Statistical Terms Glossary

Refers to the total number of nurses certified/registered and actively practicing in public and private hospitals, clinics and other health facilities, including self-employed. Nursing assistants and midwives should be included. Data should exclude nurses who are working abroad, working in administrative, research and industry positions. Data should be calculated to represent full-time equivalents (FTEs).

Refers to the number of pharmacists (self-employed or employed by others). The data exclude full-time salaried pharmacists working in hospitals and in pharmaceutical manufacturing corporations as well as pharmacists working abroad. They include foreign pharmacists licensed to practise. Numbers should be converted to full-time equivalents (FTEs).

The amount the lead manager of a Eurocredit takes for his own fee, before dividing the remainder of the management fee among the rest of the management group.

[Distance] from the tip of the snout to the base of the first anal fin ray.

Workers in precarious employment can be either: (a) workers whose contract of employment leads to the classification of the incumbent as belonging to the groups of casual workers, short-term workers or seasonal workers; or (b) workers whose contract of employment will allow the employing enterprise or person to terminate the contract at short notice and/or at will, the specific circumstances to be determined by national legislation and custom.

The total weight of fish that die as a result of encountering the fishing vessel or fishing gear, but are not available for further processing. May be reported or unreported.

involves the application of prudent foresight when action needs to be taken with incomplete knowledge. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

Principles according which:
- Renewable resources should not be used in excess of their natural regeneration.
- Non-renewable resources should be used prudently and efficiently with care that the same function is available to future generations, say by technological development or shift to use of renewable resources.
- Sink functions should not be used beyond their assimilative capacities.
- Activities which cause deterioration in service functions should be avoided or at least minimised.

Any kind of water that falls from clouds as a liquid or a solid.

A farming system that uses GPS technology involving satellites and sensors on the ground and intensive information management tools to understand variations in resource conditions within fields. This information is used to apply fertilizers and other inputs more precisely and to predict crop yields more accurately.

The management of livestock production using the principles and technology from process engineering.

Predatory pricing is a deliberate strategy, usually by a dominant firm, of driving competitors out of the market by setting very low prices or selling below the firm’s incremental costs of producing the output (often equated for practical purposes with average variable costs). Once the predator has successfully driven out existing competitors and deterred entry of new firms, it can raise prices and earn higher profits.

See: Barriers to entry, Anti-competitive practices

Part of the share capital of a company that ranks after secured creditors but before ordinary shareholders in the event of liquidation. Preference rights are defined in the articles of association of the relevant company but may relate to dividend, voting rights, or distribution of surplus assets.

Treatment of one individual or group of individuals in a manner that is likely to lead to greater benefits, access, rights, opportunities or status than those of another individual or group of individuals.

Stock that pays a stipulated dividend to the holder. Preferred stock has a claim prior to that of common stock upon the earnings of a corporation and upon the assets of the corporation in the event of its liquidation. Frequently without voting rights.

the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as an embryo or fetus, in a woman's uterus., it last for 40 weeks or 280 days. And can be confirmed by a pregnancy do confirmatory test for pregnancy by testing urine.