Statistical Terms Glossary

A special type of ratio in which the denominator is a quantity that represents the whole of a given group under investigation and the numerator is a subset of it.

Informal employment comprises persons in their main job were: (a) own-account workers, employers or members of producers cooperatives employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (b) own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household; (c) contributing family workers, irrespective of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises; or (d) employees holding informal jobs, whether employed by formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers by households.

This indicator provides the proportion of the total population and the proportion of the employed population living in households with per-capita consumption or income that is below the national poverty line. It is calculated by dividing the number of persons living in households below the poverty line (disaggregated by sex, age and employment status) by the total number of persons (disaggregated by the same sex, age and employment status groups).

The proportion of youths in education is defined as the proportion of youths in each country's labour force survey who indicated that they were following a school or university course either during the reference week of the survey or within the four weeks preceding the survey.

It refers to the distribution of the sample across strata by percentage of strata size in population.

An ownership interest, as in the interest held by an equity holder in a company or a patent holder who licenses use of the patent by others.

A document containing all the pertinent information about a public offering of securities and about the borrower. It is made available to the appropriate legal authorities, stock exchanges, and the prospective investors by the lead manager. The French term prospectus is used in normal parlance; however, the term document is used in the legal instrument regulating the system (Ordinance No. 67-833 of September 28, 1967, Article 6). Also called offering memorandum.

Externally applied device used to replace wholly, or in part, an absent or deficient limb segment.

A protected area refers to legally established land or water area under either public or private ownership that is regulated and managed to achieve specific conservation objectives

Are based on the strictness of protection and serve as the classification for protected areas. The main categories are strict nature reserve; wilderness area; national park; natural monument or feature; habitat/species management area; protected landscape/seascape; and protected area with sustainable use of natural resources.

Fisheries/Wildlife-Biodiversity: Species of special interest either because they are rare or endangered, or of particular scientific, ecological value: protection, restocking, management measures and plans.

Right upheld by law or enshrined in the constitution.

A plan (personal pension plan or occupational defined contribution pension plan) other than an unprotected pension plan. The guarantees or promises may be offered by the pension plan/fund itself or the plan provider (e.g. deferred annuity, guaranteed rate of return).

Protected stock has its dividend guaranteed in the event that the corporation does not earn a profit in a certain year. A special fund established from previous corporate earnings pays the dividend when it is due.

Protection of ambient air refers to environmental protection activity involving the construction, maintenance and operation of facilities for the reduction of emissions into ambient air, or of concentrations in the air, of air pollutants through the use of particulate emission collectors, gaseous emission control devices or other technical means

Protection of ambient water refers to environmental protection activity including the construction, maintenance and operation of sewerage systems, and waste—water and sewage sludge treatment plants, as well as the restoration of polluted surface waters and similar efforts

Protection of climate and the ozone layer are measures to control the emissions of greenhouse gases and gases that adversely affect the stratospheric ozone layer (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chloro—fluorocarbons and halons)

Protection of soil and groundwater refers to environmental protection activity involving the construction, maintenance and operation of installations for the decontamination of polluted soils, the cleansing of groundwater and the protection against the infiltration of pollutants

Protection of species and habitats refers to environmental protection activity comprising the conservation of threatened species of fauna and flora and the protection of ecosystems/habitats that are essential to the well—being of significant species of fauna and flora

Fast legal remedy to protect persons at risk of any form of violence by prohibiting, restraining or prescribing certain behaviour by the perpetrator.

Roof of glass, plastic or other material over a permanent structure, used for protecting crops against the weather, pests or diseases.

Legislative and other measures aimed to protect victims as well as their families and witnesses from any further form of violence and re-victimisation or secondary victimisation, at all stages of investigations and judicial proceedings.

The selective, deliberate (re)designing and synthesis of proteins.

Analysis of the expression, functions and interactions of all proteins of an organism.

A set of rules and formats that determines the communication behaviour of layer entities in the performance of the layer functions.