Statistical Terms Glossary

Municipal waste consists of products that are combusted directly to produce heat and/or power and comprises wastes produced by the residential, commercial and public services sectors that are collected by local authorities for disposal in a central location. Hospital waste is included in this category.

Municipal wastes are wastes produced by residential, commercial and public services sectors that are collected by local authorities for treatment and/or disposal in a central location

Annual quantity of water withdrawn primarily for the direct use by the population. It includes renewable freshwater resources as well as potential over-abstraction of renewable groundwater or withdrawal of fossil groundwater and the potential use of desalinated water or treated wastewater. It is usually computed as the total water withdrawn by the public distribution network. It can include that part of the industries, which is connected to the municipal network. The ratio between the net consumption and the water withdrawn can vary from 5 to 15% in urban areas and from 10 to 50% in rural areas.

Municipal water withdrawal as percentage of total water withdrawal.

The muroami fishing technique, employed on coral reefs in Southeast Asia, uses an encircling net together with pounding devices. These devices usually comprise large stones fitted on ropes that are pounded onto the coral reefs. They can also consist of large heavy blocks of cement that are suspended above the sea by a crane fitted to the vessel. The pounding devices are repeatedly and violently lowered into the area encircled by the net, literally smashing the coral in that area into small fragments in order to scare the fish out of their coral refuges. The "crushing" effect of the pounding process on the coral heads has been described as having long lasting and practically totally destructive effects.

Mutagen is a factor that can cause a change in genetic properties

A mutation is a characteristic(s) possessed by an individual not acquired from either parent but capable of being transmitted to progeny

A mutual fund is a financial structure through which investors pool their funds to invest in a diversified portfolio of securities. Individual investors purchase shares in the fund, representing an ownership interest in the large pool of underlying assets i.e. they have an equity stake. The selection of assets is made by professional fund managers.

Mutual funds are financial institutions through which investors pool their funds to invest in a diversified portfolio of securities. The shares in the fund purchased by individual investors represent an ownership interest in the pool of underlying assets—that is, the investors have an equity stake.

A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities.[1] The mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades the pooled money on a regular basis. The net proceeds or losses are then typically distributed to the investors annually.

See North American Free Trade Agreement

Market where great emphasis is placed on the standing and reputation of the borrowers (e.g., the Eurodollar market).

A program or computer server that implements a name-service protocol. It maps a human-recognizable identifier to a system-internal, often numeric, identification or addressing component.

Plastic particles of size ranging from 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) (0.001 µm-0.1 µm).

It permits manipulation and manufacture at the molecular level.; Application of scientific knowledge to manipulate and control matter at the nanoscale in order to make use of size- and structure-dependent properties and phenomena, as distinct from those associated with individual atoms or molecules or with bulk material.

Naphtha is a feedstock destined either for the petrochemical industry (e.g. ethylene manufacture or aromatics production) or for gasoline production by reforming or isomerisation within the refinery.
Naphtha comprises material in the 30 degrees C and 210 degrees C distillation range or part of this range.

See Concessional restructuring

Easily available money, i.e. cash, checking accounts, very short-term liquid funds, etc. Equivalent to M1.

In non-cooperative oligopoly theory it is necessary to model the manner in which firms choose strategies, given the fact that their decisions will affect their rivals. The most common assumption is that each firm chooses its strategy so as to maximize profits, given the profit-maximizing decisions of other firms. The result is a Nash Equilibrium, developed by the game theorist John Nash

A matrix presentation of monetary accounts augmented by the input of natural resources and ecosystem inputs and residual outputs in physical terms. It is synonymous with hybrid supply and use tables.

National accounts are a coherent, consistent and integrated set of macroeconomic accounts, balance sheets and tables based on a set of internationally agreed concepts, definitions, classifications and accounting rules.

National accounts provide a comprehensive accounting framework within which economic data can be compiled and presented in a format that is designed for purposes of economic analysis, decision-taking and policy-making.

Generic name used in various contexts, for example: (1) National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (Shark-plan), Australia, part of the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (IPOA-Sharks); (2) National Action Plan to combat trafficking in human beings.

Air transport on a domestic flight.

An American stock exchange. The full form is National Association of Securities and Dealers Automated Quotation. It is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States. With approximately 3,700 companies and corporations, it has more trading volume than any other stock exchange in the world.[1]

See federally chartered bank.