSO | Local Security Officer | |
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LSU |
Livestock Unit |
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LTAA |
Long term annual average |
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LUCAS |
Land Use and Cover by Area frame Sampling |
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| LUZ | Larger Urban Zones (Urban Audit) | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| MAP | Multi-Annual Programming | |
| MAPS | Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics | |
| MARE | Directorate-General "Maritime Affairs and Fisheries" | |
| MARKT | Directorate-General "Internal Market and Services" | |
| MATIS | Management of time Series | |
| MBE | Model based estimation | |
| MBP | Multi-Beneficiary Programme | |
| MCV | Metadata Common Vocabulary | |
| MDG | Millennium Development Goal | |
| MDT | Statistical production system for multi-dimensional tables (MDT = Multi-dimensional tables) | |
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Medstat |
An EU regional programme for co-operation between Euro-Mediterranean statistical institutes |
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MEDTOUR |
Euro-Mediterranean co-operation in tourism statistics |
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| MEETS | Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade Statistics | |
| MEP | Member of European Parliament | |
| Mercosur | Southern Common Market (Mercado común del Sur) | |
| METIS | Statistical Metadata (Eurostat/UNECE – Metadata Work Session) | |
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MFI |
Monetary financial institution |
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| MH | Metadata Handler | |
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MIGs |
Main Industrial Groupings |
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MIMAC |
Middle Management Committee |
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| MIP | Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure | |
| MIPS | Computer application for the management of missions | |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding | |
| Move | Management of vision at Eurostat / European Statistical System | |
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MPP |
Main (public) power producer |
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MS |
Member State |
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| MSD | Metadata Structure Definition | |
| MSIS | Management of statistical information systems | |
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MSITS |
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services |
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MSW |
Municipal solid waste |
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MTC |
Maritime Transport Commodity Classification |
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MUICP |
Monetary Union Index of Consumer Prices |
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| MWG | Metadata Working Group | |
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MYRA |
Multiyear Rescheduling Agreement |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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NA |
National Accounts |
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NA/BOP |
National Accounts / Balance of Payments |
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NABS |
Nomenclature for the Analysis and Comparison of Science Programmes and Budgets |
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NACE |
EU statistical classification of economic activities - breakdown of ISIC |
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| NACE 1970 | Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, 1970 version (NACE stands for Nomenclature générale des activités économiques dans les Communautés européennes) | |
| NACE Rev. 1 | Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, Revision 1 (NACE stands for Nomenclature générale des activités économiques dans les Communautés européennes) | |
| NACE/CLIO | General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities in the European Communities - version used for the input-output tables (European System of Accounts 1979) | |
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Nafta |
North American Free Trade Association |
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NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
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NAMEA |
National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts |
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| NAPS | National Account Production System | |
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NCB |
National Central Bank |
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NDA |
Non-Differentiated Appropriations |
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NDP |
Net Domestic Product |
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NEAFC |
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission |
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NEC (n.e.c.) |
Not elsewhere classified |
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| NEWCRONOS | The New Cronos reference database contains around 100 million statistical data covering every economic and social sector. The information normally covers all European Union Member States; in many cases it is also available for Japan, the United States of America and other Union trade partners. | |
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NG |
Network Group |
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| NGO | Non-governmental organisation | |
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NIMEXE |
Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States |
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NIS |
New Independent States (former Soviet Union republics) |
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NMR |
National Methodological Report |
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NNAs |
National Numbering Agencies |
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| NOAP | Next Office Automation Platform | |
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NOMCOM |
Nomenclature Commun - classification of master files |
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NORIS |
Nomenclature Of Research In Statistics |
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NOSE |
Nomenclature for Sources of Emissions |
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NPIs |
Non-profit institution |
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NPISHs |
Non-profit institutions serving households |
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NPO |
National Patent Office |
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NPV |
Net Present Value of Debt |
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NQG |
NewCronos Query Generator |
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| NRME | National Reference Metadata Editor | |
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NSA |
Not Seasonally Adjusted |
