Statistical Terms Glossary

A person injured who was hospitalized for more than 24 hours as a result of a transport accident.

A person injured as a result of a transport accident whose injury does not necessitate medical treatment or hospitalization.

It refers to a role, in which one person provides assistance to a person with disability, depending on her/his life situation and needs, with the ultimate aim being to empowering the person with disability.

A two-way, 1900 MHz digital voice, messaging and data service designed as the second generation of cellular.

A service that enables access to telecommunications services by allowing personal mobility. It enables each user to participate in a user-defined set of subscribed services as well as to initiate and receive calls on the basis of a unique, personal, network-independent number. It can be used across multiple networks at any fixed, movable, or mobile terminal regardless of geographical location.

A component of contextual factors within the International Classification of Functioning that relate to the individual – for example, age, gender, social status, and life experiences.

Access to these plans does not have to be linked to an employment relationship. The plans are established and administered directly by a pension fund or a financial institution acting as pension provider without any intervention of employers. Individuals independently purchase and select material aspects of the arrangements. The employer may nonetheless make contributions to personal pension plans. Some personal plans may have restricted membership.

Personal remittances consist of current and capital transfers in cash or in kind, made or received, by resident households to or from non-resident households and net compensation of employees from persons working abroad for short periods of time (less than one year).

See Services, personal

See registered stock.

Personal transfers consist of all current transfers in cash or in kind made, or received, by resident households to or from other non-resident households.

Personnel costs are defined as the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during the reference period. Personnel costs also include taxes and employees’ social security contributions retained by the unit as well as the employer’s compulsory and voluntary social contributions.

Persons found guilty by any legal body duly authorised to do so under national law, whether the conviction was later upheld or not. This should exclude convicted juveniles.

Persons of working age who, during a short reference period, performed any activity to produce goods for own final use for a cumulative total of at least one hour.

The population not economically active comprises all persons 15 years and over, who were neither employed nor unemployed accordingly to the definitions over. Because they don’t have any desire to work or because of the availability of another source of income.

Persons outside the labour force comprise all persons of working age World Health Organization [WHO], during the specified reference period, were not in the labour force (that is, were not employed or unemployed). The working age population is commonly defined as persons aged 15 years and older, but this varies from country to country. In addition to using a minimum age threshold, certain countries also apply a maximum age limit.

Those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others, as defined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The omnipresence of computer power and associated sensors and controls in daily life.

Is an initiative of the European Commission that seeks to generate clearly focused projects to help the fishing sector of the EU to adapt, and coastal areas to diversify, their economic activities.