Often used abbreviations

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  • ABO => Accumulated benefit obligation
  • ACFM => Advisory Committee on Fishery Management
  • ACI => Airports Council International
  • ADB => Asian Development Bank
  • ADB => Analytical Data Base
  • ADP => Automated data processing
  • ADR => American depository receipt
  • ADSL => Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
  • AEA => Association of European Airlines
  • AED => United Arab Emirates Dirham
  • AFTA => ASEAN Free Trade Area
  • AI => Artificial intelligence
  • ALL => Albanian Lek
  • ALMP => Active labour market programme
  • ALPS => Adjustable long-term putable security
  • AMAD => The Agricultural Market Access Database
  • AMD => Armenian Dram
  • AMS => Aggregate measurement of support
  • AMS => Aggregate Measure of Support
  • ANBERD => Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development
  • ANOVA => Analysis of variance
  • ANSI => American National Standards Institute
  • AP => Acidifying potential
  • APEC => Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
  • APFIC => Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission
  • API => Air pollution index
  • APL => A Programme Language
  • APO => Asian Productivity Organization
  • APO => Asian Productivity Organisation
  • ASCII => American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • ASCOBANS => Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas
  • ASEAN => Association of South East Asian Nations
  • ASEAN => Association of South-East Asian Nations
  • ASYNC => Asynchronous Communication
  • ATM => Automated teller machine
  • BCBS => Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • BCD => Binary coded decimal
  • BDR => Bearer depository receipts
  • BEC => Broad Economic Categories
  • BERDR => R&D Expenditure in the Business Enterprise Sector in a given year at the regional level
  • BFTA => Bank for International Settlements
  • BIS => Baltic Free Trade Agreement
  • BIT => Binary digit
  • BLEU => Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union
  • BMI => Body Mass Index
  • BOP => Balance of Payments
  • BPS => Bits per second
  • BSE => Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
  • BST => Bovine somatotropin
  • CAESAR => World Conference on Agricultural and Environmental Statistical Applications
  • CAI => Computer assisted interviewing
  • CAI => Computer Assisted Instruction
  • CAI => Computer Assisted Interviewing
  • CAP => Common Agricultural Policy
  • CAPI => Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
  • CASE => Computer aided software engineering
  • CASE => Computer Aided Software Engineering
  • CASI => Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing
  • CASIC => Computer assisted survey information collection
  • CATI => Computer assisted telephone interviewing
  • CATI => Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
  • CBD => Convention on Biological Diversity
  • CBNE => Classification of Branches of the National Economy
  • CBT => Computer Based Training
  • CCAMLR => Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
  • CCBSP => Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea
  • CCCN => Customs Co-operation Council Nomenclature
  • CCIO => Classification of Commodities by Industrial Origin
  • CCNM => Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members
  • CCS => Carbon Capture and Storage
  • CCT => Common Customs Tariff
  • CD => Certificates of deposit
  • CDMA => Code division multiple access
  • CDR => Crude death rate
  • CECAF => Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic
  • CEFTA => Central European Free Trade Agreement
  • CEIES => European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres
  • CEN => Consumption expenditures of the population
  • CEP => European Committee for Standardisation
  • CEPA => Classification of environment protection activities
  • CES => Conference of European Statisticians
  • CFP => Common Fisheries Policy
  • CHP => Combined heat and power plants
  • CIRCA => Communication and Information Resource Centre Administrator
  • CIS => Commonwealth of Independent States
  • CIT => Countries in transition
  • CITES => Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
  • CJD => Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  • CLEC => Competing Local Exchange Carrier
  • CLI => Component series
  • CLI => Composite leading indicators
  • CMFB => Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics
  • CMO => Commercial Mobile Radio Service
  • CMRS => Collaterised mortgage obligation
  • CODED => Eurostats Concepts and Definitions Database
  • COFOG => Classification of the functions of government
  • COG => Coke oven gas
  • COICOP => Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose
  • COLI => Cost of Living Index
  • COOL => Country-of-origin labelling
  • COPC => Current operating performance concept
