Statistical Terms Glossary

Includes expenditure by employers or public authorities on retirement programmes, health care or health insurance, unemployment compensation, disability insurance, other forms of social insurance, non-cash supplements (e.g., free or subsidised housing), maternity benefits, free or subsidised child care, and such other fringe benefits as each country may provide. This expenditure does not include contributions made by the employees themselves, or deducted from their gross salaries.

A commercial air service other than scheduled air service.

Avoidance of both an ambiguous generic masculine gender in the grammatical forms of nouns and discriminatory expressions which describe women and men in terms of their physical appearance or the qualities and gender roles attributed to their sex.

A single flight by an aircraft between two airports with no intermediate stops.

Non-tariff barriers refers to all barriers to trade that are not tariffs. Examples of these include countervailing and anti-dumping duties, "voluntary" export restraints, subsidies which sustain in operation loss making enterprises, technical barriers to trade, and obstacles to the establishment and provision of services.

Non-tariff measures such as quotas, import licensing systems, sanitary regulations, prohibitions, etc.

Similar to multifunctionality. The preamble of the Agriculture Agreement specifies food security and environmental protection as examples. Also cited by members are rural development and employment, and poverty alleviation.

Debt instruments that are not usually traded or tradable in organized and other financial markets

Although women’s presence in occupations that are not “traditionally” regarded as suitable for them, particularly in the scientific and technical fields, is growing, it is still far from equal to that of men. Worldwide, women’s employment is concentrated in a relatively small number of branches of economic activity. This restricted presence contributes to creating stereotypes of women and excludes them from professions that are better remunerated. On the other hand, boys and men also tend to be corralled into occupations traditionally thought of as masculine – such as construction, engineering, finance, the military, and so on. They should also have equal access to the traditionally feminized professions, such as teaching, nursing and care work. Horizontal occupational segregation by sex has its roots, at least in part, in gender inequalities in education and vocational training systems.

Short-term paper facility without any underwriting or backstop facility, such as the Eurocommercial paper facility.

The benefit provided by an environmental entity the existence of which is considered desirable to be maintained although it has no prospect of being of use to humans now or in the future.

Non-voting stocks are equity/shares that do not give voting rights to the holder. The category includes participating preference shares

Average hourly compensation cost is a wage measure intended to represent employers’ expenditure on the benefits granted to their employees as compensation for an hour of labour.

Refers to social insurance expenditure and other labour taxes and include: (a) employers expenditure for legally required insurance programmes and contractual and private benefit plans (retirement and disability pensions, health insurance, income guarantee insurance and sick leave, life and accident insurance, occupational injury and illness compensation, unemployment insurance and family allowances) and, for some economies; (b) labour taxes, that is, taxes on payrolls or employment or reductions to reflect subsidies - even if they do not finance programmes that benefit workers directly.

Equity which brings in no returns but is still in existence.

Normal accidental damage is the loss in value of assets from accidents that damage or destroy and that were known to be likely to occur when the assets were acquired. Transport equipment is frequently subject to accidents of this kind. Losses from normal accidental damage are included in consumption of fixed capital.

Weight of the new-born between 2.5-4.0 kg.

Are the hours of work fixed by or in pursuance of laws or regulations, collective agreements or arbitral awards, or the number of hours in excess of which any time worked is remunerated at overtime rates.

Total number of hours in the permanent or temporarily job which worked by employed usually .

Normal obsolescence is the loss in value of an asset through obsolescence that the purchaser was expecting to occur when the asset was acquired. It is a synonym for “foreseen” obsolescence and is included in consumption of fixed capital

See Normal retirement age

Age from which the individual is eligible for pension benefits.

Are those days on which work would usually be carried out by the groups of employees concerned or on which self-employed workers would usually expect to work. Weekly rest-days should therefore be excluded, as well as any public holidays, etc., on which work was not scheduled for the groups of employees involved or on which the self-employed workers involved would not usually have expected to work. If work is organized in shifts, one shift should be considered as one workday.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trilateral agreement on trade, including agricultural trade, between Canada, Mexico and the United States, phasing out tariffs and revising other trade rules between the three countries over a 15-year period. The agreement was signed in December 1992 and came into effect on 1 January 1994