detailed explanation for each SIC code - Biffa

UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007 – SIC(2007)
Rules for classifying statistical units
services in NACE are only provided by government organisations or non-profit institutions
serving households, mostly in the field of education, health, social work, etc.
24. NACE includes categories for the undifferentiated production of goods and services by
households for their own use. These categories may refer, however, to only a portion of
households’ economic activities, as clearly identifiable household activities are classified in
other parts of NACE.
Statistical units
Definitions of statistical units
25. In order to draw a complete statistical picture of the economy, a wide range of information
is required, and the organizational level at which it is feasible to collect the information
varies according to the type of data. For example, profits data for a company may be
available from only one geographically central location referring to several different
locations, whereas product sales data may be available referring to each of the separate
locations. To observe and analyse the data satisfactorily, it is therefore necessary to define a
system of statistical units. These form the reference building blocks in respect of which data
can be collected and classified according to NACE.
26. Different types of statistical units meet different needs, but each unit is a specific entity,
which is defined in such a way that it can be recognised and identified and not confused
with any other unit. It may be an identifiable legal or physical entity or, as for example in
the case of the unit of homogeneous production, a statistical construct.
27. The following are the statistical units that are described in the Council Regulation on
statistical units 1 :
a. the enterprise group
b. the enterprise
c. the kind-of-activity unit (KAU)
d. the local unit
e. the local kind-of-activity unit (local KAU)
f. the institutional unit
g. the unit of homogeneous production (UHP)
h. the local unit of homogeneous production (local UHP)
The relationship between the different types of statistical units is illustrated in the following
table:
One or more locations A single location
One or more activities Enterprise Institutional unit Local unit
One single activity KAU
Local KAU
UHP
Local UHP
1 Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of
the production system in the Community (OJ No L 76, 30.3.1993, p 1).
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