  • COPNI => Classification of the purposes of non-profit institutions
  • COPP => Classification of outlays of producers by purpose
  • COT => coke-oven gas
  • CPA => Classifications of Products by Activity
  • CPC => Central Product Classification
  • CPI => Inflation
  • CPI => Characters per inch
  • CPI => Consumer price index
  • CPM => Critical path method
  • CPP => Calling Party Pays
  • CPUE => Catch per unit of fishing effort
  • CRP => Conservation Reserve Program
  • CSD => Committee on Surplus Disposal
  • CSD => Central securities depository
  • CSE => Consumer Support Estimate
  • CSTE => Commodity Classification for Statistics of Transport in Europe
  • CTA => Controlled Tabular Adjustment
  • DAC => Development Assistance Committee
  • DBMS => Data base management system
  • DBMS => Database management system
  • DBS => Direct Budget Support
  • DCMI => Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
  • DEIP => Dairy Export Incentive Program
  • DGINS => Directors-General of the National Statistical Institutes
  • DIS => Data Intrusion Simulation
  • DMC => Domestic material consumption
  • DMI => Direct material input
  • DMO => Direct material output
  • DORC => Depreciated Optimized Replacement Cost
  • DOSIS => Development of Statistical Information Systems
  • DP => Dots per inch
  • DPI => Data processing
  • DPO => Domestic processed output
  • DQAF => Data Quality Assessment Framework
  • DQRS => Data Quality Reference Site
  • DRS => Debtor reporting system
  • DSIS => Distributed Statistical Information Services
  • DSL => Digital Subscriber Line
  • DTP => Desktop publishing
  • DVD => Digital video disk
  • EAA => Economic Accounts for Agriculture
  • EAFRD => European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
  • EAGF => European Agricultural Guarantee Fund
  • EAGGF => European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
  • EBA => Everything-But-Arms
  • ECB => European Central Bank
  • ECCI => European Employment Cost Index
  • ECE => Economic Commission for Europe
  • ECFIN => Economic and Financial Affairs DG
  • ECHP => European Co-ordinated Household Panels
  • ECMT => European Conference of Ministers of Transport
  • ECOFIN => Economic and Financial Affairs Council
  • ECOTRIM => Ecotrim is a program that supplies a set of mathematical and statistical techniques to carry out temporal disaggregation.
  • ECP => European comparison programme
  • ECP => Euro commercial paper
  • ECU => European Currency Unit
  • EDEN => Eurostat Dissemination Environment
  • EDI => Electronic data interchange
  • EDICOM => Electronic Data Interchange on Commerce
  • EDIFACT => Electronic Data Interchange for administration
  • EDMS => Electronic Document Management System
  • EDP => Electronic data processing
  • EEA => European Economic Area
  • EEA => European Environment Agency
  • EEP => Export Enhancement Program
  • EEZ => Exclusive Economic Zone
  • EFF => Extended fund facility
  • EFT => Electronic funds transfer
  • EFTA => European Free Trade Association
  • EFTPOS => Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of sale
  • EIA => Environmental impact assessment
  • EIB => European Investment Bank
  • EMAS => Eco-management and auditing scheme
  • EMI => European Monetary Institute
  • EMU => European Economic and Monetary Union
  • ENI => Environmentally adjusted national income
  • EP => European Parliament
  • EPC => European Payments Council
  • EPEA => Environmental protection expenditure accounts
  • EPL => Employment protection legislation
  • ERM => European Exchange Rate Mechanism
  • ESA => Endangered Species Act
  • ESA => European System of Accounts 1995
  • ESAF => Enhanced structural adjustment facility
  • ESCB => European System of Central Banks
  • ESS => European Statistical System
  • EUR => Euro
  • FAME => Forecasting Analysis and Modelling Environment
  • FAO => Food and Agriculture Organization
  • FAO => Food and Agriculture Organisation
  • FATS => Foreign Affiliates Trade in Services
  • FAX => Facsimile devices
  • FCC => Federal Communications Commission
  • FDES => Framework for the development of environment statistics
  • FDI => Foreign Direct Investment
  • FEPI => Final expenditure price index
  • FFA => South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency
  • FIFG => Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance
  • FIFO => First-in-first-out
  • FIOPI => Fixed-input output price index
  • FIPS => Foreign Interest Payment Security
  • FISD => Framework for indicators of sustainable development
  • FISIM => Financial intermediation services indirectly measured
  • FMMO => Federal Milk Marketing Orders
  • FOIPI => Fixed-output input price index
  • FOSDIC => Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers
  • FRIACO => Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination
  • FRN => Flip-flop floating rate note
