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