About the Central Product Classification #CPC
The Central Product Classification (CPC) constitutes a complete product classification covering goods and services. It serves as an international standard for assembling and tabulating all kinds of data requiring product detail, including industrial production, national accounts, service industries, domestic and foreign commodity trade, international trade in services, balance of payments, consumption and price statistics.
Statistics based on CPC Version 2.1 are useful in studying transactions in goods and services in detail and as a basis for developing lists of goods and services for specific purposes, such as price statistics surveys. It has broad acceptance as an international standard and facilitates the maintenance of constant categories of products.
The CPC was originally provided as a 618 page pdf document (in English only) here: Central Product Classification (CPC) Version 2.1 (it is not available in print, nor are translations provided).
With the support of Wikinetix a #pdf2wiki conversion was performed during the winter of 2019.
Besides introducing the #CPC hashtags, the wiki version added these usability improvements:
- in order to support multi-lingual debate via social media and the easy retrieval of various contributions regarding a product or service #tagcoding hashtags were added for all sections, divisions, groups, classes, and sub-classes.
- all references to ISIC v4 classes were replaced with direct links to the ISIC class’ wiki pages.
- the ISIC class pages (and some other pages) got tagged with #cpc-codes and terms from the CPC classification such that the alphabetic #tagcoding tags for goods, services and bads (a Hashtag cloud) supports the discovery of #cpc-codes and the ISIC class that produces the service or product.
These improvements are also reflected in this e-book.
The sections of the Central Product Classification are:
- #cpc0 - Agriculture, forestry and fishery products
- #cpc1 - Ores and minerals; electricity, gas and water
- #cpc2 - Food products, beverages and tobacco; textiles, apparel and leather products
- #cpc3 - Other transportable goods, except metal products, machinery and equipment
- #cpc4 - Metal products, machinery and equipment
- #cpc5 - Constructions and construction services
- #cpc6 - Distributive trade services; accommodation, food and beverage serving services; transport services; and electricity, gas and water distribution services
- #cpc7 - Financial and related services; real estate services; and rental and leasing services
- #cpc8 - Business and production services
- #cpc9 - Community, social and personal services
The descriptions of sub-classes, classes, groups and divisions are included for Division 92 - Education, but for the other sections, divisions, groups, classes and sub-classes we refer to their online description or to Hashtags for products and services.