Transcript ISIC Rev.4 - Main concepts and application rules

CPC Ver.2
History, scope and
purpose
United Nations Statistics Division
Purpose
 Established in first version of CPC in
1989:
 Provide a framework for the international
comparison of statistics, dealing with
goods, services and assets
 Serve as a guide for developing or
revising existing classification schemes
of products in order to make them
compatible with international standards
Purpose
 CPC was developed primarily to:
 enhance harmonization among various
fields of economic and related statistics
 strengthen the role of national accounts
as an instrument for the coordination of
economic statistics
 CPC provides a basis for recompiling
basic statistics from their original
classifications into a standard
classification for analytical use
Use
 CPC is used in many statistical
programmes
 Can be applied to all that make reference
to “products” and group data accordingly
 Obvious applications for all kinds of
economic statistics
 CPC can serve as the standard
classification for products, from which
specialized subsets are derived
Use
 CPC is used also for nonstatistical purposes
 Administrative and legal
applications
 E.g. requirements for specific
services provided
History
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History
 CPC was originally released in
1989 as the “Provisional CPC”
 Purpose was to provide a
framework that can be tested by
countries and then be further
refined
 Revisions have been undertaken
in 1997, 2002 and 2007
History
 Revisions of CPC have reviewed
concepts for defining and grouping
products
 In particular services
 Sectoral review has dominated the
revision processes
 Size of the classification has not
changed significantly
History
 Number of categories in CPC versions:
Section
Division
Group
Class
Subclass
Prov. CPC
10
69
293
1050
1811
CPC Ver.1.0
10
71
307
1167
2101
CPC Ver.1.1
10
70
305
1167
2098
CPC Ver.2
10
71
324
1265
2738
Scope
 The scope of CPC has seen a number
of changes in these revisions
 Changes are related to treatment of
assets
 Non-produced assets
 Intangible assets
 Constructions
Structure
 The CPC structure has largely remained
the same at higher levels
 Deviations are due to changes in scope
 Modifications at especially the lowest level
have occurred due to the introduction of
new products