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INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS
Introductory notes
    Classifications present the system of expressions in standard form, used for presenting certain phenomena. They separate general data into categories that are, whenever it is possible, homogeneous in the sense of those characteristics that are the subject of a certain survey. Such categories are the most frequently shown in hierarchical structure, each being given a specific letter or numeric mark.

Classifications are divided into referent and derived.

Referent classifications are those that are globally accepted and officially adopted by the United Nations or similar international institutions (IMF, UNESCO, ILO). Examples of such classifications are ISIC (Classification of Activities), CPC (Classification of Products), HS (Foreign Trade Classification), ISCO (Classification of Occupations), etc.

Derived classifications are based on and derived from the referent ones, such as NACE (Classification of Activities in EU), CPA (Classification of Products in EU), ISCO-88 (Classification of Occupations in EU), etc.
On the basis of referent and derived classifications, national classifications are established, being completely or to a certain level harmonized with the basic ones.

Names (full and short) of the classifications from the presented scheme

ISIC rev. 3.1 – International Standard Industrial Classification

COFOG – Classification Of the Functions Of Government

COICOP – Classification Of Individual Consumption by Purpose

COICOP-HICP – COICOP - COICOP adapted total needs of Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices

COICOP-HBS – COICOP adapted total needs of Household Budget Survey

NACE rev. 1.1 – Nomenclature générale des Activités économiques dans les Communautés Européennes

CPC vers. 1.1– Central Product Classification

CPA 2002– Classification of Products by Activity

COPNI – Classification Of the Purposes of Non-profit Institutions

HS – Harmonized Commodity description and coding System

CN – Combined Nomenclature

SITC rev. 3 – Standard International Trade Classification

CC – Classification of Types of Constructions

NST 2000 – Standard Goods Classification for Transport Statistics

PRODCOM – List of PRODucts of the Europian COMmunity

More detailed information, structures and mutual relations of international classifications are available on the websites of EUROSTAT and UN.
Eurostat: http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon
UN: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry
 
 
International Standard Industrial Classification Classification Of the Functions Of Government Classification Of Individual Consumption by Purpose Central Product Classification Harmonized Commodity description and coding System Standard International Trade Classification Classification Of the Purposes of Non-profit Institutions COICOP adapted total needs of Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices COICOP adapted total needs of Household Budget Survey</font> Nomenclature générale des Activités économiques dans les Communautés Européennes Classification of Products by Activity Classification of Types of Constructions Standard Goods Classification for Transport Statistics Combined Nomenclature List of PRODucts of the Europian COMmunity