Statistical Terms Glossary

All parts of the pipe conduit, completed with such equipment as valves, compressor stations, communications systems and meters, for transporting natural and/or supplemental gas from one point to another, usually from a point in or beyond the producing field or processing plant to another pipeline or to points of utilization.

Gas works gas covers all types of gas produced in public utility or private plants, whose main purpose is the manufacture, transport and distribution of gas. It includes gas produced by carbonisation (including gas produced by coke ovens and transferred to gas works), by total gasification (with or without enrichment with oil products), by cracking of natural gas, and by reforming and simple mixing of gases and/or air. This heading also includes substitute natural gas, which is a high calorific value gas manufactured by chemical conversion of a hydrocarbon fossil fuel.

This group includes gases obtained from the carbonization or gasification of carbonaceous material of fossil or biomass origins in gas works. The gases comprise: (a) gases obtained from carbonization or gasification of coals, cokes, biomass or waste; and (b) substitute natural gas (a methane-rich gas) made from synthesis gas.

Oil obtained from the lowest fraction from atmospheric distillation of crude oil.

This includes all light hydrocarbon oils for use in aviation turbine power units.
They distil between 100 degrees C and 250 degrees C. It is obtained by blending kerosenes and gasoline or naphthas in such a way that the aromatic content dos not exceed 25 per cent in volume, and vapour pressure is between 13.7 kPa and 20.6 kPa. Additives can be included to improve fuel stability and combustibility.

Complex mixtures of volatile hydrocarbons distilling between approximately 25°C and 220°C and consisting of compounds in the C4 to C12 range.

Light hydrocarbons for use in aviation turbine power units, distilling between 100°C and 250°C. They are obtained by blending kerosene and gasoline or naphtha in such a way that the aromatic content does not exceed 25 per cent in volume, and the vapour pressure is between 13.7 kPa and 20.6 kPa.

See General Agreement on Trade in Services

See General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

A man whose enduring romantic, emotional and/or physical attraction to other men. The term can be used to describe women who are attracted to other women.

See Gross domestic product (GDP)

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - expenditure-based

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Income-based

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Output-based

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - current prices

See Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at market prices

See Gross domestic product (GDP) deflator

Any tools used to catch fish, such as hook and line, trawls, gill nets, traps, spears, etc.

The main reported mechanisms continued to be the classic fisheries management tools such as managing fisheries through access regulation (57 percent), gear regulations, closed seasons, total allowable catches and quota controls, etc. However, actual precautionary mechanisms, such as the setting of quotas at a proportion of what research would permit as the maximum sustainable yield, remained few.

A type of input control used as a management tool whereby the amount and/or type of fishing gear used by fishers in a particular fishery is restricted by law.

Refers to a fishing method's ability to target and capture organisms by size and species during the fishing operation allowing non-targets to be avoided or released unharmed.

Ratio of capital plus reserves to loans outstanding and loans disbursed.
see leverage ratio

An aggregation method in which category "international prices" (reflecting relative category values) and country purchasing power parities (PPPs), (depicting relative country price levels) are estimated simultaneously from a system of linear equations. Has the property of base-country invariance, matrix consistency and transitivity.

Bond issued on the Japanese market in currencies other than yen. (Yen-denominated bonds are known as Samurai bonds.)

Refers to the socially constructed relationship between women and men and the attributes, behavior and activities each is expected to adhere to. Gender differences are determined and reinforced by cultural, historical, ethnic, religious and economic factors.
Gender is often wrongly conflated with ‘sex', which refers to the biological differences between women and men. Gender means the state of being male or female, what it means to be a man or a woman, and in a social context it refers to the social differences between men and women.

Similar to the concept of gender sensitivity, gender accommodating means not only being aware of gender differences but also adjusting and adapting to those differences. However, gender accommodating does not address the inequalities generated by unequal norms, roles and relations (i.e., no remedial or transformative action is developed).