This Classification Memorandum contains classification units for a more detailed specification of authorities' data collection. Classification may also include criteria which specify the use of the classification. Some classification entities are official and specifically confirmed or to be confirmed, complemented for authorities' data collection by eg group classifications.
Official classifications include eg classification entities S (sectors) and G (industries). The Classification Memorandum is not a separate data collection unit, but rather a tool for defining data collection. All classifications are not yet targeted to any data collection units. Subclassifications have been added to several classifications for defining data collection as unambiguously as possible.
The final chapter of the Memorandum contains completion instructions. This chapter will be updated with instructions for filling in the data collection units. These instructions are not for classification, but rather instructions for interpreting them.
(The Classification Memorandum
1.1.2010.xls)
Latest updates:
12.8.2010 The updated Classification Memorandum has been
published (A, B, C, D1, S G, H, J, K, O, P, and U)
25.3.2010 The updated Classification Memorandum has been published
(M and O)
17.12.2008 The updated Classification Memorandum has been
published. It is valid from 1.1.2009.
9.1.2008 Maturity classification, new maturity classes added
9.1.2008 Currency and country classifications, Cyprus and Malta new
Monetary Union members
12.11.2007 User purpose classification, class descriptions
added
13.3.2007 Country classification, classification
revised
10.1.2007 Currency classification,
classification revised
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