Statistical Terms Glossary

Workers in short-term employment are workers who hold explicit or implicit contracts of employment, which are expected to last longer than the period used to define casual workers, but shorter than the one used to define regular employees. These workers may be classified as employees or own-account workers according to the specific characteristics of the employment contract.

Short-term instruments are instruments with a maturity of up to one year

Short-term interest rates are the rates at which short-term borrowings are effected between financial institutions or the rate at which short-term government paper is issued or traded in the market. Typical standardized names are money market rate and treasury bill rate.

Used for Loans with a maturity of one year or less.

Short-term loans are loans that have an original maturity normally of one year or less, but with a maximum of two years or less to accommodate variations in practice between countries

Is a person who moves to a country other than that of his or her usual residence for a period of at least three months but less than a year (12 months) except in cases where the movement to that country is for purposes of recreation, holiday, visits to friends or relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage.

Note with maturity of one year or less.

Paper with maturity of one year or less.

Market for paper with maturity of one year or less.

Short-term securities other than shares consist of securities other than shares that have an original maturity of one year or less but with a maximum of two years or less to accommodate variations in practice between countries

A traction unit designed for use only on shunting yards, stations and depots.

Operation of moving a rail vehicle or set of rail vehicles inside a railway station or other railway installations (depot, workshop, marshalling yard, etc.).

Shuttle trade refers to the activity in which individual entrepreneurs buy goods abroad and import them for resale in street markets or small shops. Often the goods are imported without full declaration in order to avoid import duties.

Sickness programmes provide short-term cash benefits in case of illness, which result in incapacity to work (usually up to one year, afterwards the case is considered under disability programmes). Cash benefits are paid out to compensate for the loss of earnings (part or all).

Tracks branching off running tracks.

Used to designate a purely visual language of signs which designates a spoken language expressed in signs.

The role of the interpreter is to interpret between people who use a signed language and a spoken language and provide complete and accurate information both to Deaf and hearing people. In order to work effectively as an interpreter it is important that the interpreter focus on impartially performing their interpreting work. Interpreters provide interpretation including all of the content, contextual information in order to realize the communication goals of the persons involved in the interaction and improve conditions for productive communication to both sides.

In the field of telecommunication, signalling (UK spelling) or signalling (US spelling) has the following meanings: The use of signals for controlling communications. In a telecommunications network, the information exchange concerning the establishment and control of a connection and the management of the network, in contrast to user information transfer. The sending of a signal from the transmitting end of a circuit to inform a user at the receiving end that a message is to be sent. Signalling systems can be classified according to their principal properties

Significant adverse impacts are those that compromise ecosystem integrity (i.e. ecosystem structure or function) in a manner that impairs the ability of affected populations to replace themselves and that degrades the long-term natural productivity of habitats, or causes on more than a temporary basis significant loss of species richness, habitat or community types. Impacts should be evaluated individually, in combination and cumulatively.

Damage that exceeds an internationally agreed threshold.