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social security schemes
<p style="text-align: justify;">Social security schemes are schemes imposed and controlled by government units for the purpose of providing social benefits to members of the community as a whole, or of particular sections of the community.</p>
Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
social transfers in kind
<p style="text-align: justify;">Social transfers in kind consist of goods and services provided to households by government and NPISHs either free or at prices that are not economically significant.</p>
Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
solid waste
Useless and sometimes hazardous material with low liquid content. Solid wastes include municipal garbage, industrial and commercial waste, sewage sludge, wastes resulting from agricultural and animal husbandry operations and other connected activities, demolition waste and mining residues.
Source : Environment
Source Detail : Compendium of Enviroment Statistics
state government
<p style="text-align: justify;">State governments are institutional units exercising some of the functions of government at a level below that of central government and above that of the governmental institutional units existing at a local level; they are institutional units whose fiscal, legislative and executive authority extends only over the individual "states" (often referred to as "provinces") into which the country as a whole may be divided.</p>
Source : National Accounts
Source Detail : Gross Domestics Product (GDP)
status in employment
<p style="text-align: justify;">Status in employment refers to the <strong>position or status </strong>of an employed person within the establishment or organisation for which he/she worked. Employed persons are classified according to the following employment status:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">(i). <strong>Employer</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A person who operates a business, a plantation or other trade and employs one or more workers to help him.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> (ii). <strong>Employee</strong></p> <p>A person who works for a public or private employer and receives regular remuneration in wages, salary, commission, tips or payment in kind.</p> <p><br /> (iii).<strong> Own account worker</strong></p> <p>A person who operates his own farm, business or trade without employing any paid workers in the conduct of his farm, trade or business.</p> <p><br /> (iv). <strong>Unpaid family worker</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A person who works without pay or wages on a farm, business or trade operated by another member of the family.</p>
Source : Social
Source Detail : Labour Force Survey Report
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