Statistical Terms Glossary

See investment bank.

Number of merchant ships registered at a given date in a country and authorised to navigate at sea.

Ship designed for the carriage of goods, transport of passengers or specially fitted for a specific commercial duty.

A merchant ship moored in port because of lack of work.

A multilateral agreement on trade, including agricultural trade, between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Bolivia. The agreement was signed in 1991 and came into effect on 1 January 1995.

Mercury is a heavy metal that can accumulate in the environment and is highly toxic if breathed or swallowed

Enterprises may integrate to the extent that the number of existing enterprises is reduced. If two enterprises integrate entirely, the enterprises involved may lose their identity because they are dissolved beyond recognition in the new organisation. If both enterprises lose their identity, the event is called a merger. There is no continuity or survival, but the closures of the previous enterprises are not considered to be real deaths. Similarly the new enterprise is not considered to be a real birth. This event can be seen as the opposite of a break-up.

The circulation of money through various sources, ending up where it started. For instance the German Central Bank recycles excess capital by sellingU.S. dollars to banks under a repurchase agreement and the banks place the U.S. dollars in the Euromarket. As the financial institutions could run up a U.S. dollar debt on the Euromarket, the Central Bank must buy back the U.S. dollars and sell domestic currency to avoid an excessive increase in the mark.

Deliberate capital import and re-export operations.

The size of holes in fishing net. Minimum mesh sizes are often prescribed by regulations in order to avoid the capture of the young of valuable species before they have reached their optimal size for capture.

From 200m down to around 1,000m (3,280 ft). Although some light penetrates this deep, it is insufficient for photosynthesis. The name stems from Greek μέσον, middle. Animals such as swordfish, squids, wolffish, a few species of cuttlefish, and other semi-deep sea creatures live here.

Data and other documentation that describes objects in a formalized way.

Metallic mineral reserves consist of ferrous and non-ferrous metal ore deposits.

Class of substances which are crystalline when solid and many of which are opaque, ductile, malleable, dense and good conductors of heat and electricity. Manufacture of basic metals in the International Standard Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 3, comprises division 3 and includes the ferrous metals iron and steel, the precious metals gold, silver and members of the platinum group, and other non-ferrous base metals such as copper, lead, chrome, manganese, zinc, aluminium, nickel and tin and alloys of such metals. CPC Vers. 1: Basic metals (division 41).

MetaStore is the OECD's corporate facility for the storage, accessing and management of reference metadata for statistics.

Methane (CH4) is a colourless, non—poisonous and flammable gaseous hydrocarbon created by anaerobic decomposition of organic compounds. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas

Methodological soundness refers to constructs and principles of accounting that are basic building blocks of macroeconomic data.

It is a structured approach to solve a problem. Statistically: It is a set of research methods and techniques applied to a particular field of study.

General methodological approaches that facilitate the integration of a gender dimension into policies and programmes.

Registered at employment office, Registered at labour Union , asked friends/ relatives, Application to employers Declared\ Read newspaper Others, all what mentioned above

Term that includes altogether the fishing gear, the fishing zone and the target species.; Fishing method targeting a specific species with a specific gear in a specific zone.

An electric rail line mainly for urban transport with the capacity for heavy volumes of traffic involving very frequent train movements. Metro lines are also characterized by closely spaced stations, normally with around 1 000 m.