ÖNACE 2008: Austrian Classification of Economic Activities

ÖNACE 2008 is the Austrian national adaptation of the European NACE classification for economic activities. It introduces an extra hierarchical level of national subclasses to better reflect the structure of the Austrian economy, while remaining identical to NACE up to the 4-digit level. The dataset is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich.

Use Cases

• Classify business entities by economic sector based on the hierarchical ÖNACE codes.
• Harmonize Austrian economic data with European NACE statistics using the shared 4-digit level.
• Analyze the structure of the Austrian economy using the detailed national subclasses.
• Map economic activities to related international classifications like ISIC, CPC, or HS.

Strengths

• Provides a direct link to the European NACE standard, ensuring cross-border comparability.
• Includes an additional hierarchical level of national subclasses for granular Austrian-specific analysis.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is superseded by ÖNACE 2025, which replaced it on January 1, 2025.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Geography

Austria