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Degree of organisation (trade union membership rate)
The number of employees who are trade union members, expressed as a percentage of the total number of employees.
Wage restraint
A reduction in the pay increases of contractual wages. The main reason is to use the money saved to create new jobs or limit reductions.
Occupational health
Protecting and improving the health of employees when related to the relationship employees have with their work and working environment.
Neighbourhood
Part of a municipality dominated by a given type of land use or buildings. For instance: industrial area, residential area with high-rise or low-rise buildings.
Electricity
Flow of electrons used to light lamps or to operate washing machines. Electrons are elementary particles in an atom with a negative charge that flow by a potential difference
Other household member
Someone forming a private household without being a partner, parent in a single family household, or child living at home.
Not starting and/or ending treatment
Medical decision at the end of life in which the likelihood or certainty exists that a patient will die sooner.
Perinatal mortality (WHO)
The total number of still births after a pregnancy of at least 28 weeks, plus babies who died within a week after birth.
College for Documentary Information Management
Training in information management provided by the SOD, the foundation for teaching and exams in documentary information supply and administrative organisation.
Independent thrombosis service
Enterprises classified in SBI 86.92.4 ("Medical laboratories, intensive care for thrombotic patients and other analyses supporting medical treatment") with the only activity thrombosis service.
Land (surface)
In determining the total land area the inland waterways of less than six metres wide, marshes, salt marshes, swamps, reedy lands etc. are included.
Subjective well-being
The degree of satisfaction one feels about one’s financial and social position, housing situation, leisure, friends, society, marriage and family.
Subsidies
Payment by the government or EU institutions to resident producers with the aim to influence production levels, prices, or remuneration of the production factors.
Open-ended labour contract
An employment contract which does not specify a fixed period of time or a final date of employment, except a retirement date.
Current account
Current accounts concern the generation, distribution and redistribution of income and its use in the form of final consumption. They permit the calculation of saving.
Subsidies on imports
Subsidies on imports are related to the value or the volume of imported products that are re-exported without undergoing any processing.
Museum management
The person or institution responsible for the museum and for the preservation and putting together of the collection. This is not necessarily the owner of the collection.
Zoo
A collection of animals, birds, reptiles, fish, dolphins, safari park, nature park etc accessible to the public, excl. animal shelters, children's farms, deer parks or travelling show.
Contributing family worker
A person who works, not on the basis of a an explicit employment contract, in the company or practice of the partner or parents.
Yield of government bonds
Indicator of long-term interest calculated on the basis of the prices of all government bonds with a fixed life quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
Steam
Water of 100 or more degrees Celsius. Expressed as normal steam, that is steam with a pressure of 1 bar and a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius.
Gross wage applicable for social insurance schemes
The wage on which employees have to pay social security contributions such as unemployment (WW) and health insurance (ZW).
Country of destination (trade)
'The country to which goods are transported or in which services are provided, as known at the time of export.
Steam and/or warm water
Steam is water with a temperature of more than 100 degrees Celsius. Warm water has a temperature of less than 100 degrees Celsius
Industry
'SIC sections B-F, thus including: - Mineral extraction; - Manufacturing industry; - Production and distribution of and trade in electricity, natural gas, steam and water; - Construction industry.