Palestinian Industrial Classification for Economical Activities

Palestinian Industrial Classification for Economical Activities

Classification Name in Arabic: التصنيف الصناعي الفلسطيني للأنشطة الاقتصادية (الحد الخامس) حسب التصنيف الصناعي الدولي الموحد لجميع الأنشطة الاقتصادية (التنقيح الرابع)

Classification Name in English: Palestinian Industrial Classification for Economical Activities

Abbreviation of Classification Name: ISIC 4

Edition and Publishing Year: first version (third edition), January 2014

A glimpse on Classification:

International classifications have emerged, especially the first International Standard Industrial Classification in 1857 and which was approved by the International Statistical Conference in Vienna, a ranking of production and ensure the 8 groups and 34 varieties, but it was not a comprehensive has not been applied, followed by other classification at the end of the nineteenth century, then rolled international classifications in the twentieth century and developed by official international organizations such as the International Statistical Institute and the League of Nations and the Organization of the United Nations, where the Statistical Commission of the United Nations and developed with the advice and help member governments International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, which was adopted the original version of this category by The United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1948, which recommends the adoption of this classification to be national standards and a tool for comparison at the international level.

Statistical Committee carried out a review and revision of this system in 1956. In 1958, the first revision afternoon, then was reviewed in 1965 and released the second revision in 1968, then was the second review of the revision in 1979 and released the third revision in 1989, and finally, the Statistical Committee at its thirty-seventh in 2006, approving the revision of the fourth as the accepted standard of Member States and recommends its adoption as soon as possible with the amendments that may be necessary to meet national needs and without prejudice to the framework of classification that are reported amendments (if any) according to the type of economic activity for the purposes of International comparisons.

I've been to adopt ISIC fourth revision as a basis for this category in line with the national economy, and is used for a wide range of statistics that need to be detailed data disaggregated by type of activity, such as statistics on production and national income and other economic statistics demographic, social necessary and statistics to analyze the Manpower Employment species Analysis of other social and description. Accordingly, the industrial word is not limited to industrial uses, but for all economic activities.

structural classification:

The Palestinian Industrial Classification of economic activities consists of a coherent and consistent classification structure of economic activities on the basis of a set of internationally adopted concepts and definitions, principles and classification rules , and provides a comprehensive framework to compile economic data in a designed format for purposes of economic analysis.

This new version of the Palestinian industrial classification of economic activities based on the fourth revision of the International Standard of Industrial Classification reinforces the importance of taxonomy to provide a better picture of the structure of the global economy at the moment, with the recognition of new arisen industries in the past twenty years and to facilitate international comparison through increased compatibility with existing regional classifications.

Uses of the Classification:

In practice, this classification is used to classify statistical units such as enterprises or projects according to economic activity in which they mainly operate to provide a steady flow of indispensable data to monitor, analyze and evaluate the performance of the economy within the passage of time, and in addition to the initial application of classification in the field of statistics and subsequent economic analysis , to provide data on narrowly defined economic activities ( and also referred to as industries), and increasing uses of the International Industrial Classification for administrative purposes such as collecting taxes and issuing business licenses ... etc.

Name of the International Corresponding Standard Classification (if any): International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities Rev. 4

Link of the International Corresponding Standard Classification (if any) on the Internet:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/isic-4.asp

Date of commencement of using current edition:: 1/1/2014

Previous local editions of the classification:

- Palestinian Industrial Classification for Economical Activities (five digits) according to International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (fourth revision), the first version, April 2011.

- International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.3, 1997

Previous International versions of standards of classification:

International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.3

Link on the Internet:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=2