Child health AFG 2007 NRVA report

152 Glossary Child is an individual under the age of 18 years. Contrac eptive methods, modern include female and male sterilization, oral hormonal pills, intra-uterine devices IUDs, male and female condoms, injectables, implants, vaginal barrier methods and emergency contraception. Contrac eptive methods, traditional include rhythm periodic abstinence, withdrawal, lactational amenorrhea method breastfeeding and folk methods. The con traceptive prevalence rate is the percentage of women married or in-union aged 15 to 49 who are currently using, or whose sexual partner is using, at least one method of contraception, regardless of the method used. Disabilit y is an umbrella term, covering impairments problems in body function or structure, activity limitations difficulties encountered by an individual in executing a asks or actions, and participation restrictions problems experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations. The ec onomically active population comprises all persons who furnish the supply of labour for the production of goods and services during a specified time-reference period one month in the NRVA 20078. Employ ment employed population comprises all persons aged 16 and over, who, during the reference period of one month, were either in paid employment or self employed for at least one hour per week. Employ ers are those workers working on their own account or with one or a few partners, and, in this capacity, on a continuous basis have engaged one or more persons to work for them in their business as ‘employees’ The partners may or may not be members of the same family or household.. The employment-to-population ratio is the proportion of a country’s working-age population that is currently employed. Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as giving no other food or drink – not even water – except breast milk. Househ old is a domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with non-relatives, and who share food and cooking arrangements. Household shock is defined as an uncontrollable and risky event that has negative consequences for the household. The He ad Count Rate or poverty incidence is the proportion of the population whose per-capita consumption is below the poverty line. Hazard ous work is work, which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children. The Infant Mortality Rate IMR is the number of deaths to children under twelve months of age per 1,000 live births. An industry consists of a group of establishments engaged on the same, or similar, kinds of production activity. Informal enterprises or informal sector are those enterprises with less than five employees that are not registered for tax payment or pay a fixed-rate tax and include i informal own-account enterprises household enterprises owned and operated by own-account workers, either alone or in partnership with members of the same or other households, which may employ contributing family workers and employees on an occasional basis, but do not employ employees on a continuous basis, and ii enterprises of informal employers household enterprises owned and operated by employers, either alone or in partnership with members of the same or other households, which employ one or more employees on a continuous basis. An in-m igrant is defined as someone who during the past five years lived outside the current area of residence for at least three consecutive months. Glossary