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Definitions (9/9) - Grouped by first letter "F"
44 Definitions Grouped by first letter "F" ➔ Glossary of frequently used abbreviations...
Roundwood that will be used as fuel for purposes such as cooking, heating or power production. It also includes wood chips to be used for fuel that ...
Fuelwood or firewood (in log, brushwood, pellet or chip form) obtained from natural or managed forests or isolated trees. Included are wood residues ...
Any training course continuing for the equivalent of at least two years full-time training after the end of compulsory education and completed at an ...
"Full trainload" means any consignment comprising one or more wagonloads transported at the same time by the same sender at the same station and ...
Benefits compensating for loss of earnings where a person is capable of working and available for work but is unable to find suitable employment, ...
"Full wagonload" means any consignment of goods for which the exclusive use of a wagon is required, whether the total loading capacity is utilised or ...
A permanent office to which, in principle, customers may go for all postal services, including sections of exchange offices or sorting offices ...
Minimum hours required by the national rules governing contracts of employment.
Full-time (FT) S&T personnel are defined as "those personnel who devote all or almost all their working time to a given scientific and technological ...
Diary in which the respondent reports each activity successively from the time of waking up, including the time an activity began and ended through ...
For the purposes of Statistics on the Structure of Earnings 1995 the following definition was used: Full-time employees were considered to be those ...
Reasons for the approach:
R&D may be the primary function of some persons (e.g. workers in an R&D laboratory) or it may be a secondary function (e.g. ...
An FTE may be thought of as one person-year. Thus, a person who normally spends 30% of his or her time on R&D and the rest on other activities (e.g. ...
Full-time equivalent (FTE) of R&D personnel is defined as the ratio of working hours actually spent on R&D during a specific reference period (usually ...
Full-time equivalent employment is the number of fulltime equivalent jobs, defined as total hours actually worked by all employed persons divided by ...
Full-time equivalent units are used in annual business statistics to improve the comparability of measures of employment. Figures for the number of ...
The concept of purpose, or function, relates to the type of need a transaction or group of transactions aims to satisfy or the kind of objective it ...
See: "Formal edit" http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/kbase/Glossary
"Functional" classifications are designed to classify certain transactions of producers and of three institutional sectors, namely household, general ...
Being able to read and write independently so as to enable full participation in society.
Ability to use numbers and other mathematical concepts at a level of competence that enables full participation in social and economic life.
Two types of regional division are usually recognised: - normative regions reflect political will; their boundaries are fixed in terms of the remit of ...
Direct investment is classified primarily on a directional basis: resident direct investment abroad and non-resident investment in the reporting ...
A functional urban area consists of a city and its commuting zone. Functional urban areas therefore consist of a densely inhabited city and a less ...
A city and its commuting zone. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-GQ-17-006&mode=view
An individual who is either an active (working or contributing, and hence actively accumulating assets) or passive (retired, and hence receiving ...
Investment fund primarily investing in "investment funds" shares or units. The criteria for classifying investment funds into funds of funds are ...
Fundamental estimation methods for register-based statistics consist of the methods for creating statistical registers - how to create the register ...
Occupational or personal pension plans that accumulate dedicated assets to cover the plan's liabilities.
Funded schemes are arrangements where there is an accumulation of assets, mainly financial assets, from contributions, with the explicit objective of ...
The act of accumulating assets in order to finance the pension plan.
The relative value of a scheme’s assets and liabilities, usually expressed as a percentage figure.
The timing of payments of contributions with the aim of meeting the cost of a given set of benefits under a defined benefit scheme. Possible ...
See: Contribution rate http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/oecd_pension_class_and_gloss_en_and_fr.pdf
The funding level expressed as a fraction.
Regulation that requires the maintenance of a certain level of assets in a pension fund in relation to pension plan liabilities.
Sums paid towards the cost of the funeral, burial (or other arrangement) of a deceased person protected by the scheme. This benefit is granted, as a ...
Compounds used to protect crops from diseases caused by fungal pathogens.
Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) and continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, ...
Sample persons from different sample households from the previous wave join together to form a new household.
Futures are commitments to deliver, or to take delivery of, a specified quantity of a standard grade of a commodity, foreign exchange, or a security ...
A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to exchange a real asset for a financial asset, or to exchange, on a specified date at ...
Alternative methodological approach which assigns for each individual a degree of poverty risk (or deprivation) rather than relying on the ...
Comparison of two texts, for which the outcome (usually) is a scalar that indicates the extent to which the texts are similar.