Final draft of the Central Product Classification, Version 2

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Final draft of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4

Compared with CPC Version 1.1, about 200 new items have been added to CPC Version 2 in the areas of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food.

The final draft of the ISIC, Revision 4, presented to the thirty seventh session of the Statistical Commission makes considerable changes to the structure of the ISIC, Revision 3.1, with the relevance of the Classification clearly improved.

Of these, 328 are following a programme at ISCED level 2 96 individuals are attempting to improve their educational status by following a programme at ISCED level 6 or 7.

The Commission may wish to suggest ways to support the implementation of the new classification by a large number of countries.

If a mixture is classified in Category 1, and the concentration of the ingredients of the mixture that are in Category 1 is increased, the new mixture should be classified in Category 1 without additional testing.

It recommends SITC, Rev.4, for use in the analysis of international merchandise trade by interested countries and international organizations.

True, India s government must now consider growing threats to the country s investment grade credit rating.

(g) The development of alternative groupings for the classification, based primarily on the goods or services produced, independently of skill level.

Moreover, the consultations provided the opportunity to determine their expectations of this CPC revision.

It included questions on the purpose and scope of the CPC, as well as different options for the CPC aggregation structure.

All cultures impose on their members ideas about who they are, how they came to be, and where they fit in socially.

The structure of the final draft of the ISIC, Revision 4, is also available to the Statistical Commission as a background document.

The review of replies to this questionnaire led to the development of the revised CPC structure, which was prepared for distribution in 2005.

(f) Survey methods and questions for identifying status in employment categories and the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Rev.4.

The structure and contents of the new version of the CPC now reflect much better than ever before the reality and needs of agricultural statistics.

The Commission is requested to take note of the work of the Task Force, in particular its endorsement of the provisional draft of the fourth revision of the Standard International Trade Classification.

We might also be looking at a potential ratings downgrade for US government debt implying the prospect of even higher interest rates.

The suggested changes would result in classifications with much better comparable building blocks, allowing for data conversion at different levels of the classification while still maintaining different structures.

Countries are requested to report relevant data in accordance with ISIC, Rev.3, or, alternatively, with ISIC, Rev.2.

The proposed ISIC Rev.4 structure has 21 top level sections instead of the 17 contained in ISIC Rev.3.

More important, the underlying problem a perverse incentive system whereby they are paid by the firms that they rate has yet to change.

The submission of the final structure for the proposed International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, to the present session of the Statistical Commission concludes a programme of work that has spanned several years.

The Statistical Commission mandated a broad scope for revision, covering conceptual issues, broad structure issues, detailed structure and boundary issues and detailed explanatory notes of the classification.

The proposed structure of the ISIC, Revision 4, reflects the organization of production better than its predecessor and is better suited to describe the current economic reality.

The revision process was started by identifying general conceptual issues, defining the scope of the revision, elaborating and reviewing explicit proposals and finally updating the detailed structure and explanatory notes of the classification.

Both databases will continue to treat the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) as a primary commodity classification for data collection and data processing purposes.

Ecologically, Lake Tana is home to rare and endangered bird species such as the black crowned crane and also hosts several migratory birds.

The ISCO categories Clerks' and Service workers and shop and market sales workers' are very much female dominated.

Within the current broad structure of the Central Product Classification, ICT, information, health and other services products have been elaborated.

In mathematics, a semigroupoid is a partial algebra that satisfies the axioms for a small category, except possibly for the requirement that there be an identity at each object.

The second step should result in a comprehensive review and revision of the ISIC, to be submitted in 2006 to the Statistical Commission with an expected publication date of 2007.

The final draft of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, was considered by the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications at its meeting in June 2005.

There was a long standing request for the CPC structure to be more responsive to the needs of agricultural statistics, requiring more detail in this area.

For example, the roughly decennial revisions of the World Health Organization s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) partly reflect advances in scientific understanding of diseases and injuries.

The second step should result in a comprehensive review and revision of the CPC, to be submitted in 2006 to the Statistical Commission, with an expected publication date of 2007.

It is therefore important that, in order to develop a more common database of NTBs that could be utilized by all interested parties, a relevant classification system be established reflecting today's empirical evidence.

Having examined the presently available data given in table 18 below, one may infer the percentage of the sick people among the employees by the kind of disease and in accordance with the applicable International Classification of Diseases.

The responses to the questionnaire were subsequently reviewed by the Technical Subgroup and resulted in a revised top level draft structure of the classification, which was presented to the Commission in March 2004.

Work on the high level aggregation structures of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, suitable for National Accounts purposes, was still in progress, with a proposal being considered at the time of the writing of the present report.

UNIDO has assumed responsibility for the collection of annual general industrial statistics pertaining to the mining, manufacturing and electricity, gas and water industries at the 3 and 4 digit levels of ISIC.

Among other measures in this area would be stepped up monitoring of the impacts of chemicals on health and the environment, harmonized risk assessments, efforts to implement the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), and the development and publication of national pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs).

The Technical Subgroup prepared a proposal for the work programme for the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4, and the Central Product Classification, Version 2, in a multistage process.