Economic statistics terminology · MLC-0116
Economic statistics terms: U (66)
- Ultimate consigneeThe person, party, or designee that is located abroad and actually receives the export shipment. This party...
- UN model life tablesA series of life tables depicting standard (or model) age patterns of mortality and changes in those patterns...
- UNAIDSThe United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS.
- Under constructionEstimates of housing units started, but not yet completed, are shown in the "under construction" data series...
- Under-5 mortalityNumber of deaths of children under 5 years of age from a cohort of 1,000 live births. Denoted 5q0, it is the...
- UndercoverageThe extent to which a sample does not include members of the target population thus preventing those members...
- Under-roof selling space (1,000 square feet)Under-roof selling space for establishments in business at the end of the census year.
- Under-roof selling space as percent of total under-roof floor space (%)Under-roof selling space as percent of total under-roof floor space for establishments in business at the end...
- Undocumented shipmentsFederal regulations require importers, exporters, or their agents, to submit import and export information...
- UnemployedPeople who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work at that time, and had made...
- Unemployment compensation expenditureComprises payments made to beneficiaries under basic provisions of unemployment compensation programs and...
- Unemployment rateNumber unemployed as a percentage of the labor force.
- Unemployment_insuranceInsurance that provides unemployment benefits to eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of...
- Unfilled orders (backlog)Calculated by adding net new orders and subtracting net sales from the backlog at the end of the preceding...
- UNHCRUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
- Union membership rateProportion of total wage and salary workers who are union members.
- Unit capital costsPayments for capital input used to produce each unit of a good or service.
- Unit labor costsPayments for labor services used to produce each unit of a good or service.
- Unit nonlabor paymentsNonlabor payments associated with each unit of a good or service produced, calculated as nonlabor payments...
- Unit non-responseThe failure to obtain the minimum required data from a unit in the sample.
- Unit nonresponseLack of response to a survey.
- Unit of measurement for the NAPCS collection codeUnit of measurement.
- Unit of quantityThe unit of measure that merchandise is counted either in numbers or weight such as yards, meters, pieces or...
- Unit profitsCorporate profits before taxes with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments. Total unit...
- Unit value indexAn index of quantity-weighted average prices using shipping, customs, or scanner data used to calculate price...
- United StatesThe 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- United States munition listArticles and services designated for defense purposes under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations...
- United States or AmericanRefers to people who identified their ancestry as "American," "United States," as a region such as...
- United States Virgin IslandsThe Census Bureau treats the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) as the statistical equivalent of a state for...
- Units in structureA structure is a separate building that either has open spaces on all sides or is separated from other...
- UniverseTotal number of units (e.g., individuals, households, or businesses) in the population of interest.
- Universe (Buildings Permits Survey), see Universe
- UnladingThe physical removal of cargo from an aircraft, truck, rail, or vessel.
- Unmarried domestic partner benefitsBenefits extended to an employee's domestic partner.
- Unmarried partnerAn unmarried partner is a person age 15 years and over, who is not related to the householder, who shares...
- Unmarried-partner householdHousehold in which the householder reports having an unmarried partner-a person with whom they share living...
- Unorganized territoryOccur in nine minor civil division (MCD) states (Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New York, North...
- Unpaid family workerPerson who works without pay for 15 hours a week or more on a farm or in a business operated by a family of...
- Unrelated individualPerson, sharing a housing unit, who is not related to the householder by birth, marriage or adoption...
- Upper bound (American Community Survey)Represents the high end of the 90 percent confidence interval of an estimate from a sample survey...
- UrbanAreas of densely developed territory, specifically all territory, population and housing units in urbanized...
- Urban areaCollective term referring to urbanized areas and urban clusters.
- Urban clusterA densely developed territory that contains a minimum residential population 2,500 people but fewer than...
- Urban growth areaLegally defined entity defined around incorporated places and used to regulate urban growth. They are...
- Urban populationAll people living in a territory encompassing at least 2,500 people, 1,500 of whom reside outside...
- UrbanizacionAn area, sector, or residential development, such as a neighborhood, within a geographic area in Puerto Rico.
- Urbanized areaAn area consisting of a densely developed territory that contains a minimum residential population of at...
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)An agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with regulating and facilitating...
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)An agency within the Department of Homeland Security that is responsible for enforcing customs, immigration...
- U.S. principal party in interestThe person or legal entity in the United States that receives the primary benefit, monetary or otherwise...
- U.S. residentPeople or organizations whose economic interests are centered in the United States and who reside or expect...
- USA Trade OnlineCreated in collaboration between STAT-USA and the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online provides current and...
- UsabilityExtent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness...
- Usability testExperiment to observe typical users perform common tasks to uncover potential problems with using a system...
- User researchProcess of learning about the goals and needs of target user groups in order to provide helpful information...
- User/stakeholder surveySurvey sent to users, stakeholders, or customers to collect feedback on current products, programs, or other...
- Usual hoursUsual number of hours an individual works.
- Usual hours worked per week worked in designated calendar yearThe data pertain to the number of hours a person usually worked during the weeks worked in the designated...
- Usual hours worked per week worked in the past 12 monthsThe data pertain to the number of hours a person usually worked during the weeks worked in the past 12...
- Usual residenceUsual residence is a concept used in the decennial census to determine where a person should be counted in...
- Usual residence elsewhereA housing unit temporarily occupied at the time of enumeration entirely by people with a usual residence...
- Usual weekly earningsWage and salary earnings before taxes and other deductions.
- UtilitiesThe Utilities sector comprises establishments engaged in providing the following services: electric power...
- UtilityA government owned and operated water supply, electric light and power, gas supply, or transit system...
- Utility debtDebt originally issued specifically to finance government owned and operated water, electric, gas, or transit...
- Utility expenditureExpenditure for construction of utility facilities or equipment, for production and distribution of utility...
- Utility revenueRevenue from sale of utility commodities and services to the public and to other governments. Does not...
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