Central Product Classification CPC Version 1

[Pages:841]DRAFT ESA/STAT/SER.M/77/Ver.1.1

Central Product Classification CPC Version 1.1

(Updated: 21.02.2002)

Version submitted to the United Nations Statistical Commission, 5-8 March 2002

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PREFACE...............................................................................................................

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Part One

INTRODUCTION TO THE CENTRAL PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND REVISION.................................... 1 - 15

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A. Historical Background .............................................................. 1 - 10

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B. The 2002 update to Version 1.0 ................................................. 11 - 15

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UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF THE CLASSIFICATION....................... 16 - 34

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A. Purpose and nature of the classification ..................................... 16 - 20

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B. Principles used in constructing CPC ........................................... 21 - 27

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C. Goods and services in CPC ........................................................ 28 - 29

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D. Goods and services in SNA ........................................................ 30 - 31

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E. Coding system of the classification ............................................. 32 - 34

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III. APPLICATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION .......................................... 35 - 40

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A. Use of different levels of the classification ....................................

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B. Using CPC in establishing national classifications of products......... 36 ? 39

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C. Support for users of CPC........................................................

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IV. RELATIONSHIP OF CPC TO OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS ................... 41 - 60

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A. Relationship to ISIC .................................................................. 41 - 42

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B. Relationship to HS .................................................................. 43 - 49

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C. Relationship to SITC............................................................... 50 - 51

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D. Relationship to other classifications and standards........................ 52 - 60

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INTERPRETATION OF THE CPC SYSTEM....................................... 61 - 84

A. Rules of interpretation ............................................................... 61 - 65

B. Explanatory notes..................................................................... 66 - 68

C. Indexes to the classification....................................................... 69 - 70

D. Correspondence between revisions............................................ 71 - 73

E. Summary of main changes........................................................ 74 - 83

F. Future work ........................................................................... 84

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Part Two BROAD STRUCTURE: SECTIONS AND DIVISIONS

CPC Version 1.1: broad structure....................................................................... 29

Part Three DETAILED STRUCTURE AND CORRESPONDENCES OF CPC VERSION 1.0 SUBCLASSES

TO ISIC REV. 3.1, HS 2002, AND SITC REV. 3 CPC Version 1.1: detailed structure and correspondence ....................................... 35

Part Four EXPLANATORY NOTES FOR SECTIONS 5 THROUGH 9 CPC Version 1.1: explanatory notes ................................................................... 163

Part Five

ALTERNATE STRUCTURES

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ALTERNATIVE (MORE DETAILED) CLASSIFICATION FOR DIVISION 71......... 293

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LIST OF CONSTRUCTIONS...................................................................... 309

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Part Six

CORRESPONDENCE TABLES BETWEEN CPC VERSION 1.1 AND PREVIOUS VERSIONS

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CHANGES IN CPC VERSION 1.1, SECTIONS 0-4, FROM CPC VERSION 1.0:

LIST OF AFFECTED CODES....................................................................... 321

II.

CORRESPONDENCE OF CPC VERSION 1.0 TO CPC VERSION 1.1

Sections 5-9 (Limited to the changes between Versions 1.1 and 1.0) ................... 333

III. CORRESPONDENCE OF CPC VERSION 1.1 TO CPC VERSION 1.0 Sections 5-9 (Limited to the changes between Versions 1.1 and 1.0) ................... 345

IV. CORRESPONDENCE OF PROVISIONAL CPC TO CPC VERSION 1.1................ 357

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CORRESPONDENCE OF CPC VERSION 1.1 TO PROVISIONAL CPC ............... 491

Part Seven ENGLISH ALPHABETICAL INDEX FOR SECTIONS 5 TO 9 OF CPC VERSION 1.1 Alphabetical Index ............................................................................................ 631

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Preface

The Central Product Classification (CPC) constitutes a complete product classification covering goods and services. It was intended to serve as an international standard for assembling and tabulating all kinds of data requiring product detail including industrial production, national accounts, service industries, domestic and foreign commodity trade, international trade in services, balance of payments, consumption and price statistics. Other basic aims were to provide a framework for international comparison and promote harmonization of various types of statistics dealing with goods and services.

The first version of the Central Product Classification (CPC), the Provisional Central Product Classification was published in 1990. This version was superseded by the Central Product Classification Version 1.0, published in 1998. Then, particular attention was paid to the elaboration of the services part of the classification. This newly revised Central Product Classification (CPC) Version 1.1 represents a further update to the CPC. The development of this new version is intended to incorporate modifications due to recent changes in economies worldwide and sustained technological advancement in the period since the development of CPC Version 1.0. The continual revision of this classification is evidence of the commitment to systematize the improvement of the classification over time, keeping it current and making it more responsive to existing economic and technological reality, while maintaining conceptual consistency.

The primary purpose of the CPC Version 1.1 is to classify the goods and services that are the result of production in any economy. This production is accounted for in the national accounts of countries and can be measured and analyzed using the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA). CPC Version 1.1 is useful in studying transactions in goods and services in detail. It can also be used as a basis for developing lists of goods and services for specific purposes, such as price statistics surveys, etc, its primary advantage being that it has met the criteria for serving as an international standard. It has broad acceptance and can facilitate the maintenance of constant categories of products, both with regard to character and definition. It can therefore serve as a framework for international comparison.

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