Acronyms

CPPI

Church Planting Progress Indicators

The name for the International Mission Board's database containing descriptive and strategic data on all people groups of the world.

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

Codes for geopolitical entities from the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard No. 10 "Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions" (also known as FIPS 10). The current FIPSPUB10-4 provides a list of the basic geopolitical entities in the world, together with the principal administrative divisions that comprise each entity. Each basic geopolitical entity is represented by a two-character, alphabetic country code. Each principal administrative division is identified by a four-character code consisting of the two-character country code followed by a two-character administrative division code.

GRD

Global Research Department

The Global Research Department of the International Mission Board, SBC gathers and analyzes information collected through a global network of research coordinators.

http://www.imb.org/globalresearch

PopEntID

Population Entity Identification Number

A unique number identifying a specific people group as listed in the CPPI database of the International Mission Board's Global Research Department (GRD).

ROL

Registry of Languages

This registry (of the Harvest Information System) defines codes for identifying the languages of the world and is maintained by Wycliffe International.

http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info

http://www.wycliffe.net

ROP

Registry of Peoples

This registry defines codes for identifying the ethnolinguistic people groups of the world and is maintained by the Global Research Department (GRD).

http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info

http://www.imb.org/globalresearch

GSEC

Global Status of Evangelical Christianity