NACE Rev. 2.1: European Economic Activity Classification

NACE Rev. 2.1 is the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community. It is the European version of the ISIC and is harmonized with related classifications like CPC, HS, and SITC. The dataset is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Classify business establishments by economic sector based on the NACE code hierarchy.
• Harmonize national economic statistics across EU member states using the standardized classification.
• Map economic activity data to related international trade classifications like HS or SITC.

Strengths

• Classification is harmonized with the international ISIC standard.
• Explicitly lists relations to other major classifications like CPC, HS, and SITC.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Geography

European Union