Statistical Terms Glossary

A casualty which does not qualify as a very serious casualty and which involves: A fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull -defect, etc., resulting in : Structural damage rendering the IWT vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage etc. or; Pollution (regardless of quantity) and/or; A breakdown necessitating towage or assistance from the bank.

An incident involving circumstances indicating that an accident nearly occurred.
Note: The difference between an accident and a serious incident lies only in the result.

A non-fatal injury which is sustained by a person in a transport accident and which:
- Requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within 7 days from the date the injury occurred; or
- Results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes, or nose); or
- Involves lacerations which cause severe hemorrhage, nerve, muscle or tendon damage; or
- Involves injury to any internal organ; or
- Involves second- or third-degree burns, or burns affecting more than 5 per cent of the body surface; or
- Involves verified exposure to infectious substances or injurious radiation.

Any accident involving at least one rail vehicle in motion, resulting in at least one killed or seriously injured person. Accidents in workshops, warehouses and depots are excluded.

A casualty which does not qualify as a very serious casualty and which involves a fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull defect, etc., resulting in:• Structural damage rendering the marine vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage etc.; or• Pollution (regardless of quantity); and/or• A breakdown necessitating towage or shore assistance.

A vessel casualty that does not qualify as a very serious casualty and involves a fire, explosion, grounding, contact, heavy weather damage, ice damage, hull cracking or suspected hull defect, etc., resulting in:
- Structural damage rendering the vessel not navigable, such as penetration of the hull underwater, immobilization of main engines, extensive accommodation damage, etc.; and/or
- Pollution (regardless of quantity); and/or
- Breakdown necessitating towage or assistance from the shore.

A server is a computer that provides data to other computers. It may serve data to systems on a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN) over the Internet.

A networking system that uses server / client technologies to share resources over a network.

To pay interest due on a loan.

Telecommunications convergence is a concept dating back to AT&T in 1928 but has evolved in the 21st century to dominate the market positioning of telecoms operators. It is reflected in the product portfolio operators offer (vertical integration), and in the channels through which their products are sold and serviced (horizontal integration). Telecommunication convergence is a disruptive technology.

It refers to a dog that is trained perform specific tasks or functions depending on the handler's impairment and needs.

The capacity of the environment to provide the habitat for all living beings including mankind.

The service life of an asset is the total period during which it remains in use, or ready to be used, in a productive process. During its service life an asset may have more than one owner.

The length of time an individual has earned rights to a pension benefits.

Serviceability refers to the practical aspects of how well the available data meet users’ needs.

Service level measures the performance of a system. Certain goals are defined and the service level gives the percentage to which they should be achieved.

Retail trade is defined in the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) as the re-sale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to the general public, for personal or household consumption or utilisation.

Services are outputs produced to order and which cannot be traded separately from their production. Services are not separate entities over which ownership rights can be established. They cannot be traded separately from their production. Services are heterogeneous outputs produced to order and typically consist of changes in the conditions of the consuming units realized by the activities of producers at the demand of the consumers. By the time their production is completed they must have been provided to the consumers.

Encompasses services such as day- care and rehabilitation services, home-help services and other benefits in kind. It also includes expenditure on the provision of residential care in an institution (e.g., the cost of operating homes for the elderly).

See Environmental services.

Distributive services move commodities, information and people. Some of these services are final consumption in their own right (e.g. vacation travel) but most are ancillary to final consumption (e.g retailing) or production (e.g. materials transport).
Distributive services comprise the following International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Rev. 3 sub-groups: - retail trade; - wholesale trade; - transport services; - communications

Personal services provide final consumption for households and are characterised by direct contact between the consumer and the service provider. Self-servicing is often a viable alternative to market purchases and market provision predominates.
Personal services comprise the following International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Rev. 3 sub-groups:
-hotels, bars and restaurants;
- recreation, amusements and cultural services;
- domestic services;
- other personal services

Producer services are intermediate inputs to further production activities that are sold to other firms, although households are also important consumers in some cases. They typically have a high information content and often reflect a “contracting out” of support services that could be provided in-house.

Social (and collective) services provide final consumption for households and are distinctive for their non-market character in most OECD countries. Collective consumption decisions and public financing are common, as is production by governments, non-profit organisations and subsidised private organisations.

Is a signalling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty (multicast) sessions consisting of one or several media streams. The modification can involve changing addresses or ports, inviting more participants, adding or deleting media streams, etc. Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information and online games.

Agreement for payment receipts from a project to be designated for a specific purpose.

The Set-aside Programme is a European Union programme for cereal, oilseed and protein crops that both requires and allows producers to set- aside a portion of their historical base acreage from current production. Mandatory set-aside rates for commercial producers is set at 10% until 2006