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Major groups (ISTAT - classification of occupations)

In the ISTAT classification, occupations are grouped into nine major groups:1. Managers2. Intellectual, scientific and highly specialised occupations3. Technicians4. Clerks5. Service workers and shop and market sales workers 6. Skilled agricultural and fishery workers7. Craft and skilled manual workers8. Plant and machine operators and assemblers9. Elementary occupationsIn the Excelsior Information system, major group 6 is included in major group 7.
Manager

Worker whose activity is characterised by a high level of professional competence and decision-making, directly related with the enterprise's objectives. On what concerns the Public Administration, are considered as managers the following job profiles: general managers, hospital doctors-in-chief, holders of University chairs, magistrates, researchers, bishops. As for the army, high-ranking officers (with a level higher than lieutenant colonel or similar positions).
Manual worker

Worker performing an activity that requires technical-practical knowledge. Manual workers are grouped into: skilled workers, semiskilled workers, general workers.
Marriage rate

Ratio of the number of marriages during the reference year to the average population, multiplied by 1 000.
Maternity benefit

Temporary monetary benefit paid during maternity leave, which replaces the earnings
Mediterranean maquis

Vegetation typical of the Mediterranean seaside, constituted by evergreen forest plants (cluster pine, cypress, ilex, cork oak, etc.). To these are associated, principally, evergreen shrubby plants (mastic tree, laurel, myrtle, strawberry tree, oleander, etc.). These woods are not subject to regular cut downs for the production of timber.
Medium-sized enterprise (trade)

In the commercial sector, a medium-sized enterprise is that enterprise that has between three and five persons employed (employees or self-employed).
Medium-sized publishers

Publishers that during the year published between 11 and 50 books.
Megawatt (MW)

Unit of measure corresponding to one million Watt.
Member of cooperative

Is a member of any production or service co-operative, regardless the sector of economic activity. Members of co-operatives are not engaged under a regular contract and are paid according to the quantity of work performed and/or a share in the co-operative's profits.
Members of boards and officers in enterprises

Within an enterprise (and local unit) some persons may have some specific qualifications (proprietor, partner, etc) or hold some specific offices (member of the board, chief executive officer, etc). Such qualifications and offices may of course change over time.The Business Register adopts the following four categories:- proprietors;- partners;- administrators;- other offices.
Mesoelement-based fertilisers

Mineral fertilisers containing one or more secondary fertilising chemical elements (calcium, magnesium, sulphur)
Microbiological pollution removal (disinfection) (of sewage sludge)

Treatment of waste water or sludge to reduce pathogenic activity below a certain level.
Microelement-based fertilisers

Mineral fertilisers containing one or more microelements or trace elements (boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, zinc).
Microelements

comprise boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum and zinc.
Middle-manager

Worker who performs managerial or co-ordination duties in technical, scientific or business fields, with different levels of responsibility. On what concerns the army: lieutenant colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, or similar positions.
Migration

Number of cancellations and registrations from and in the Population Registers, during the reference period.Registrations:- from another Italian commune: number of persons registered because of immigration from another commune in Italy. Data comprise those persons who, during the year, have been registered "for other reasons", including regularisations in the registers;- from abroad: number of persons registered because of immigration from foreign States. Cancellations:- - to another Italian commune: number of persons cancelled because of emigration to another commune in Italy and, therefore, registered in another commune. Data comprise those persons who, during the year, have been cancelled "for other reasons", including regularisations in the registers;- to abroad: number of persons cancelled because of emigration to foreign States.
Migration balance, foreign

Difference between registrations due to immigration from other municipalities and cancellations due to emigration to other municipalities.
Migration balance, internal

Difference between registrations due to immigration from other countries and cancellations due to emigration to other countries.
Migration balance, total

Difference between registrations due to immigration (from other municipalities or countries) and cancellations due to emigration (to other municipalities or countries).
Migration rate

Ratio of the migration balance (immigration minus emigration) during the reference year to the average population, multiplied by 1 000.
Milk cows

Cows that are assigned exclusively or prevalently to the production of milk (for drinking of for the production of dairy products).
Mini-market

Is a fixed retail outlet with a sales area in between 200 and 400 m2, which sells mostly food-products.
Miscellaneous products

This group comprises:- jewellery and silverware;- watches- costume jewellery;all products not classified elsewhere (e.g. flowers, plants, pet's articles, religious objects, coins, stamps, etc.).
Mixed coppice

Forest area constituted by forest trees mixed with simple coppice.
Mixed wood

Wood that does not have the characteristics of a pure wood
Mode of transport

The mode of transport is defined for outward flows as the active means of transport with which goods are presumed to leave the statistical territory of the Community for exports or of the Member State of dispatch for dispatches. For inward flows it is defined as the active means of transport with which the goods are presumed to have entered the statistical territory of the Community for imports or of the relevant Member State for arrivals.The modes of transport required to be distinguished by EU legislation are:Sea transportRail transport Road transportAir transportPostal consignmentFixed transport installationsInland water transportOwn propulsion
Moment magnitude

logarithmic scale of the energy released during an earthquake
Mono-established enterprise or institution

Juridical-economic entity that carries out its activity in only one place, which is the establishment of the enterprise or institution.
Monthly average expenditure of households

corresponds to the total expenditure of households divided by the number of households resident in Italy.
Moped

Motor vechicle with two or three wheels having less than 50 cc and achieving a maximum speed of 45 km per hour.
Mortality rate

Ratio of the number of deaths to the average resident population, multiplied by 1 000.
Multi-established enterprise or institution

Juridical-economic entity that carries out its activity in more than one place, each of which is an establishment of the enterprise or institution.
Municipal wastewater

The mixture of domestic wastewater with industrial wastewater and/or runoff rain water.