  • FSAP => Financial Sector Assessment Program
  • FSF => Financial Stability Forum
  • FSRI => Farm Security and Rural Investment
  • FTAA => Free Trade Area of the Americas
  • FTP => File transfer protocol
  • GATS => General Agreement on Trade in Services
  • GATT => General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GDDS => General Data Dissemination System
  • GDP => Gross domestic product
  • GDP => Nominal gross domestic product
  • GDP => Potential gross domestic product
  • GEIS => Generalised edit and imputation system
  • GEIS => Generalized edit and imputation system
  • GERD => Gross domestic expenditure on research and development
  • GFCM => General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean
  • GFS => Government Financial Statistics
  • GIF => Graphics Interchange Format
  • GIS => Geographical information system
  • GMO => Genetically Modified Organisms
  • GNI => Gross National Income
  • GNP => Gross National product
  • GPS => Global positioning system
  • GRT => Gross registered tonnes
  • GSM => Global system for mobile communications
  • GSP => Generalized System of Preferences
  • GSP => Generalised System of Preferences
  • GSSE => General Services Support Estimate
  • GT => Gross tonnage
  • HACCP => Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
  • HBS => Household budget surveys
  • HELCOM => Helsinki Commission
  • HELCOM => Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
  • HICP => Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
  • HTML => HyperText Mark-up Language
  • HTTP => Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
  • IAOS => International Association for Official Statistics
  • IASS => International Association of Survey Statisticians
  • IATA => International Air Transport Association
  • IBRD => International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • IBS => International Banking Statistics
  • IBSFC => International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission
  • ICAO => International Civil Aviation Organization
  • ICAO => International Civil Aviation Organisation
  • ICD => International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
  • ICES => International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
  • ICGS => International Standard Classification of all Goods and Services
  • ICIDH => International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps
  • ICP => International Comparison Programme
  • ICR => Intelligent Character Recognition
  • ICSE => International Standard Classification of Status in Employment
  • ICSE => International Classification by Status in Employment
  • IDA => International Development Association
  • IEA => International Energy Agency
  • IEC => International Electrotechnical Commission International Organisation for Standardisation
  • IFRS => International Financial Reporting Standards
  • IGU => International Geographical Union
  • IIP => International investment position
  • ILEC => Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
  • ILO => International Labour Organisation
  • IMF => International Monetary Fund
  • IOUTO => International Union of Official Travel Organizations
  • IP => Internet protocol
  • IPC => International Patent Classification
  • IRB => Internal Ratings Based approach
  • IRDI => International registration data identifier
  • ISBD => International Standard Bibliographic Description
  • ISCED => International Standard Classification of Education.
  • ISCO => International Standard Classification of Occupations
  • ISDN => Integrated Services Digital Network
  • ISEI => PISA International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status
  • ISI => International Statistical Institute
  • ISIC => International Standard Industrial Classification
  • ISIN => International Securities Identification Number
  • ISO => International Organization for Standardization
  • ISO => International Organisation for Standardisation
  • ISP => Internet Service Provider
  • ISSN => International Standard Serial Number
  • ISWG => Inter Secretariat Working Group
  • ITC => International Trade Centre
  • ITCB => International Textiles and Clothing Bureau
  • ITQ => Individual transferable quota
  • ITR => Implicit tax rate
  • ITRS => International transactions reporting system
  • ITS => International trade statistics
  • ITSQ => Individual transferable share quota
  • ITU => Intermodal transport unit
  • ITU => International Telecommunication Union
  • IUCN => International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • IWC => International Whaling Commission
  • IWT => Inland waterways transport
  • IXC => Inter-eXchange Carrier
  • JPEG => Joint Photgraphic Experts Group
  • LAN => Local area network
  • LDP => Loan Deficiency Payments
  • LEC => Local Exchange Carrier
  • LEG => Leadership Group
  • LFA => Less-favoured area
  • LFS => Labour force survey
  • LIBOR => London Interbank Offered Rate
