Statistical Terms Glossary

Sea traffic for which neither goods nor passengers are carried.

The weight of a vehicle (or combination of vehicles), excluding its load, when stationary and ready for the road, as determined by the competent authority of the country of registration.
Note: The unladen weight may include driver and fuel, dependent on national practice.

Motor gasoline where lead compounds have not been added to enhance octane rating. It may contain traces of organic lead.

Are those that lack identifiers or codes that can link samples to identified specimens or particular individuals.

Security not listed for trading on one of the regular stock exchanges and which is, therefore, traded directly or over the counter.

The market for securities not quoted on the major exchanges, often those of small- and medium-sized companies. Unlisted securities market is the British term, since 1980, for the market in stocks of smaller companies; over-the-counter market is the term used in the U.S. (the system is operated under the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) system) and Japan (the OTC Market Automated Quotation System is used); third market is the U.S. term used to describe the over the-counter market in exchange-listed securities; marché des valeurs mobilières non inscrites à la cote officielle is the official name and second marchéthe common term used in France for the unlisted securities market for small- and medium sized companies, since 1983, while marché hors cote is the name used for the general over-the-counter market for all companies.

Are equity/shares that give voting rights to the holder, but are not listed on an official stock exchange.

The movement of fish from a fishing vessel either by landing, transfer to tow or farm cages of live fish, or the trans-shipment of fish and fishery products.

Unorganized workers are workers who are not members of a trade union.

Unpaid care work refers to the provision of services within households for other household and community members. It avoids the ambiguities of other terms, including ‘domestic labour’, which can refer both to unpaid care work and to the work of paid domestic workers; ‘unpaid labour’, which can also refer to unpaid care work as well as unpaid work in the family business; ‘reproductive work’, which can refer to unpaid care work as well as giving birth and breastfeeding; and ‘home work’, which can also refer to paid work done in the home on subcontract from an employer. Each word in the term ‘unpaid care work’ is important: (a) unpaid: meaning that the person doing the activity does not receive a wage for it; (b) care: meaning that the activity serves people and their
well-being; (c) work: meaning that the activity has a cost in terms of time and energy and arises out of a social or contractual obligation, such as marriage or less formal social relationships.

A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person living in the same household and has no share in profits.

Unpaid family members (working in an establishment) include all persons living in the household(s) of the proprietor(s) of the owning enterprise and working in or for the establishment without regular pay for at least one third of the normal working hours of the establishment. Individual countries may find it necessary to either restrict or extend this definition to take account of their own culture and economy.

Work that produces goods or services but is unremunerated. It includes domestic labour, subsistence production and the unpaid production of items for market.

The person who performed any unpaid work to produce goods and services for others, in order to acquire experience or skills in the workplace in order to be able to find jobs, transportation or allowance or meals or gifts that offered to trainee are not considered as wage.

Road with a stabilized base not surfaced with crushed stone, hydrocarbon binder or bituminized agents, concrete or cobblestone.

Unprotected employment is employment without a written work contract or without the legally established social security coverage.

A plan (personal pension plan or occupational defined contribution pension plan) where the pension plan/fund itself or the pension provider does not offer any investment return or benefit guarantees or promises covering the whole plan/fund.

Unquoted shares are shares which are not traded on stock exchanges or other organised financial markets

Profits that have not become actual. The gains are realized when the security or other instrument on which there has been a gain is sold for a profit.

See Claim payments.

Is a fishery in which harvesters (and any other participants) are not subjected to any regulations.

Unregulated fishing refers to fishing activities:(1) in the area of application of a relevant regional fisheries management organization that are conducted by vessels without nationality, or by those flying the flag of a State not party to that organization, or by a fishing entity, in a manner that is not consistent with or contravenes the conservation and management measures of that organization; or(2) in areas or for fish stocks in relation to which there are no applicable conservation or management measures and where such fishing activities are conducted in a manner inconsistent with State responsibilities for the conservation of living marine resources under international law.

Unrelated diversification takes place when the products are very different from each other, for example a food processing firm manufacturing leather footwear as well.