Statistical Terms Glossary

Means the working media owned by the General Company for passenger and delegations, which was already working on the internal and external

Is an ongoing cost for running a product, business, or system. Its counterpart, a capital expenditure (CAPEX), is the cost of developing or providing non-consumable parts for the product or system. For example, the purchase of a photocopier is the CAPEX, and the annual paper, toner, power and maintenance cost is the OPEX. For larger systems like businesses, OPEX may also include the cost of workers and facility expenses such as rent and utilities.

Operating fleet includes all aircraft in service for commercial purposes, including all aircraft that are temporarily unserviceable due to major accidents, conversions, government action such as grounding by government regulatory agencies.

An operating lease is one where the legal owner is also the economic owner and accepts the operating risks and receives the economic benefits from the asset by using it in a productive activity.

Ratio of operating costs (including depreciation) to total revenue.

Ratios used to determine a corporation's operations; usually relate to sales, profits, and/or turnover.

The operating surplus measures the surplus or deficit accruing from production before taking account of any interest, rent or similar charges payable on financial or tangible non-produced assets borrowed or rented by the enterprise, or any interest, rent or similar receipts receivable on financial or tangible non-produced assets owned by the enterprise.

Note: for unincorporated enterprises owned by households, this component is called “mixed income".

The operating surplus adjusted for the depletion of natural resources is equal to the net operating surplus less the extraction of natural resources plus the return to natural resources.

Operating surplus adjusted for the depletion of non-produced biological resources is equal to the net operating surplus less gross extraction of non-produced biological resources plus returns to non-produced biological resources plus natural growth of non-produced biological resources.

The OS is the system which performs OSFs. The OS may optionally provide MFs, QSFs and WSFs.

Operational leases are arrangements in which machinery or equipment is rented out for specified periods of time that are shorter than the total expected service lives of the machinery or equipment.

Also known as tactical management, involves direct management that affects the fishing process directly, relating to implementation of the management plan and achievement of objectives, including decisions on and implementation of management measures, and monitoring control and surveillance.

A unit defined by a legal unit for the purposes of organising itself, for example a division, branch, workshop, warehouse, or outlet. In small enterprises, the operational and legal structures often coincide and may even be embodied in a single unit. For large enterprises, the operational structure may be different from the legal structure, coinciding with it only at the highest level of the business. In such cases, the organizational and production units of the enterprise’s operational structure may differ from the units of their legal structure.The statistical units of large and complex institutional units may be delineated through a process referred to as profiling. Profiling identifies the enterprise, its legal structure, its operating structure, and the production and organizational units that are used to derive the statistical units.

Taking advantage of the immediate circumstances or the availability of an opportunity to commit illegal sexual behavior, such as a teenager molesting a child while babysitting.

The concept of opportunity cost is commonly used in economics; it is measured by reference to the opportunities foregone at the time an asset or resource is used, as distinct from the costs incurred at some time in the past to acquire the asset, or the payments which could be realised by an alternative use of a resource (e.g. the use of labour in a voluntary capacity being valued at the wages which could have been earned in a paid job.

The systematic subjugation of a group of people by another group with access to social power, the result of which benefits one group over the other.

Method of converting a scanned image into a word-processing file.

Is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.