Glossary

Imports comprise all goods (new or second hand) that enter the country (through payment or free of charge) as well as all services that non-resident units supply to resident ones.

All persons who are not classified as employed or unemployed are defined as inactive. Comprise persons in a non-professional condition: aged under 15 years, housewives, students, persons retired from work. under military service, unable to work.

The process of burning solid waste under controlled conditions to reduce its weight and volume, often to produce energy

In the income account are recorded all operations concerning the allocation (and re-allocation) of resources (interest, dividends, current transfers, etc.).As concerns the national economy, the most important flows recorded in the income account are:- revenues: compensation of employees, income from capital ? enterprises of resident factors, indirect taxes, current transfers from the rest of the world;- outlays: contributions to production.

Are compulsory payments made by the production units the Public Administration or to EU Institutions. They are calculated on the production or imports of goods and services, on the use of labour, on the property or use of land, buildings or other goods employed in the production activity. They do not depend on the profit made by the production unit.

Crops that are normally not sold directly for consumption because they need to be industrially processed prior to final use.Examples: Tobacco, hops, cotton, rape, turning rape, soya, linseed, flax, hemps, etc.

Industrial Wastewater is process and non-process wastewater generating from manufacturing, commercial, mining, and silvicultural facilities or activities. This includes the runoff and leachate from areas that receive pollutants associated with industrial or commercial storage, handling or processing, and all other wastewater not otherwise defined as domestic wastewater.

A patient who is admitted to a hospital or clinic for treatment that requires at least one overnight stay.

Groups of institutional units having similar economic behaviour (financial and non-financial companies, households, public administrations, rest of the world).

A resident production units that has a complete accounting system and decides autonomously on the various aspects of its activity.

Insurance against disability, old age and widowship. Is compulsory for all employees of the private sector, all autonomous workers (craftsmen, traders and sharecroppers), and all parasubordinate workers.

Intermediate consumption represents the value of all goods and services used as inputs in the production process, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is recorded as fixed capital consumption. The goods and services concerned are either transformed or used up in the production process (cf. ESA 95, 3.69.). In a detailed classification by different categories of items, intermediate consumption shows the interlocking of agriculture with other branches of the economy brought about by inputs.

Worker performing activities in-between those of clerical workers and skilled manual workers, that is, a person who has competence to control groups of manual workers.

Movement of goods (in one and the same loading unit or a vehicle) by successive modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves when changing modes. Vehicle can be a road or rail vehicle or a vessel.

Air transport to or from airports located outside the Italian territory.

Is a person who goes to a different country from the one where he/she normally resides for a period of time of less than one year, and for a reason other than a temporary or permanent movement from the country of residence or the performance of a paid activity in the visited country.

With the removal of frontier controls between Member States under the Single Market programme, a new system, known as Intrastat was devised to collect statistics on intra-Community trade. Developed by Eurostat and operational since 1 January 1993, Intrastat involves collecting information directly from businesses and makes use of Value Added Tax (VAT) data and the VAT reporting system.Intra-EU trade statistics record the arrival and dispatch of movable property recorded by each Member State.Intra-EU trade statistics do not record goods in transit. Intra-EU trade statistics are not based on either the general or the special trade system; these concern customs procedures. Given its coverage of transactions, however, Intrastat closely matches the general trade system.Intra-EU trade statistics do not cover the following arrivals and dispatches:- those effected by private individuals or small enterprises which are exempt from periodic tax declarations;- those which are excluded pursuant to special provisions of Community legislation.

Produced assets that consist of goods and services that came into existence in the current period or in an earlier period held for sale, use in production or other use at a later date. They consist of materials and supplies, work in progress, finished goods and goods for resale.Included are all inventories held by government, including, but not limited to, inventories of strategic materials, grains and other commodities of special importance to the nation.

Investment goods are goods used for the production of other goods (machinery, means of transport, etc.). They are used for a period longer than one year.

Gross fixed investment of non-financial companies as a percentage of their gross value added.