Statistical Terms Glossary

A vehicle fitted with auto propulsive engine, it is normally used for carrying persons or goods, and drawing vehicles.

Motor vehicles (Central Product Classification (CPC) Class 4911) comprises the following Subclasses: road tractors for semi-trailers; public-transport type passenger motor vehicles; motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of - persons (except public-transport type vehicles, vehicles specially designed for travelling on snow, and golf cars and similar vehicles); motor vehicles n.e.c. for the transport of goods; crane lorries; motor vehicles, for the transport of persons, specially designed for travelling on snow; golf cars and similar vehicles; special purpose motor vehicles n.e.c. Automobiles

Passenger road motor vehicle designed to seat more than nine persons (including the driver).

Two wheeled motor vehicles with or without sidecar. This category includes scooter, three-wheeled vehicles not exceeding 400 kg. Motorcycles are classified according to the engine capacity as: less than 50 cm3, 50-100 cm3, 100-250 cm3, and greater than 250 cm3.

Road, specially designed and built for motor traffic, which does not serve properties bordering on it, and which:
(a) is provided, except at special points or temporarily, with separate carriageways for the two directions of traffic, separated from each other, either by a dividing strip not intended for traffic, or exceptionally by other means;
(b) does not cross at level with any road, railway or tramway track, or footpath;
(c) is specially sign-posted as a motorway and is reserved for specific categories of road motor vehicles.
Entry and exit lanes of motorways are included irrespectively of the location of the sign-posts. Urban motorways are also included.

Road, specially designed and built for motor traffic, which does not serve properties bordering on it, and which:
- Is provided, except at special points or temporarily, with separate carriageways for traffic in two directions, separated from each other, either by a dividing strip not intended for traffic, or exceptionally by other means;
- Has no crossings at the same level with any road, railway or tramway track, or footpath;
- Is especially sign-posted as a motorway and is reserved for specific categories of road motor vehicles.

Geographical movement of the population.

Consists of a group of two or more persons who combine to occupy the whole or part of a housing unit and to provide themselves with food and possibly other essentials for living. The group may be composed of related persons only or of unrelated persons or of a combination of both. The group may also pool their income.

Any injury accident involving two or more road vehicles. The following types of injury accidents involving two or more road vehicles are: (a) Rear-end collision: collision with another vehicle using the same lane of a carriageway and moving in the same direction, slowing or temporarily halted Excluded are collisions with parked vehicles. (b) Head-on collision: collision with another vehicle using the same lane of a carriageway and moving in the opposite direction, slowing or temporarily halted Excluded are collisions with parked vehicles. (c) Collision due to crossing or turning: collision with another vehicle moving in a lateral direction due to crossing, leaving or entering a road, Excluded are collisions with vehicles halted and waiting to turn which should be classify ed under (a) or (b). (d) Other collisions, including collisions with parked vehicles: collision occurring when driving side by side, overtaking or when changing lanes; or collision with a vehicle which has parked or stopped at the edge of a carriageway, on shoulders, marked parking spaces, footpaths or parking sites, etc.

See combined commercial and investment bank.

A type of communication where a node sends the same frame simultaneously to one or more other nodes in the home network.

A clause in a loan agreement stating that more than one currency may be used in paying or redeeming the loan.

Procedure which allows a borrower to receive a loan in a currency other than the one specified, provided this currency is available on the market.

Refers to the idea that poverty is more than insufficient income or the deprivation of material resources. It also encompasses the lack of opportunity to access an education, basic health care, clean drinking water or to influence political processes and other factors that matter to people.

Population with a deprivation score of at least 33 percent. It is expressed as a share of the population in the survey year, the number of people in the survey year and the projected number of people in 2017.

The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) identifies multiple deprivations at the household level in education, health and standard of living. It uses micro data from household surveys, and—unlike the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index—all the indicators needed to construct the measure must come from the same survey.

Multiple discrimination that influences the risk of being subjected to multiple forms of violence.

is a process of decision-making between parties representing employer and employee interests which implies the “negotiation and continuous application of an agreed set of rules to govern the substantive and procedural terms of the employment relationship ….”.

Funds that pool the assets of pension plans established by various plan sponsors. There are three types of multi-employer pension funds: a) for related employers, i.e. companies that are financially connected or owned by a single holding group (group pension funds);
b) for unrelated employers who are involved in the same trade or business (industry pension funds);
c) for unrelated employers that may be in different trades or businesses (collective pension funds).