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Data definitionsconstruction completed, non-residential: Economic activitydirected to the creation or extension of fixed assets in theform of buildings (13, para. 15).consumer goods: Food and non-alcoholic beverages, alcoholicbeverages, tobacco and narcotics, clothing and footwear,hosing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, furnishings,household equipment, health, transport, communication,recreation and culture, education, restaurants and hotels,miscellaneous goods and services (9, p.83).consumer prices index, all items: Measures changes overtime in the general level of prices of goods and services thata reference population acquires, uses or pays forconsumption. A consumer price index is estimated as aseries of summary measures of the period-to-periodproportional change in the prices of a fixed set of consumergoods and services of constant quantity and characteristics,acquired, used or paid for by the reference population. Eachsummary measure is constructed as a weighted average of alarge number of elementary aggregate indices. Each of theelementary aggregate indices is estimated using a sample ofprices for a defined set of goods and services obtained in, orby residents of, a specific region from a given set of outletsor other sources of consumption goods and services (3,chap.7). See also index numbers, Laspeyres.consumer prices index, food: Measures changes over time inthe general level of prices of food goods that a referencepopulation requires, uses or pays for consumption (3,chap. 7). See also index number, Laspeyres.cotton fabrics: CPC Vers.1.1 (7), group 266: Woven fabrics(except special fabrics) containing cotton.cotton yarn: CPC Vers.1.1 (7), subclass 26360 and 26370:Textile yarn containing cotton.Ddeath rate, crude: Generally an annual rate consisting of theratio of the annual number of deaths occurring during acalendar year to the number exposed to the risk of dyingduring the same period, equivalent to the mean populationor average population for the period (18, para. 401). Deathis the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at anytime after live birth has taken place (post-natal cessation ofvital functions without capability of resuscitation). Thisdefinition therefore excludes foetal deaths (20, para. 46 (2)).domestic production: Goods and services created by theproductive activity of resident institutional units (22, para.6.238).domestic supply: See producers/wholesale prices indices.dwelling: A separate and independent place of abode intendedfor habitation by a single household or one intended forhabitation but occupied as living quarters by a household atthe time of the census. Construction of a room of suite ofrooms and its accessories in a permanent building orstructurally separated part thereof which, by the way it hasbeen built, rebuilt or converted, is intended for habitation byone household and is not used wholly for other purposes.It should have a separate access to a street (direct or via agarden or grounds) or to a common space within thebuilding (staircase, passage, gallery and so on) (19, paras.2.331-2.333).Eearnings (wages and salaries): Remuneration paid toemployees in cash and in kind for time worked or work donetogether with remuneration for time not worked, such asannual vacation and other paid holidays, and bonuses andgratuities, housing and family allowances (22, para. 7.32).See wages, earnings.electricity: Form of energy occurring in elementary particlesand macroscopic bodies either statically or dynamically (6).CPC Vers. 1.1 (7): Electrical energy (class 1710) Hydraulic,conventional, thermal, nuclear, geothermal, solar, tidal, etc.,in origin. Included are electric power plants which sell asignificant amount of electricity to others, as well asproduce electricity for their parent enterprise and which canbe reported separately from the other units of the parententerprise (16, class 4010).employment, paid, employee: Persons who during thereference period performed some work for wage or salary,in cash or in kind; persons who, having already worked intheir present job, were temporarily not at work during thereference period and had a formal attachment to their job asevidenced by, for example, a continued receipt ofwage/salary, an assurance of return to work following theend of the contingency, an agreement on the date of returnfollowing the short duration of absence from the job, and soon; persons who during the reference period performedsome work for profit or family gain, in cash or in kind;persons with an enterprise, which may be a businessenterprise, a farm or a service undertaking, who weretemporarily not at work during the reference period forsome specific reason (3).exchange rate: Price in a given currency at which bills drawnin another currency may be bought (6).For period average rates, the data are either the monthlyaverage of market rates or of official rates of the reportingcountry, or, if those are not available, monthly average ratesin New York, or, if those are not available, estimatesderived on the basis of a simple average of the end-ofmonthmarket rates in the markets of the reporting country(4, Introduction, sect. 1).exports of goods: Goods which subtract from the stock ofmaterial resources of a country by leaving its economicterritory. In the general trade system, the definition of thestatistical territory of a country coincides with its economicterritory (11, paras. 14-66).exports unit value index, all goods: Value at the level of asingle, homogeneous good is equal to the price per unit ofquantity multiplied by the number of quantity units. It isindependent of the choice of quantity unit. The Laspeyresunit value index is the average transaction price of a unit(22, paras. 16.9 and 16.13). See also exports of goods andindex number, Laspeyres.exports value, all goods: Equivalent basis as imports value.See imports value, all goods.October 2010 – octobre 2010 321