• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (Portugal)

• ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
• GROSS VALUE ADDED:  The value generated by any unit engaged in a production activity corresponding to the balancing item of the production account, which includes output as resource and intermediate consumption as a use, before allowing for the comsumption of fixed capital.
• FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYMENT:  Full-time equivalent employment is the number of full-time equivalent jobs, defined as total hours worked divided by average annual hours worked in full-time jobs in the economic territory.
• GROSS VALUE ADDED PER CAPITA:  Indicator that evaluates the average contribution given by each worker to the wealth created by the enterprise, being calculated by dividing the GVA of the entreprise by the number of persons employed in that enterprise.
• REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).

(Manufacturing value added/ Manufacturing employment (FTE))