Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community

The Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (French Nomenclature statistique the Activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne ), usually referred to simply as NACE, is a system for classification of activities, the part of the European Union, based on the ISIC Rev. 3 (International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities) which was designed United Nations. You also corresponds to the Swiss Nomenclature Générale Classification of Economic Activities ( NOGA).

They are used to categorize data under the common statistics by Eurostat, as well as the national official statistics, and refers to statistical units, ie a single operation or a group of sites that an economic entity that is a company or an industry form.

• 3.1 European level
• 3.2 International level

Construction

A NACE class is relevant for the detailed assignment of units to sectors and installations covered by each class units perform as much as possible the same activities from. NACE Rev. 2 is divided into (in brackets Rev 1.1):

• Sections 21 (formerly 17) - letter code
• 88 departments (formerly 62) - two-digit code number
• 272 groups (formerly 224) - three-digit code number
• 615 classes (formerly 514) - four-digit code number

Table: NACE Rev.2 sections and NACE Rev. 1.1

The following table represents the current final draft of the relevant Statistical Department of the European Union for the NACE Revison 2 based on the ISIV Rev. 3, in comparison to the previous version Rev. 1.1

Example of a NACE classification

So a NACE class is given a four digit code and a statistical unit is allocated to the relevant classes for them in their activities. For example, would be laying a reference work on the Internet:

History

The development of a common European classification dates back to the 1960s.

The Nomenclature of the Industries établies dans les Communauté Européenne ( Nomenclature of manufacturing industry in the European Communities, NICE) was developed from 1961 to 1963, it was based initially on a three-digit code, and was later subdivided fine. Your main groups were extractive, energy, the manufacturing / production of goods, and building / construction. Nomenclature du Commerce dans la CEE (nomenclature of trade in the EEC, NCE) created for the branches of the trade - 1965 was. In 1967 to a nomenclature for services and one for agriculture.

Communauté Européenne ( General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities within the European Communities ) Nomenclature générale des Activités économiques dans les united - By 1970, these systems were to NACE. She had two disadvantages, firstly it was not Community law, data were collected in the national statistics within traditional systems, and on the other hand, it was not developed in a recognized international framework.

To make an international comparison, it was decided by the International Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities ( ISIC) Rev. 3 to take over, which was adopted in February 1989 by the Statistical Commission of the United Nations. The reason for the European version was the insufficient breakdown of indicators for monitoring and display of European economies. It was also important to make a proper revision of such a classification system as well as to reflect the changes of technology and business structures. Nevertheless, it was ensured to maintain compatibility between NACE and ISIC in collaboration with the Statistical Office of the United Nations. The NACE Rev. 1 was established by Regulation No 3037/ 90 of 9 October 1990.

2002, some minor adjustments, the NACE Rev. 1.1, made ​​it contained a new work, update activities (eg call centers) and an adaptation to the changes in the economy and technology of the late 20th century. It was published in Regulation (EC ) Commission Decision of 19 December 2001 No. 29/2002.

At the same time, a revision of NACE was started (Regulation (EC ) No 1893/2006, December 2006, provisions for the implementation of NACE Rev. 2 and the coordinated transition ). Between 2000 and 2007, a major revision of international and European classifications of economic activities was performed (operation 2007), which are fed into the revision. They also implemented the current ISIC Rev. 4

NACE Rev. 2 is a compromise between the level of detail as is required by " the main users ", and the workload of the statistical offices. NACE Rev. 2 is, in principle, from 1 January 2008 for statistics, which refer to economic activities, reference is made to apply (Article 8 NACE Regulation provides details on implementation ).

Related classifications

The central concern of NACE Rev. 2 is the comparison with other statistical nomenclatures that are used within the EC and in dealing with the international level.

European level

International level

In addition to the EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland also use a NACE -compliant statistics, as well as about ten other countries outside the EU and the candidate countries such as Croatia and Turkey. Over 150 countries in the world use of economic activities, which are based either on the NACE or ISIC.

Availability

NACE is, inter alia, on the online classification server " RAMON " EU agency Eurostat available.

National use

• The customary in German official statistics classification of economic activities WZ 2003 is based on NACE Rev. 1.1. The current 2008 edition, also known as WZ 2008, is based on NACE Rev. 2.
• ÖNACE is the name of the common classification system in Austria. In January 2008, the previous system was (NACE 2003, based on NACE Rev. 1.1) revised. The current classification is called ÖNACE 2008 and is based on NACE Rev.2.
• Swiss takeover is the classification NOGA ( Nomenclature Générale Classification of Economic Activities ) is on. The NOGA system is supervised by the Federal Statistical Office and applied by this in many of our own surveys.