Statistical Terms Glossary

Supply and use tables are accounts in physical units in the form of matrices that record the flows of natural resources, residuals, products and eco-systems inputs according to origins (supply) and destinations (uses).

This indicator measures the physical trade surplus or deficit of an economy. PTB equals imports minus exports. Physical trade balances may also be defined including hidden flows associated with imports and exports (for example on the basis of TMC accounts).

Physical violence is an act attempting to or resulting in pain and/or physical injury. It includes beating, burning, kicking, punching, biting, maiming, the use of objects or weapons, or tearing out hair. At its most extreme, physical violence may lead to femicide, or the gender-based killing of a woman. Some classifications also include trafficking and slavery in the category of physical violence because initial coercion is often experienced, and the young women and men involved end up becoming victims of further violence as a result of their enslavement.

Persons with scientific degree in medicine.

Physiotherapy is provide services that develop, maintain and restore people’s maximum movement and functional ability. They can help people at any stage of life, when movement and function are threatened by ageing, injury, diseases, disorders, conditions or environmental factors.

It is the storage form of phosphorus in plants and is found in high concentrations in seeds, cereals and pulses to allow the future germ to sprout adequately using its own nutrients – including the stored phosphorus.

Planktonic plant. Small, usually microscopic plants drifting in the upper layers of the ocean, consuming nutrients and light energy to produce biomass. In particularly nutrient-rich conditions (including eutrophication) phytoplankton blooms may occur and could be toxic.

Are government regulations that restrict or prohibit the importation and marketing of certain plant species, or products of these plants, so as to prevent the introduction or spread of plant pests or pathogens that these plants may be carrying.

The used for transporting cargo with no more than ( 2 tons) weight, closed - Sides and opened-end body while Van cars are closed ex.( Cars used for moving newspapers, Sweet, Food …etc.)

Predetermined amount paid per unit of output to worker under a piecework incentive plan.

Method of wage payment based on the number of units produced, or any work for which piece rates are paid.

Financing studies for a future project as part of a loan to finance another project usually in the same sector.

Transport of road vehicles by rail.

A Pigouvian tax is a tax levied on an agent causing an environmental externality (environmental damage) as an incentive to avert or mitigate such damage

One of the methods used by women for delaying or avoiding the coming pregnancy by taking a tablet.

A closed conduit, with pumps, valves and control devices, for conveying fluids, gases, or finely divided solids by pumping or compression.

An estimated monetary value reflecting the current stock of physical pipeline transport assets.

New and existing piping, rights-of-way, and any equipment, facility, or building used in the transportation of gas, hazardous liquids, or carbon dioxide, or in the treatment of gas during transportation.

The ratio of appraisal departures (i.e. loans that have passed the preparation stage) to the number of operations in the Bank's lending program.

All pipelines in a given area. Pipelines on the national territory include pipelines on the seabed of the country.