ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATIONS Advanced course Day 1 – second morning session International system of classifications Zsófia Ercsey - KSH – Hungary Marie-Madeleine Fuger - INSEE – France Hans Van Hooff - CBS - Netherlands THE CONTRACTOR IS ACTING UNDER A FRAMEWORK CONTRACT CONCLUDED WITH THE COMMISSION

Functions and limits of the international harmonization The actors The international system of economic classifications Historical background Functions and limits of the international harmonization The actors The Statistical Commission of the United Nations The Expert Group on international statistical classifications (EG) Technical Subgroups (TSG) Important dates 1948: First release of ISIC 1972: revision of the custom classification 1976: work program to harmonize economic classifications 1980: European level: NACE 1990: development of a central product classification 2

Characteristics of the International system Harmonization International harmonization harmonization between classifications of the same type harmonization between classifications of different type Integration relations “origin-output” between activity and product classifications system of “elementary bricks” (building block) conceptual relations with other international classifications Central structure of the system 3

Types of Classifications Classifications are defined as: Reference Classifications Derived Classifications Related Classifications 4

Example: Activity classifications Reference classification ISIC Rev.4 Derived classification NACE Rev.2 Related classifications NAICS, ANZSIC ISIC Rev.4 NAICS NACE Rev.2 ANZSIC National Versions 5

Network of economic classifications Foreign trade Activities Products World ISIC rev. 4 HS BEC NACE rev. 2 CPC ver. 2.1 NC CPA ver. 2.1 CC from CPC prov. COFOG COICOP EBOPS SITC rev. 3 COPNI BOP EU ECOICOP NST 2000 PRODCOM CPV

Links between classifications items From A [source] to B [target]: One-to-one Results can be transformed in both ways 4403.2 3110 Many-to-one Results of A can be compared in terms of B 4510.1 4510.2 4510.3 3120 One-to-many Results of B can be compared in terms of A Many-to-many Results can’t be compared in any direction 1525 1528 1730 4655.0 7

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