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NSI |
National Statistical Institute |
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|
NSS |
National statistical system |
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NST/R |
Standard Goods Classification for Transport Statistics, revised |
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| NTTS | New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics | |
| NUACs | National Urban Audit Coordinators (Urban Audit) | |
| NUTS | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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ODA |
Official Development Assistance |
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| ODBB | Outlier Detection Building Block | |
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OECD |
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
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| OIB | Office for Infrastructures and Logistics in Brussels | |
| OIL | Office for Infrastructures and Logistics in Luxembourg | |
| OLAF | European Anti-Fraud Office | |
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ONS |
Office of National Statistics (UK) |
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| OOH | Owner Occupied Housing (Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices) | |
| OP | Publications Office | |
|
OS |
Operating System |
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| OSOR | Open Source Observatory and Repository project for European public administrations (OSOR and SEMIC merged into JOINUP in December 2011) | |
| OSS | Open Source Software | |
|
OST |
Office for Science and Technology |
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ÖSTAT |
Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt |
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|
TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| Palop | African Countries of Portuguese Official Language | |
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PANORAMA |
A Eurostat reference database - includes profiles and analysis of over 25 major industrial sectors, the current market forces affecting them, environmental and regulatory considerations and trends for the future |
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| Paris21 | Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century | |
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PCC |
Potential Candidate Country |
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PCT |
Patent Co-operation Treaty |
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|
PDA |
Personal digital assistant |
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|
PDB |
Provisional Draft Budget |
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| PDU | Unit Development Plan (PDU = Plan de développement de l'unité) | |
| PEEI | Principal European Economic Indicators | |
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PEGSCO |
Pan-European eGovernment Services Committee (takes the decisions on IDABC projects) |
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|
PG |
Partnership Group (Group of Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes of the ESS whose mission is to further the development of the ESS through, mainly, facilitating the work of the ESS Committee) |
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| PGTF2, 3 | Partnership Group Task Force on Statistical Challenges (2) and Use of Resources (3) | |
| Phare | Action plan for coordinated aid to Poland and Hungary (subsequently extended to the remainder of the Central and East European countries). It comprises programmes financed by the EU since 1990 to assist with economic restructuring in the Central and East European countries. | |
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PIAP |
Public Internet Access Point |
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|
PIM |
Process Improvement Methodology |
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|
PIM |
Perpetual inventory method |
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|
PLANe |
Electronic Planification and Monitoring System (the letters which make up the acronym have no meaning as such) |
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PLC |
Project Life Cycle |
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PLI |
Price level index |
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PMM |
Project Management Methodology |
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| PMO | Office for Administration and Payment of Individual Entitlements | |
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PNP |
Private non-profit sector |
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PNPERD |
R&D expenditure in the Private Non Profit Sector |
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PNPERDR |
R&D expenditure in the Private Non Profit Sector in a given year at the regional level |
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PPI |
Producer price indices |
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|
PPId |
Producer price indices of the domestic market |
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|
PPIx |
Producer price indices on the export market |
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PPP |
Purchasing Power Parity |
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PPPs |
Public-private partnerships |
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PPS |
Purchasing Power Standard |
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|
PQ |
Parliamentary Question |
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PRGF |
Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility |
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PrinCESSe |
PrinCESSe - DIGIT framework contract for printers replacement |
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PROCOME |
Classification and Coding of the Purposes of Final Consumption of Households |
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|
PRODCOM |
European Comunity Industry Production (statistics of industrial production) |
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|
PSI |
Provider of Statistical Information |
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PST |
Project Support Team |
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PTM |
Proximity Times and Means |
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PV/X |
Present Value of Debt-to-Exports Ratio |
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|
TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| QAF | Quality Assurance Framework | |
|
QNA |
Quarterly National Accounts |
|
| QPI's | Quality and performance indicators | |
| QTM | Quoted Time and Means (form to be used for specific contracts under a framework contract) | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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RAA |
Regional Agricultural Accounts |
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R&D |
Research and Development |
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|
RAMON |
Reference Architecture for Metadata Online (Eurostat's Metadata Server) | |