  • LIFO => Last-in-first-out
  • LLU => Local loop unbundling
  • LPG => Liquefied petroleum gases
  • LYON => Liquid yield option note
  • MAGP => Multi-Annual Guidance Programmes
  • MBS => Mortgage-backed security
  • MCD => Months for Cyclical Dominance
  • MDG => Millennium Development Goals
  • MEDSTAT => Mediterranean Statistical Co-operation Programme
  • MEDTOUR => Euro-Mediterranean co-operation in tourism statistics
  • MEI => Main Economic Indicators
  • MEPS => Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
  • MEPS => Minimum energy performance standards
  • MERCOSUR => Common Market of the South
  • MFA => Multifibre Arrangement
  • MFN => Most favoured nation
  • MFP => multi-factor productivity
  • MFP => Multi-factor productivity
  • MICR => Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
  • MICR => Magnetic ink character recognition
  • MIG => Main industrial groupings
  • MIS => Management information system
  • MMPA => Marine Mammal Protection Act
  • MPS => Market Price Support
  • MSFCMA => Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
  • MSY => Maximum sustainable yield
  • MUICP => Monetary Union Index of Consumer Prices
  • NACE => Nomenclature generale des Activites economiques dans les Communautes europeennes
  • NAFO => Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation
  • NAFTA => North American Free Trade Agreement
  • NAICS => North American Industry Classification System
  • NAIRU => Non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment
  • NAMEA => National Accounting Matrix with Environmental Accounts
  • NAMMCO => North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
  • NAP => Net above-ground productivity
  • NAS => Net Additions to Stock
  • NAWRU => Non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment
  • NDP => Net domestic product
  • NEAFC => North-east Atlantic Fisheries Commission
  • NESTI => National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators
  • NGL => Natural gas liquids
  • NIM => New imputation methodology
  • NIS => Newly Independent States
  • NME => Non-member economies
  • NNI => Net national income
  • NOD => Nitrogenous oxygen demand
  • NOE => Non-observed economy
  • NPC => Nominal Protection Co-efficient
  • NPC => Producer Nominal Protection Co-efficient
  • NRA => National Regulatory Authority
  • NSI => National statistical institute
  • NSO => National statistical office
  • NSS => National statistical system
  • NUTS => Nomenclature of Territorial Units
  • NUTS => Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
  • OA => Official aid
  • ODA => Official development assistance
  • ODF => Official development finance
  • OECD => Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • OECD => Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • OEIC => Unit trust and open-ended investment company
  • OIS => Office information system
  • OMA => Orderly marketing arrangement
  • OSPAR => Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
  • OTMS => Over Thirty Months Scheme
  • PAN => Peroxyacetyl nitrate
  • PBO => Projected benefit obligation
  • PCS => Personal communications services
  • PCT => Patent Co-operation Treaty
  • PDF => Portable Document Format
  • PES => Post-enumeration survey
  • PHARE => Action plan for coordinated aid to Poland and Hungary
  • PICES => North Pacific Marine Sciences Organisation
  • PIM => Perpetual inventory method
  • PIOT => Physical input output tables
  • PISA => Programme for International Student Assessment
  • PIT => Partners in transition
  • PLN => Zloty
  • PLS => Paasche-Laspeyres-spread
  • POETRY => Processing of Electronic Translation Request
  • POI => Point of Interconnection
  • PPI => Producer price index
  • PPP => Purchasing power parity
  • PPP => Public-private partnership
  • PPS => Probability proportional to size or Purchasing power standard
  • PRAM => Post Randomisation Method
  • PRGF => Poverty reduction and growth facility
  • PRODCOM => Production Communautaire
  • PSE => Producer Support Estimate
  • PSI => Preshipment inspection
  • PSTN => Public Switched Telephone Network
  • PTB => Physical Trade Balance
  • PVA => Population vulnerability analysis
  • RAM => Random access memory
  • RDBMS => Relational database management system
  • RIO => Reference Interconnection Offer
  • RMSE => Root mean square error
  • ROM => Read-only-memory
  • RPI => Retail Price Index
  • RPM => Resale price maintenance
  • RPP => Receiving Party Pays
  • RTGS => Real-time gross settlement system
  • RUF => Revolving underwriting facility
  • SA => Seasonally adjusted
  • SACU => Southern African Customs Union
  • SAF => Structural adjustment facility
  • SAI => Supreme audit institution
  • SAIF => State Agricultural Intervention Fund
  • SAM => Social accounting matrix
  • SAPARD => Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development
