Statistical Terms Glossary

Partnerships are separate legal entities which behave like corporations but whose members enjoy limited liability; in effect, the partners are at the same time both shareholders and managers.

Are persons whose usual hours of work are less than the normal working hours. This definition encompasses all forms of part-time work (half-day work, work for one, two or three days a week, etc.). This number may be established at the national, regional, industrial or unit level.

Due to variations in working hours between countries, there is no internationally agreed definition of part time employment. The findings of an OECD study conclude that a definition of part-time work based on a 30 usual hours threshold would appear to be most appropriate for the purposes of international comparisons. However, actual data vary from country to country.

Students enrolled in primary and secondary-level educational programmes are considered to participate part-time if they attend school for less than 75 per cent of the school day or week (as locally defined) and would normally be expected to be in the programme for the entire academic year. At the tertiary level, an individual is considered part-time if he or she is taking a course load or educational programme that requires less than 75 per cent of a full-time commitment of time and resources.

A teacher employed for less than 90 per cent of the normal or statutory number of hours of work for a full-time teacher over a complete school year is classified as a part-time teacher.

A part-time worker is an employed person whose normal hours of work are less than those of comparable full-time workers, which may be calculated weekly or on average over a given period of employment. The term ‘comparable full-time worker’ refers to a full-time worker who: (a) has the same type of employment relationship; (b) is engaged in the same or a similar type of work or occupation; and
(c) is employed in the same establishment or, when there is no comparable full-time worker in that establishment, in the same enterprise, or, when there is no comparable full-time worker in that enterprise, in the same branch of activity, as the part-time worker concerned; Full-time workers affected by partial unemployment, that is by a collective and temporary reduction in their normal hours of work for economic, technical or structural reasons, are not considered to be part-time workers.

Certificate representing an interest in a pool of funds or in other instruments.

Securities representing pooled debt obligations repackaged as shares, that passes income from debtors through the intermediary to investors. The most common type is a mortgage-backed certificate.

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Scheduled or non-scheduled air service performed by aircraft carrying one or more revenue passengers and any flights listed in published timetables as open to passengers.
Note: Includes flights carrying revenue freight and mail.

Passenger-kilometres performed expressed as a percentage of passenger-kilometres offered.

Passenger-kilometres performed expressed as a percentage of passenger kilometres offered.

A passenger car is a road motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine persons (including the driver).
The term "passenger car" therefore covers microcars (need no permit to be driven), taxis and hired passenger cars, provided that they have fewer than ten seats. This category may also include pick-ups.

Number of seats/berths and standing places, including the driver's, available in the vehicle when it is performing the service for which it is primarily intended.

The number of seats and/or berths available in a passenger vehicle when performing the service for which it is intended.

The number of authorized standing places available in a passenger vehicle when performing the service for which it is intended.

An area of a passenger terminal where passengers gather prior to boarding their aircraft. It can be:
- A gate with finger bridges (jetbridges or jetways) connecting to the aircraft to allow boarding without descending to ground level and using steps to board;
- A gate other than those with finger bridges.

A person involved in an injury accident, other than a driver, who was in a road vehicle, or in the process of getting in or out of a road vehicle.

A passenger kilometre is performed when a passenger is carried for one kilometre.

Unit of measurement representing the transport of one passenger by inland waterways over one kilometre.

Passenger-kilometres expressed as a percentage of available seat-kilometres.

A port with facilities to embark and disembark passengers. Such ports may also provide services such as water and electricity supply, clearance of waste, etc.

Railway vehicle for the conveyance of passengers, even if it comprises one or more compartments or spaces specially reserved for luggage, parcels, mail, etc.

A road motor vehicle, exclusively designed or primarily, to carry one or more persons.