Statistical Terms Glossary

A road vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry one or more persons.

The total number of passenger seats available for sale on a means of transport between the origin and destination of the trip.

Ship designed specifically to carry more than 12 fare-paying passengers whether berthed or unberthed.

The number of authorized standing places available in a passenger vehicle when performing the service for which it is intended.

Train station for passenger traffic, equipped with specific facilities for the access of the passengers and providing related services.

The sum of the products obtained by multiplying the number of sea passengers carried on each journey by the port-to-port distance.

Train station for passenger traffic, equipped with specific facilities for the access of passengers and providing related services.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of one passenger carried in a given mode of transport (road, rail, air, sea, inland waterways) over one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the transport of one sea passenger over one kilometre.

A passenger-kilometre is performed when a passenger is carried for one kilometre.

A passenger-kilometre is offered when one unit of passenger capacity is sailed one kilometre.

Unit of measure representing the movement of one authorized passenger carrying capacity in a seagoing vessel over one kilometre.

The sum of the products obtained by multiplying the number of passengers carried on each flight stage by the airport-to-airport distance.

The product of multiplying the number of passengers flown between two airports as initial origin and fi nal destination by the airport-to-airport distance.

The passenger-kilometres offered is determined by the authorized passenger capacity of the means of transport and the origin-to-destination distance (in kilometres) for all journeys.

Passenger-kilometres performed is obtained by multiplying the number of passengers carried in a given mode of transport by the origin-to-destination distance in kilometres for all journeys.

Includes all passengers whose journey begins or terminates at the reporting airport.

The number of passengers on board a merchant ship or aircraft or road vehicle or train upon the departure from the origin of the trip and on arrival at the destination.

The total number of people transported by buses operating on various itineraries except the driver

Include Private Cars, Taxis, Motorcycles, and Buses.

Passive bribery is the offence committed by the official receiving the bribe.

A level crossing without any form of warning system or protection activated when it is unsafe for the user to traverse the crossing. Sometimes also referred to as passive grade crossing.

A security representing an ownership interest in an underlying pool of mortgages. The cash flow from the underlying mortgages is “passed through” to the security holder as monthly payments of principal, interest, and prepayments. Pass-through securities have been guaranteed and issued by the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or “Fannie Mae”), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or “Freddie Mac”), as well as private institutions.

Password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach is to repeatedly try guesses for the password. The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (though installing an entirely new password is less of a security risk, but involves system administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or as a preventive measure by system administrators to check for easily crackable passwords. On a file-by file basis, password cracking is utilized to gain access to digital evidence for which a judge has allowed access but the particular file's access is restricted.

Based on the degree of economic dependency on livestock, a pastoral production system has been defined as one in which 50 percent or more of household gross revenue (the total value of marketed production plus the estimated value of subsistence production) comes from livestock or livestock-related activities, or where more than 20 percent of household food energy is directly derived from livestock or livestock-related activities.