Statistical Terms Glossary

Maximum tonnage of products that the oil pipeline may move during the given period.

The number of seats and berths and the number of authorized standing places available in a passenger vehicle when performing the service for which it is intended.

The carrying capacity of wagon is the maximum authorized weight it can carry.

Direct costs paid by an investor to maintain a security position, e.g. receiving less interest on short-term investments than is paid for borrowings.

Funds unused during a financial year which are transferred to the budget for the following financial year.

A cartel is a formal agreement among firms in an oligopolistic industry. Cartel members may agree on such matters as prices, total industry output, market shares, allocation of customers, allocation of territories, bid-rigging, establishment of common sales agencies, and the division of profits or combination of these.

See: Cartel, Collusion, Monopolisation

See: General obligations

A connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of the dry zone landscape, storing, conveying and utilizing water from a sporadic rivulet.

The fatality rate is the ratio of people who die from a specific disease to people with this disease.

A Case of occupational injury refers to the case of one worker incurring an occupational injury as a result of one occupational accident.

The number of recorded cases of a specific disease per 100,000 population in a given year.

Cash accounting records only cash payments/receipts and records them at the times these payments/receipts occur

Form of payment used in international trade whereby payment is made on receipt of bill of lading.

Hedging method consisting of sale of contracts on the forward market and simultaneous purchase of securities on the spot market.

Money received by a firm as a result of its operating activities, investment activities, and financing activities.

Control and use of liquid assets.

An interest-bearing current account, normally held with a stockbroker.

Bill introduced by the U.S. Treasury in 1975, designed to raise funds quickly for a short period, ranging from nine to twenty days' maturity. Payment must be made in federal funds.

See spot market.

Money paid out by a firm as a result of its operating activities, investment activities, and financing activities.

See: Spot rate

Reporting based on cash accounting systems.

Risk to actual cash receipts due to difference in spread between money borrowed medium-term and reinvested short-term.

Security loan where cash is posted as collateral for the borrowed security

A cash transfer consists of the payment of currency or transferable deposit by one unit to another without any counterpart

The provision of assistance in the form of cash to the poor or to those who face a probable risk of falling into poverty in the absence of the transfer.