Statistical Terms Glossary

Lead is a heavy metal whose compounds are highly poisonous to health. Its use in gasoline, paints and plumbing compounds has been generally reduced

Bank with main responsibility for arranging a bond issue or international Eurocredit. See also book-running lead bank, manager. Lead manager is also used in the sense of agent bank.

Motor gasoline with TEL (tetraethyl lead) and/or TML (tetramethyl lead) have been added to enhance octane rating.

Leadership skills are skills you use when organizing other people to reach a shared goal. Whether you’re in a management position or leading a project, leadership skills require you to motivate others to complete a series of tasks, often according to a schedule. Leadership is not just one skill but rather a combination of several different skills working together.

Is an aggregate time series displaying a reasonably consistent leading relationship with the reference series for the macroeconomic cycle in a country.

The total area of green leaves per unit area of ground covered. Usually expressed as a ratio.

Is a regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa. It was formed in Cairo on March 22, 1945 with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamed Jordan after 1946), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Yemen joined as a member on May 5, 1945. The Arab League currently has 22 members and four observers. The main goal of the league is to "draw closer the relations between member States and co-ordinate collaboration between them, to safeguard their independence and sovereignty, and to consider in a general way the affairs and interests of the Arab countries.

See interest leakage; investment leakage.

The period between harvests that lasts from May to August.

Individual acquisition or modification of information, knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values, skills, competencies or behaviours through experience, practice, study or instruction.

Deliberate activity in which an individual participates with the intention to learn.

Is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content.

Specification of learning outcomes to be achieved upon completion of an educational or learning activity. These encompass improving knowledge, skills and competencies within any personal, civic, social or employment related context. Learning objectives are typically linked to the purpose of preparing for more advanced studies and/or for an occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades.

Totality of information, knowledge, understanding, attitudes, values, skills, competencies or behaviours an individual is expected to master upon successful completion of an educational programme.

A contractual agreement between the landlord and the tenant for the tenancy of land.; An agreement whereby the lessor conveys to the lessee, in return for a payment or series of payments, the right to use an asset for an agreed period of time.

1.Telephone line (or communications circuit) that provides a fulltime dedicated connection to a network (such as a wide area network or internet). It acts like a fixed pipeline that carries data from one fixed point to another and makes services like frame-relay possible. Also called leased channel, leased circuit, or private line.2.Telephone line connection with only two end points. A PTP circuit is a direct channel between two specific locations, dedicated to one customer and billed usually at a fixed monthly cost irrespective of the line traffic. Also called point to point circuit, or private circuit.

Leases and other transferable contracts are leases or contracts where the lessee has the right to convey the lease to a third party independently of the lessor (e.g. leases of land and buildings and other structures, concessions or exclusive rights to exploit mineral deposits or fishing grounds, transferable contracts with athletes and authors and options to buy tangible assets not yet produced).

Leasing refers to the renting of an asset for a given period of time, as an alternative to outright purchase

Is leave granted to take care of a sick child or for other family reasons.

On the 9th November 2002 Berytech, the first Lebanese technological pole, was inaugurated. Berytech relies on the Lebanese poles of excellence, identifies the promotion of the pole and market survey. Environment and the companies hosted on the site. It coordinates, within a network of clearly identified competences, the functions of economic animation, strategic sectors to promote, and implements a synergy between a high level university.

LIBNOR is a public institution attached to the Ministry of Industry. It was established by a law dated 23/7/1962 as the sole authority to issue, publish and amend Lebanese standards and to give the right to use the Lebanese Conformity Mark (NL Mark).National standards cover all products falling within the agro-food, chemical, construction, mechanical, electrotechnical and electromechanical sectors.

Induced expulsion of the foetus during the first part of a pregnancy, permitted by the law for health or other reasons.

Assistance provided by the state to persons who do not have sufficient financial means to defend themselves in court (or to bring judicial proceedings).

Most societies provide for the legal recognition of economic entities, under laws that enable them to define and register themselves as legal entities. Legal entities are recognized by law or society, independently of the persons or institutions that own them. The characteristics of a legal entity are: they own goods or assets, they incurliabilities and they enter into contracts. The legal unit always forms, either by itself or sometimes in combination with other legal units, the legal basis for the statistical unit.

Are types of institutional units which are created for purposes of production, mainly corporations and non-profit institutions (NPIs), or government units, including social security funds; they are capable of owning goods and assets, incurring liabilities and engaging in economic activities and transactions with other units in their own right.