Statistical Terms Glossary

Management/Quality control/Administration comprises four categories: School Level Management, Higher Level Management, School Level Administrative Personnel and Higher Level Administrative Personnel at all ISCED levels.

Here, refers to the person charged with, or responsible for, the stewardship of the fishery, including the formation of management regulations, monitoring and enforcement. The manager would generally be the leader of the managing institution.

See management group.

The group of people in charge of developing management plans for the fishery and responsible for monitoring, and adapting to, changes in the status of resources. It could be the fishery service of the country or province, in the case of centralized management, or a group of community leaders in the case of community-based management.

The level of contribution the member (or an entity on behalf of the member) is required to pay according to scheme rules.

Participation in these plans is mandatory for employers. Employers are obliged by law to participate in a pension plan. Employers must set up (and make contributions to) occupational pension plans which employees will normally be required to join. Where employers are obliged to offer an occupational pension plan, but the employees' membership is on a voluntary basis, these plans are also considered mandatory.

Participation in these plans is mandatory for employers. Employers are obliged by law to participate in a pension plan. Employers must set up (and make contributions to) occupational pension plans which employees will normally be required to join. Where employers are obliged to offer an occupational pension plan, but the employees' membership is on a voluntary basis, these plans are also considered mandatory.

Mandatory private insurance programmes are programmes based on insurance principles but privately managed. These programmes are usually considered as part of the social security system, if mandatory.

Swampy areas inhabited by are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics.

A document issued by a shipper, covering all cargo stated to be in a ship or aircraft for delivery at a particular seaport or airport.

An edit performed by people before data are entered into the computer (see “hand edit”).

switches where the operator bind participants manually the recognition that purports to make a call light indicates the participant when lifting the handset and then connect the caller with the number manually.

Production workers (also referred to as manual workers or blue-collar workers) generally include those employees who are engaged in fabrication, assembly and related activities, material handling, warehousing and shipping, maintenance and repair, janitorial and guard services, auxiliary production (such as power plants), and other services closely related to the above activities. Working supervisors are generally included, while apprentices and other trainees are generally excluded.

This section includes the physical or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products, Manufacturing classified in Section C and Divisions (10-33) in the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4.

Manufacturing or industrial milk refers to milk used for producing products such as casein, butter, cheese and milk powder. Generally the term excludes milk transformed into “fresh” products, such as yoghurt and cream.

Fertilizer prepared from organic material.

Margins are payments of cash or collateral that cover actual or potential obligations under financial derivatives, especially futures or exchange-traded options.

A trade margin is the difference between the actual or imputed price realised on a good purchased for resale (either wholesale or retail) and the price that would have to be paid by the distributor to replace the good at the time it is sold or otherwise disposed of.

A transport margin consists of those transport charges paid separately by the purchaser in taking delivery of the goods at the required time and place.

Brokerage account allowing customers to buy securities with money borrowed from the broker.

System whereby the purchaser furnishes only a specified fraction of the total purchase price of securities bought, with the broker furnishing the balance and charging interest on that amount.

A demand for additional funds because of an adverse price movement eroding the value of an open futures position.

It refers to the margin of error when estimating the indicator.