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NACE revision 1.1 -- final draft 2002

Statistical Classification of Economic Activities

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A classification of economic activities is designed to categorize data that can be related only to the unit of activity, for example an individual plant or group of plants comprising an economic entity such as an enterprise.

Classification systems have to be revised from time to time to reflect changes in technology and industrial structures. The following tables represent the final draft of NACE revision 1.1 published in 2002.

The NACE classification should be harmonized with ISIC Rev. 3. It was soon evident that large parts of ISIC Rev. 3 were insufficiently disaggregated to represent and monitor European national economies.

For the NACE the EUROSTAT adopted the following main features of the classification:

  1. the lowest level in NACE Rev. 1 comprises 4 digits;
  2. the first level of ISIC Rev. 3 (sections) is embodied in NACE Rev. 1 as an alphabetical code, A to Q, and is further disaggregated in some areas into subsections indicated by 2-digit alphabetical codes;
  3. the second level of ISIC Rev. 3 (divisions) is included in NACE Rev. 1 without any changes;
  4. the third and fourth levels (groups and classes) are subdivided to reflect European needs, each 3- or 4-digit item in NACE Rev. 1 being capable of being aggregated to the 3- or 4-digit levels of ISIC Rev. 3 from which they have been derived.

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