| Subject | English | German |
| econ. | preliminary annual data,compiled prior to the completion of the input-output table | vorläufige jährliche Daten vor Erstellung einer Input-Output-Tabelle |
| IT | preliminary data | Ausgangsdaten |
| phys. | preliminary data | vorläufige Werte |
| comp. | preliminary data processing | Datenaufbereitung |
| comp. | preliminary data processing | vorbereitende Datenverarbeitung |
| comp., MS | preliminary data validation | Vorabdatenüberprüfung (The process of validating data before it is processed. This validation helps detect and exclude some errors from the intended process, which might be the import or migration of users using a CSV file, for example) |
| construct. | preliminary design data | Ausgangsmaterialien für die Projektierung |
| gen. | preliminary processing of data | Datenvorverarbeitung |