Statistical Terms Glossary

A holding company is a unit that holds the assets of subsidiary corporations but does not undertake any management activities. The principal activity of a holding is owning the group. The holding company does not provide any other service to the enterprises in which the equity is held, i.e. they do not administer or manage other units.

Holding corporations are institutional units whose main function is to control and direct a group of subsidiaries.

Holding corporations are corporations that control a group of subsidiary corporations and whose principal activity is owning and directing the group

Positive or negative holding gains may accrue during the accounting period to the owners of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities as a result of a change in their prices (holding gains are sometimes referred to as “capital gains")

Holding period is the time interval during which an asset is held.

Holdings that are operated by household members.

Holdings that are in sectors other than the household sector, such as corporations and cooperatives.

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The country of residence of the head office of the institutional entity.

Home Net South Asia is a network organization of women home-based workers set up after the Kathmandu Declaration, formulated in a conference in Nepal in 2000 and supported by The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The Networks of home-based workers include national networks in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. The goal of the network is to: bring visibility to home-based workers and their issues; advocate for national policies for home-based workers in each country; strengthen the grassroots membership-based organizations of home-based workers in each country; and strengthen South Asia Network of home based workers and their organization.

Home Net Southeast Asia is a network organization of women home-based workers from Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It has a membership base of around 45,000 home-based producers and workers. The network emerged as part of a sub regional initiative 1996 undertaken from 1988 to 1996 by ILO and funded by DANIDA. Formalized in June 1997 Home Net Southeast Asia is based in Manila, and aims to enable organized homeworkers to democratically run and manage institutionalized and self-sustaining organizations and networks at the sub-regional and national levels. The vision of the network is for homeworkers to: enjoy better working conditions and standards of living; attain higher income, steadier employment, and access to social protection; and ensure that their issues and concerns are better addressed in the policies and programs of governments, international agencies, and civil society organizations through the participation of their own representatives in various levels of governance related to homeworkers’ concerns.

The main or introductory page of a Web site. The home page provides visitors with an overview and links to the rest of the site. It often contains or links to a table of contents.

Home work refers to work carried out by a person, referred to as a homeworker,
(a) in his or her home or in other premises of his or her choice, other than the workplace of the employer; (b) for remuneration; and (c) which results in a product or service as specified by the employer, irrespective of who provides the equipment, materials or other inputs used, unless this person has the degree of autonomy and of economic independence necessary to be considered an independent worker under national laws, regulations or court decisions.

Work carried out by a person in her or his home or in other premises of her or his choice, other than the workplace of the employer, for remuneration, which results in a product or a service as specified by the employer, irrespective of who provides the equipment, materials or other inputs used.

Worker who carries out remunerative work within his home or in the surrounding grounds.

The definition of the homeless can vary from country to country because homelessness is essentially a cultural definition based on concepts, which can be perceived in different ways by different communities. The following two categories or degrees of homelessness are recommended: (a) Primary homelessness (or rooflessness). This category includes persons living in streets or without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters; (b) Secondary homelessness. This category may include the following groups: (i) Persons with no place of usual residence who move frequently between various types of accommodation (including dwellings, shelters or other living quarters) and (ii) Persons usually resident in long-term (also called “transitional”) shelters or similar arrangements for the homeless.

Are those households without a shelter that would form within the scope of living quarters.

Are persons of either sex, not classified as usually economically active, who are engaged in household duties in their own home, for example, housewives and other relatives responsible for the care of the home and children (domestic employees, working for pay, however, are classified as economically active.

Homeostasis refers to the capability of ecosystems to resist change and interference through self- regulation and self—maintenance (regeneration)

Are a sub-division of persons employed of the observation unit who carry out their professional activity from their own home. Only homeworkers who appear on the pay-roll of the observation unit should be included.