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Definitions (8/17) - Grouped by first letter "P"
50 Definitions Grouped by first letter "P" ➔ Glossary of frequently used abbreviations...
Point-in-time prices prevail on a particular day of the month. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-04-14-661&mode=view
Sampling design whereby the selection of any unit of the population into the sample is decided independently from the selection of other units.
Police officers generally include all ranks of police officers including criminal police, traffic police, border police, gendarmerie, uniformed ...
Personnel in public agencies whose principal functions are the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the apprehension of alleged ...
The risk of nonpayment on an export contract or project due to action taken by the importer’s host government. Such action may include intervention ...
Poll taxes are taxes levied as specific amounts of money per adult person, or per household, independently of actual or presumed income or wealth. ...
Investments that lead to a modified or adapted production process. They serve to reduce the amount of pollution generated. When a new production ...
Investments that do not affect the production process itself and the amount of pollution generated. Instead they serve to collect and remove, measure ...
A two-dimensional object. An area feature that is represented in a vector GIS as a sequential series of x/y coordinates. These define the lines that ...
A GIS operation in which two polygon data layers are combined to create a new data layer. The output layer consists of the areas of intersection of ...
"Ponds" means relatively shallow and usually small bodies of still water or water with a low refreshment rate, most frequently artificially formed, ...
All those persons who are usually resident in the country (§ 19.10). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA2008.pdf
The population and housing census is the process that produces at the same time the information related to the population and the information related ...
Population base is a technical concept connected with the actual measurement process, the aim of which is to produce the Usual resident ...
Composition of usually resident population by country of citizenship.
Composition of usually resident population by country of birth. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_SDDS/en/migr_stock_esms.htm ...
Total process of planning, collecting, compiling, evaluating, disseminating and analyzing demographic, economic and social data at the smallest ...
Population change, defined generally, is the difference in the size of a population between the end and the beginning of a given time period (usually ...
Definition of the main types of population covered by the statistics.
The ratio of the (annual average) population of a region to the (land) area of the region; total area (including inland waters) is used when land area ...
The organic biodegradable load having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) of 60g of oxygen per day.
Organic biodegradable load having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) of 60g of oxygen per day.
The total number of people in a given area at a given time.
See: Population projections
Lattice composed of 1 km² grid cells overlaying a particular territory, for which information is collected relating to the number of inhabitants.
The "population not currently active", or, equivalently, persons not in the labour force, comprises all persons who were not employed or unemployed ...
The "population not economically active" comprises all persons, irrespective of age, including those below the age specified for measuring the ...
The "population not usually active" comprises all persons whose main activity status during the longer specified period was neither employed nor ...
Number of the inhabitants of a given area on 1 January of the year in question (or, in some cases, on 31 December of the previous year).
Population projections involve making population estimates or producing the most plausible figures for the years to come. Estimates are made using the ...
A graphical illustration - typically in the shape of a pyramid - which depicts the distribution of various age groups for each gender in a ...
Register describing the properties of members of a population.
Population projections carried out by Eurostat for all the Member States of the European Economic Area. These projections are comparable from country ...
The percentage of addresses within a municipality where household waste is collected regularly by or on behalf of the municipal authorities.
A record within a dataset which is unique within the population on a given key.
(1) For vital statistics purposes, the population that is subject to the occurrence of a vital event, such as the total population in the case of ...
A place for vessels to moor and to load or unload cargo or to disembark or embark passengers to or from vessels, usually directly to a pier.
(Fourth ...
Port accessibility is defined by the following characteristics: i) Maximum length of vessel which can be accommodated at the port - metres
ii) Maximum ...
A merchant ship makes a port call when it anchors or berths to load or unload cargo, to embark or disembark passengers or to facilitate excursions by ...
Number of cranes available in ports by lifting capacity. This definition is identical in the third and fourth version of the Transport Glossary.
Number of cranes available in ports by type a) Mobile container cranes
b) Other container cranes
c) Other crane This definition is identical in the ...
An enterprise carrying out in one or more places the provision of port services and whose main activity according to value added is port services. ...
Availability of short sea shipping and availability and distance to hinterland links from nearest port entrance in kms i) Short sea shipping
ii) ...
i) Total port land area - m2
ii) Crude oil and petroleum products storage areas - m2
iii) Other bulk storage and stacking areas - m2
iv) Container ...
Availability or not of navigation aids and services a) at ports and b) in the approach channels i) Pilotage services
ii) Lights and lighthouses
iii) ...
The port in which a passenger ends a journey. Note: A transfer from one merchant ship to another is regarded as disembarkation before re-embarkation. ...
The port in which a passenger started a journey. Note: A transfer from one merchant ship to another is regarded as embarkation after disembarkation. ...
The port at which a consignment of goods was loaded onto the ship from which it is unloaded at the reporting port. Note: Transshipments from one ...
The port at which a consignment of goods, loaded onto a ship at the reporting port, is to be unloaded from the same ship. Note: Transshipments from ...
Total quay length in metres.