  • SARS => Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • SCCTAS => Steering Committee to Co-ordinate Technical Assistance in Statistics to Countries of the Former Soviet Union
  • SCF => Survey of Consumer Finances
  • SDC => Statistical Disclosure Control
  • SDDS => Special Data Dissemination Standard
  • SDL => Statistical Disclosure Limitation
  • SDMX => Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange
  • SDP => Statistical Data Protection
  • SEEA => System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting
  • SEEA => Soil resources
  • SEEA => System of integrated environmental and economic accounting
  • SERIEE => European System for the Collection of Economic Information on the Environment
  • SERT => Business Statistics and Telematics Networks
  • SICTA => Standard International Classification of Tourism Activities
  • SIDS => Small island developing states
  • SIM => Subscriber identity module
  • SITC => Standard International Trade Classification
  • SLIM => Simpler Legislation in the Internal Market
  • SMP => Significant Market Power
  • SMS => Short Messaging Service
  • SNA => System of National Accounts
  • SOCX => The OECD Social Expenditure database
  • SP500 => Standard and Poor 500
  • SP500 => S&P500
  • SPC => Statistical Programme Committee
  • SPM => Suspended particulate matter
  • SPPY => Same Period Previous Year
  • SQL => Structured Query Language
  • SSG => Special Agricultural Safeguard
  • SSS => Securities settlement system
  • STADIUM => Statistical Data Interchange Universal Monitor
  • STP => Straight-through processing
  • TAC => Total allowable catch
  • TACIS => Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States
  • TBILL => Treasury Bill
  • TBILL => T-Bill
  • TBP => Technology balance of payments
  • TDO => Total Domestic Output
  • TELRIC => Total element long run incremental cost
  • TEU => Twenty foot equivalent unit
  • TIMSS => Third International Mathematics and Science Study
  • TMC => Total material consumption
  • TMO => Total Material Output
  • TMR => Total material requirement
  • TOE => Tonne of oil equivalent
  • TPA => Third party administrator
  • TPP => Technological product and process
  • TQM => Total Quality Management
  • TRI => Trade restrictiveness index
  • TRIMS => Trade-related investment measures
  • TRIPS => Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
  • TRQ => Tariff-rate quota
  • TRUF => Transferable revolving underwriting facility
  • TSA => Tourism Satellite Accounts
  • TSD => Total Survey Design
  • TSE => Total Support Estimate
  • TSLRIC => Total service long run incremental cost
  • TSPM => Total suspended particulate matter
  • TSS => Total suspended solids
  • U.S. => United States of America
  • UK => United Kingdom
  • ULL => Unbundled Local Loop
  • UNCCS => United Nations Common Coding System
  • UNCLOS => United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  • UNCTAD => United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  • UNECE => United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
  • UNEP => United Nations Environment Programme
  • UNESCO => United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • UNESCO => United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
  • UNFCCC => United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • UNHCR => United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • UNICEF => United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund
  • UNICRI => United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute
  • UNIDO => United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
  • UNIDO => United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  • United States => United States of America
  • UNODC => United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • UNSC => United Nations Statistical Commission
  • UNSD => United Nations Statistics Division
  • UNSD => United Nations Statistical Division
  • UPOV => International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
  • URAA => Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
  • URL => Uniform Resource Locator
  • US => United States of America
  • USA => United States of America
  • USD => US Dollar
  • VAT => Deductible value added tax
  • VAT => Invoiced value added tax
  • VAT => Non-deductible value added tax
  • VBO => Vested benefit obligation
  • VER => Voluntary export restraints
  • VRA => Voluntary restraint arrangement
  • WAN => Wide area network
  • WCAFC => West Central Atlantic Fishery Commission
  • WCO => World Customs Organisation
  • WCO => World Customs Organization
  • WHO => World Health Organization
  • WHO => World Health Organisation
  • WIPO => World Intellectual Property Organisation
  • WTO => World Trade Organisation
  • WTTC => World Travel and Tourism Council
  • WWF => World Wide Fund for Nature
  • WWW => World Wide Web
  • XML => eXtensible Markup Language
  • ZPG => Zero population growth