Statistical Yearbook of Palestine 2011
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Chapter Two
Concepts and Definitions
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Admissions:
Admitted patients to hospital for treatment or diagnosis and their stay at hospital for one night
or more.
Age at Death:
The age of the individual in years at the time of death
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Age-Sex Structure:
The composition of a population as determined by the number or proportion of males and
females in each age category. The age-structure of a population is the cumulative result of
past trends in fertility, mortality, and migration rates. Information on age-sex composition is
an essential prerequisite for the description and analysis of demographic data.
Age-Specific Fertility Rate:
The number of births by women of a given age group per 1000, women in that age
group.
Agricultural Census:
Is the total process of collecting, compiling, processing, analysing, evaluating and
disseminating to provide the statistical data on agricultural holdings, characteristics and
agricultural applications in a specific reference period, for all holdings within the country.
Agricultural Holding:
It is an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all
kept, livestock and all land used totally or partially for agriculture production purposes
regardless to title legal form or size. Single management may be exercised by an individual
or household jointly by two or more individuals or households by a clan or tribe or by a
juridical person such as: a corporation cooperative or government agency. The holdings land
may consist of one or more parcels located in one or more separate areas or in one or more
territorial or administrative divisions, providing the parcels share the same production means,
such as labour, farm buildings, machinery or draught
animals.
Agricultural Land:
It refers to the major classes of land use on agricultural holdings. For classification the "gross
area" is surveyed for each class. Agricultural land includes land under scattered farm
buildings, yards and their annexes, permanently uncultivated land, such as uncultivated
patches, banks footpaths, ditches, headlands and shoulders (ECE 1986).
Agricultural Year:
The period covering first of October to the end of September of the next year.
Animal Holding:
The presence of animals controlled by the holder, the holder should have any number of
cattle’s or camels, at least 5 heads of sheep or goats or pigs, at least 50 birds of poultry