Statistical Terms Glossary

An aviation enterprise which operates aircrafts for commercial purposes, which:
- Performs scheduled or non-scheduled air transport services, or both, available to the public for carriage of passengers, mail, and/or cargo;
- Is certified for such purposes by the civil aviation authority of the State in which it is established.

A defined area of land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft and open for commercial air transport operations.

An estimated monetary value reflecting the current stock of physical airport infrastructure assets.

Parking facilities provided at the airport.

Facilities provided within the airport for connection to the following modes of transport:
-        High-speed rail;
-        Main line rail;
-        Metro and underground services;
-        Interurban bus services;
-        Local bus services;
-        Taxi and passenger cars.

An air transport undertaking operating a commercial airport.

Two airports between which travel is authorized by a passenger ticket or part of a ticket, or between which freight and mail shipments are made in accordance with a shipment document or part of it (air waybill or mail delivery bill).

A defined rectangular area of an airport prepared for the landing and take-off of aircrafts with the following characteristics:
-        Take-off run available: the length of runway declared available and suitable for the ground run of an aircraft taking off;
-        Landing distance available: the length of runway declared available and suitable for the ground run of an aircraft landing.

An undertaking which provides airport services such as aircraft ground handling, fuelling, maintenance and security; and passenger services such as check in, baggage handling, cargo handling and other services.

A defined path on an airport established for the taxiing of aircrafts and intended to provide a link between one part of the airport and another.

A self-contained facility for handling passengers and/or freight:
-        Passenger terminal: airport facilities for the handling of passengers, including passenger check-in, baggage handling, security, immigration and passenger boarding and disembarkation;
-        Freight terminal: airport facilities for the handling of freight shipments, including freight acceptance and release, secure storage, security and documentation.

For statistical purposes, airport-to-airport distance means the airport-to-airport great circle distance in kilometres.

Actual time spent using a wireless phone.

The small or medium flotation device used for transferring goods in/ out of water, also used for transferring petroleum products.

Alcatel’s Digital Bridge Initiative seeks to create win-win solutions based on innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in under-served, usually rural areas, in emerging countries. This is undertaken with the active involvement of local players, in order to create high added value services and applications designed to answer the needs of the local population.

A reproductive explosion of algae in a lake, river, or ocean.

A reduction in the growth rate of a species at low densities.; Consistently high exploitation rates when stock size is low.

An agroforestry practice where perennial crops are simultaneously grown with an arable crop (barley, oat etc.).

Scheduled or non-scheduled air service performed by aircraft carrying revenue loads other than revenue passengers, i.e. freight and mail.

Any options transaction in which commissions eat up all potential profit.

The application of this concept is one of the two main approaches to measuring earnings. The concept is explained in the International Accounting Standard No.8, “Unusual and Prior Period Items and Changes in Accounting Policy”. When earnings are measured on the basis of this concept, income is considered to be the amount remaining after all items (including write-offs and capital gains and losses, and excluding dividends and any other transactions between the enterprise and its shareholders or investors) causing any increase or decrease in the shareholders’ or investors’ interests during the accounting period, are allowed for.

Mandatory and specific country risk reserves for U.S. banks against value Impaired claims as defined by the U.S. Interagency Country Exposure Review Committee (ICERC).

Applying certain criteria to achieve fairness in allocating scarce resources such as water, food, medicine, and the like, depending on priorities

An analytical way, using input-output techniques, to describe emissions according to the origin (production, consumption and imports) and final demand categories (final consumption, capital formation and exports).

The purpose of the allocation of other primary income account is to return from the concept of entrepreneurial income to the concept of primary income. It therefore contains the elements of primary income not included in the entrepreneurial income account

The allocation of primary income account focuses on resident institutional units or sectors in their capacity as recipients of primary incomes rather than as producers whose activities generate primary incomes; it lists two kinds of income under “resources”:

(a) primary incomes already recorded in the generation of income account that are receivable by resident institutional units, and

(b) property incomes receivable from the ownership of financial or tangible non-produced assets (mainly land or sub-soil assets).

Determines the species (and amount of) which may be caught whether in relation to particular stocks or groups of stocks or catch per vessel over a period of time or to the catch by nationals of any State during a specified period. Includes transferability, quota swaps.

See:Pareto efficiency