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RC |
Reference Configuration |
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|
RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
|
| RDF | Resource Description Framework (Family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax formats) | |
| RE | Reference Environment | |
| REFOI | Responsible for Informatics Training | |
|
REGIO |
Eurostat database of regional statistics |
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| REGIO | Directorate-General "Regional Policy" | |
| RELEX | Directorate-General "External relations" | |
| RELOP | Local Career Guidance Officer | |
| REMI |
Renewal of e-mail infrastructure (DIGIT project; in practical terms, extension of mailbox quota to 500 MB and few other improvements) |
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| REPROM | Re-engineering the production methods of EU statistics | |
|
RICA |
Réseau d'Information Comptable Agricole (FADN = Farm Accountancy Data Network) |
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|
RIDER |
Interdisciplinary Research on Regional Development |
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| RME | Reference Metadata Editor | |
| RMF | Reference Metadata File | |
|
ROS |
Research in Official Statistics |
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| RPPI | Residential Property Price Indexes | |
| RR | Rolling Review | |
| RTD | Directorate-General "Research" | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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S&T |
Science and Technology |
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|
SA |
Seasonal adjustment |
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| SAB | Sharing Advisory Board | |
| SABB | Seasonal Adjustment Building Block | |
|
SAF |
Structural Adjustment Facility |
|
|
SafeGuard LAN Crypt |
Ultimate data protection enabling secure team collaboration while protecting against internal threats |
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|
SAM |
Directors meeting on staff and administrative matters |
|
|
SAM |
Social accounting matrix |
|
| SAM | Statistical production system managing multidimensional data, oriented more to simple domains (Statistical Administration and Management) | |
| SANCO | Directorate-General "Health and Consumer Protection" | |
| SAPM | Survey on Agricultural Production Methods | |
| SASG | Seasonal adjustment steering group | |
|
SBR |
Statistical Business Register |
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|
SBR-R |
Council Regulation on Statistical Business Registers |
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SBS |
Structural Business Statistics |
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|
SBS-R |
Council Regulation on Structural Business Statistics |
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| SCD | Sub-City Districts (Urban Audit) | |
| SCIC | Directorate-General "Interpretation" | |
| SCL | Standard Code Lists | |
|
SDC |
Statistical Disclosure Control |
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SDDS |
Special Data Dissemination Standard | |
|
SDI |
Sustainable Development Indicators |
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|
SDMX |
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange |
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|
SDMX-DDI |
SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) + DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) |
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|
SDMX-EDI |
EDIFACT format for exchange of SDMX-structured data and metadata |
|
| SDMX-IM | SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) Information Model | |
| SDMX-ML | SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) + XML (extensive mark-up language) | |
| SDMX-RI | Reference Infrastructure based on the SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) standard | |
| SDMX-SWG | SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) Statistical Working Group | |
| SDMX-TWG | SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) Technical Working Group | |
| SDMX-WS | SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange) Web Services | |
| SDWS | SDMX Dissemination Web Service | |
| SECEM | Procedure for encrypting or digitally sign e-mails for exchanging sensitive information | |
| SEEA | System of integrated environmental economic accounts | |
| SEMIC | Semantic Interoperability Centre (SEMIC and OSOR merged into JOINUP in December 2011) | |
| SEP | Single Entry Point | |
|
SERT |
Business Statistics and Telematic Networks (Statistique d'Entreprises et Réseaux Télématiques) |
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|
SES |
Structure of Earnings Survey |
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|
SFTC |
Standard Foreign Trade Classification (COMECON) |
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| SG | Secretariat-General | |
|
SGM |
Standard gross margin |
|
| SHODI | Simple HOt Deck Imputation | |
|
SI |
Structural Indicators |
|
|
SI2 |
See SINCOM |
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| SICON | Secure infrastructure for sharing confidential data | |
|
SICS |
Statistical Indicators Common Sites - e.g. Euro SICS |
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|
SICTA |
Standard International Classification of Tourism Activities |
|
|
SIF |
Statistics in Focus |
|
|
SILC |
Statistics on Income and Living Conditions |
|
| SIM | Service Impact Manager | |
| SIMPLE | Single Integrated Management PLan for Eurostat | |
| SIMSTAT | Single Market Statistics | |
|
SINCOM |
System for follow up of financial transactions in the Commission |
|
| SIRE | European infra-regional information system (Système d’informations infrarégionales européen) | |
| SISAI | Statistical Information Systems Architecture and Integration | |
|
SITC REV.3 |
Standard Industrial Trade Classification, third revision |
|
| SJ | Legal Service | |
|
SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
|
|
SLIM |
Simpler Legislation in the Internal Market |
|
|
SLIM |
Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market - a European Council initiative |
|
|
SME |
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
|
|
SNA |
System of National Accounts (United Nations) |
|
| SNA 93 | System of National Accounts from 1993 (United Nations) | |
| SO | Standard Output | |
| SO | System Owner | |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture | |
|
SODI |
SDMX Open Data Interchange (an alignment project under SDMX, a proof of its concept of data sharing, within the European Statistical System) |
|
|
SOEC |
Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) |
|
| SoS | Sponsorship on Standardisation | |
|
SOS |
Staff Opinion Survey |
|
|
SPC |
Statistical Programme Committee |
|
| SPP-ABM | Strategic Planning Process - Activity Based Management | |
| SpS | Sponsorship on Standardization | |
| SQ | Sponsorship on Quality | |
| SRC | Statistical Requirements Compendium | |
|
SRE |
Statistical Regions of Europe |
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|
SS |
System Supplier |
