Statistical Terms Glossary

It is a disease or disability that occurs as a result of or related to pregnancy, childbirth, or in the postpartum period (postpartum).

The death of a woman from any cause related to pregnancy that occurs during the pregnancy or within 42 days of the pregnancy’s termination. The termination of a pregnancy can be defined as giving birth (to a stillborn or live infant) or having a miscarriage or an abortion. Late maternal deaths include deaths from obstetric causes that occur after 42 days but within one year of pregnancy termination.

It is number deaths between women due to pregnancy and birth complications, the maternal mortality rate refers to the number of dead women due to these reasons per 100,000 live births.

The annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births.

The number of women who die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births in a given year.

The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is the annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, per 100,000 live births, for a specified year.

Most countries provide maternity benefits in the form of social insurance.

They are the health units that provide general and specialized medical services for mother and child, including care of the mother before and after childbirth also provides free health services to children up to the age of 5 years in all matters relating to the health of the child from immunizations, child examination, laboratory tests, supplementation provide .

Is leave granted only to mothers for a limited period of time around the time of childbirth (although it is possible for the father to take the post-natal part of the leave in extreme circumstances, such as the mother’s death or illness).

Maternity protection for employed women includes: (a) protection of the health of mother and child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding; (b) maternity leave: the mother’s right to a period of rest in relation to childbirth; (c) cash and medical benefits: the right to cash benefits during absence for maternity; (d) employment protection and non-discrimination: guaranteeing the woman employment security and the right to return to the same position or an equivalent position paid at the same rate at the end of her maternity leave; (e) the mother’s right to one or more daily breaks or a daily reduction of hours of work to breastfeed her child.

Mathematical literacy is defined in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as the capacity to identify, understand and engage in mathematics, and to make well-founded judgements about the role that mathematics plays in an individual’s current and future private life, occupational life, social life with peers and relatives, and life as a constructive, concerned and reflective citizen.

The property that makes it possible to have correct country-to-country quantity relationships for each detailed category and, at the same time, to obtain the correct country-to-country quantity relationships for any desired aggregation of categories simply by summing the quantities for the included categories.

Investments which are just at the beginning of the stage at which they will start to become profitable.

The date at which the final repayment of a loan is due; by extension, a measure of the scheduled life of the loan.

See time arbitrage.

Refers to a development model elicited from actual data. The data were collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research, and they became the foundation from which CMU created the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Maturity Levels: a 5-Level process maturity continuum - where the uppermost (5th) level is a notional ideal state where processes would be systematically managed by a combination of process optimization and continuous process improvement.

Having borrowings and loans with different maturities. This could mean, for example in the case of the Bank, that borrowings the Bank had made on the capital market to finance certain loans it had made were due before it had received the money from the loans.

A time profile of the maturities of claims or liabilities. Also known as “maturity profile” or “maturity distribution.”

Reborrowing, in order to extend the maturity of a loan.

A medical classification of the severity of injuries. MAIS 1-2 are slight injuries and MAIS 3-6 are serious injuries.

Is a situation in which the fishery is generating the maximum amount of economic benefits, as measured as the sum of net benefits to fishers and consumers, and resource rent.

The level of catch and associated level of fishing effort that maximises profits in the industry over time and on a sustainable basis.; The theoretical greatest difference between total revenues and total costs of exploiting a fish stock under existing environmental conditions and where inputs are valued at their social opportunity costs. MEY is equal to the maximum resource rent and is obtained where the marginal product of effort is equal to the marginal cost of effort. MEY is realized at a level of fishing effort which is below that one which produces maximum sustainable yield.