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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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Statistics
Chapter 5: Classification of Industries and
Products and Size of SUTs
EN/SUT/2014/Pres/02
Ramesh KOLLI
Senior Advisor on National Accounts,
African Centre for Statistics
At Expert Group Meeting on Supply and Use Tables
2-6 June 2014, Port Louis, Mauritius
Le Méridien Ile Maurice
Outline of Presentation
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General
Classification of Industries for the SUT
Classification of Products for the SUT
Final consumption expenditure Vectors
Import and Export Vectors
Concluding remarks
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1.General
• The size of SUT refers the number of Industries and Products .
• For 2011 ICP, the guiding factor for determining the size and
classification of SUT is that the SUT product classification should match
with ICP basic heading classifications.
• In most countries, the primary data available from different sources are
classified:– Central Product classification (CPC) for products
– International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) for industries
– Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) & Harmonized
Commodity description and coding system (HS) for foreign trade
– COICOP/COFOG/COPNI for final consumption expenditure
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2. Classification of Industries for SUT
• The SNA recommends the use of ISIC for the classification of
Industries for SUT.
• The latest version of ISIC rev 4 contains 21 sections, 88 divisions,
238 groups & 419 classes
• ICP does not make any recommendation on the size of industries,
as the requirement of ICP are GDP expenditure in terms of
product and purposes.
• For ICP, product classification is more important than industrial
classification.
• Countries may choose industry classification for SUT on the basis
of their importance to the economy.
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3. Classification of Products for SUT
• The SNA recommends the use of Central Product Classification
(CPC, the latest version is CPC 2.0) for classifying products.
• For ICP, the ideal product level to be included in the SUT is the ICP
basic headings.
• ICP level of product classification in the SUT will provide weight
to the price collected and for the compilation of real GDP
expenditure.
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4. Final Consumption Expenditure Vector
• The recording of the expenditure of the household, NPISH, and
government sectors follows the classification of final expenditure
by purpose. namely (COICOP), (COPNI) & (COFOG).
• The primary data available on consumption expenditures of
household , NPISH and government according to purpose need to
be reclassified to the product classification chosen for SUT.
• The concordance table between COICOP, COFOG & COPNI has to
be constructed.
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5.Import & Export Vector
• The International classification for recording imports and exports
are the Standard International Trade classification SITC & HS.
• The concordance table has to be established to transform the
data on Import and export in SITC/HS to the product included in
the SUT based on CPC classification.
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6. Concluding Remarks
• Countries may choose the size of SUT on the basis of the number
of factors that include:Importance of industries and products for the economy;
Availability of primary data;
Current national accounts compilation practices, especially
for production GDP;
• For ICP 2011, the guiding factor to meet the ICP requirement for
countries is to construct SUT at basic heading level
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Thank you
Ramesh KOLLI
Senior Advisor on National Accounts, African Centre for Statistics
At Expert Group Meeting on Supply and Use Tables
2-6 June 2014, Port Louis, Mauritius, Le Méridien Ile Maurice