1. Chapter 5: Classification of Industries and Products and Size of SUTs
EN/SUT/2014/Pres/02
Ramesh KOLLI
Senior Advisor on National Accounts,
African Centre for Statistics
At Expert Group Meeting on Supply and Use Tables
2-6 June 2014, Port Louis, Mauritius
Le Méridien Ile Maurice

2. Outline of Presentation
General
Classification of Industries for the SUT
Classification of Products for the SUT
Final consumption expenditure Vectors
Import and Export Vectors
Concluding remarks

3. 1.General
The size of SUT refers the number of Industries and Products .
For 2011 ICP, the guiding factor for determining the size and classification of SUT is that the SUT product classification should match with ICP basic heading classifications.
In most countries, the primary data available from different sources are classified:-
Central Product classification (CPC) for products
International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) for industries
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) & Harmonized Commodity description and coding system (HS) for foreign trade
COICOP/COFOG/COPNI for final consumption expenditure

4. 2. Classification of Industries for SUT
The SNA recommends the use of ISIC for the classification of Industries for SUT.
The latest version of ISIC rev 4 contains 21 sections, 88 divisions, 238 groups & 419 classes
ICP does not make any recommendation on the size of industries, as the requirement of ICP are GDP expenditure in terms of product and purposes.
For ICP, product classification is more important than industrial classification.
Countries may choose industry classification for SUT on the basis of their importance to the economy.

5. 3. Classification of Products for SUT
The SNA recommends the use of Central Product Classification (CPC, the latest version is CPC 2.0) for classifying products.
For ICP, the ideal product level to be included in the SUT is the ICP basic headings.
ICP level of product classification in the SUT will provide weight to the price collected and for the compilation of real GDP expenditure.

6. 4. Final Consumption Expenditure Vector
The recording of the expenditure of the household, NPISH, and government sectors follows the classification of final expenditure by purpose. namely (COICOP), (COPNI) & (COFOG).
The primary data available on consumption expenditures of household , NPISH and government according to purpose need to be reclassified to the product classification chosen for SUT.
The concordance table between COICOP, COFOG & COPNI has to be constructed.

7. 5.Import & Export Vector
The International classification for recording imports and exports are the Standard International Trade classification SITC & HS.
The concordance table has to be established to transform the data on Import and export in SITC/HS to the product included in the SUT based on CPC classification.

8. 6. Concluding Remarks
Countries may choose the size of SUT on the basis of the number of factors that include:-
Importance of industries and products for the economy;
Availability of primary data;
Current national accounts compilation practices, especially for production GDP;
For ICP 2011, the guiding factor to meet the ICP requirement for countries is to construct SUT at basic heading level

9. Thank you
Ramesh KOLLI
Senior Advisor on National Accounts, African Centre for Statistics
At Expert Group Meeting on Supply and Use Tables
2-6 June 2014, Port Louis, Mauritius, Le Méridien Ile Maurice