CPA 2.1: European Product Classification by Economic Activity

CPA 2.1 is the European version of the CPC product classification, aligning products directly with their economic origin. It replaced the 2008 CPA version on January 1, 2015, and maintains a hierarchical structure analogous to NACE. The dataset is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich.

Use Cases

• Harmonizing product data across European economic sectors based on the classification structure.
• Mapping trade flows using the CPA's relationship to HS and SITC classifications.
• Analyzing industrial output by linking products to their economic activity of origin.
• Standardizing product statistics for integration with NACE-based activity data.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized European classification linked to major international systems like ISIC, CPC, and HS.
• Has a defined version history, with CPA 2.1 replacing the 2008 version on a specific date (2015-01-01).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Time Range

Version CPA 2.1 effective from 2015-01-01.

Geography

European Community