Statistics glossary

The concepts that begin with the selected letter along with their definition are listed below. Click "Further information" to be directed to the page where detailed information about the concept is located. You can use the links above if you want to change the start letter.

P

  • Pension fund entitlements

    Pension fund entitlements comprise the financial rights that current and former employees have with respect to: their employers; an employer-designated system to pay pensions as part of a remuneration agreement between the employer and the employees, or an insurer.

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  • Pension funds

    Assets created exclusively to fulfill a pension plan or plans assigned to it, in which the contributions, resources, and investments assigned to the plans are integrated. It lacks legal personality and is necessarily managed by a management entity with the assistance of a depository entity.

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  • Personnel expenses

    Compensation to personnel, regardless of the form or concept under which it is paid; Social Security contributions borne by the company, and other social expenses.

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  • Physical risks

    Risks arising from, on one hand, the impact of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves or floods (acute phenomena), and, on the other hand, long-term progressive changes in climate patterns, such as changes in precipitation or sea level rise (chronic phenomena).

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  • Portfolio investment

    Functional category of the financial account of the Balance of Payments (BoP) and the International Investment Position (IIP) that records the transactions (BoP) or net positions (IIP) of residents in negotiable securities issued by non-residents (assets) and of non-residents in securities issued by residents (liabilities).

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  • PPPF

    See Pension funds

  • Primary balance

    Net lending (+) or borrowing (-) of General Government, excluding interest expenses on liabilities of the same sector.

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  • Primary income (Balance of Payments)

    Income received by institutional units (residents in income and non-residents in payments) for their contribution to the production process, whether by providing labor, financial assets, or land to other non-resident institutional units.

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  • Production

    Activity aimed at creating products and services through the use of labor, capital, and other goods and services.

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  • Provisional data

    The provisional data is that which may still undergo variations because it iswithin the period open to ordinary revisions according to the established revision policy, which is outlined in the methodological notes.

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