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|
SSA |
Supported Self-Assessment |
|
|
STA |
Scientific and Technological Activities |
|
|
STADIUM |
STAtistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor |
|
|
STATEL |
STAtistical TELetransmission |
|
| STATPUB | Tool for publication flow management | |
|
StBa (D) |
Statistisches Bundesamt (Statistical office of Germany) |
|
|
STET |
Scientific and Technical Education and Training |
|
|
STI |
Science, Technology and Innovation |
|
|
STNE |
Statistics Telematic Network and EDI |
|
|
STPFS |
Short Term Public Finance Statistics |
|
|
STRIDE |
Science and Technology for Regional Innovation and Development in Europe |
|
|
STS |
Short-Term Statistics |
|
|
STS |
Scientific and Technological Services |
|
|
STS-R |
Council Regulation on Short Term Statistics |
|
|
SVC |
Statistical Value Chain |
|
|
SWP |
Statistical Work Programme |
|
|
SYSLOG |
System for follow up of training in the Commission |
|
|
SYSPER |
Information system for the human resource management of the Commission |
|
| SYSRES | SYStème de REServation online de salles de réunion (BECH et JMO) | |
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TERM |
DEFINITION |
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| TAB | Technical Advisory Board | |
|
Tacis |
EU technical assistance programme for the Commonwealth of the independent states and the beneficiary countries hereof |
|
|
TAPAS |
Technical Action Plans for Agricultural Statistics |
|
|
TARIC |
Integrated Tariff of the European Communities |
|
| TAXUD | Directorate-General "Taxation and Customs Union" | |
|
TBP |
Technology Balance of Payments |
|
| TCO | Transmission COordinator | |
| TDS | Target Data Storage, generic database model | |
|
TEG |
Transnational Enterprise Group |
|
|
TF |
Task Force |
|
|
TFC |
Total final consumption |
|
| TF PS | Task Force on Priority Setting | |
| TGM | Table, Graphs and Maps; presentation tool in the dissemination database | |
| TIC | Technical Implementation Committee | |
| TMT | Tree Management Tool (Application allowing the creation of hierarchies for dissemination) | |
| TOR | Terms of Reference | |
| TOGAF | The Open Group Architecture Framework | |
|
TPP |
Technological product & process |
|
| TRADE | Directorate-General "Trade" | |
| TREN | Directorate-General "Energy and Transport" | |
| TRIS | TRansport Information System | |
|
TSA |
Tourism Satellite Accounts |
|
|
TSD |
Total Survey Design |
|
| TUS | Time Use Survey | |
| TWG | Technical Working Group | |
|
TERM |
DEFINITION |
|
|
UAA |
Utilized Agricultural Area |
|
|
UGESA |
User Group for ESS Statistical Applications (ESS = European Statistical System) |
|
|
UHP |
Unit of homogeneous production |
|
|
UN |
United Nations |
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UN/ECE |
Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations |
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UN/LOCODE |
5 character code where the first two characters are the ISO 3166 country codes while the remaining three are derived from Recommendation 16 from the UNECE in Geneva, together with Eurostat supplied codes for ports not yet included in the UN system |
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UN/SPSC |
United Nations Standard Product and Service Classifications |
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UNCCS |
United Nations Common Coding System |
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| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme | |
| UNECE | Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations | |
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UNECE CES |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Conference of European Statisticians |
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| UNESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP or ESCAP) | |
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Unesco |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
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UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
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| UNFPA | The United Nations Population Fund | |
| Unicef | United Nations Children's Fund | |
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UNIPEDE |
International Union of Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy (in 2002 merged with Eurelectric, and is now European Grouping of Electricity Undertakings, EEIG) |
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UNSC |
United Nations Statistical Committee |
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UNSD |
United Nations Statistics Division |
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| UOE | UNESCO-UIS / OECD / EUROSTAT (The administrative data collection on education systems, jointly managed by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the OECD and Eurostat) | |
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USPTO |
United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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| USS | User Satisfaction Survey | |
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VAT |
Value added tax |
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| VFAX |
Virtual Fax |
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| VIP | Vision Infrastructure Projects | |
| VIP EDC | Vision Infrastructure Projects : Enhanced Dissemination Chain | |
| VIP SICON | Vision Infrastructure Projects : Secure infrastructure for sharing confidential data | |
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| WAEMO | West African Economic and Monetary Union | |
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WBS |
Work Breakdown Structure (Project Management Methodology) |
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WCO |
World Customs Organization (former CCC - Customs Cooperation Council) |
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WG |
Working Group |
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| WGSIM | Working Group of Statistical Information Management | |
| WHO | World Health Organisation | |
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WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organisation |
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WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
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WTO |
World Tourism Organisation |
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| XBRL | eXtensible Business Reporting Language (a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data) | |
| X-DIS | XML for Data Interoperability in Statistics | |
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XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
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| XT-NET | External Trade Network | |
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| YPSILON | Young Professional Statisticians Induction And Learning Offer | |
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5YP |
Statistical Five-year Programme |
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