International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)
ISIC is the abbreviation of International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities. In this booklet the tags are defined on the basis of the classes in revision 4. The full structure and definition of each of the over 400 classes is at the website of the United Nations Statistics Division. The below table lists the sections that group the classes.
The ISIC section, division and class definitions have also been added to the pages defining the isicWW hashtags which are a part of the Ens wiki.
The third annex lists the classes for each of the ISIC sections, with for each section a link to its complete description in the Ens wiki. The Ens wiki also includes the full definition of each ISIC class and links to the corresponding product classes and product groups of the Central Product Classification.
| #x1 tag | ISIC Revision 4 Section |
|---|---|
| #a1 | A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing |
| #b1 | B - Mining and quarrying |
| #c1 | C - Manufacturing |
| #d1 | D - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply |
| #e1 | E - Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities |
| #f1 | F - Construction |
| #g1 | G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles |
| #h1 | H - Transportation and storage |
| #i1 | I - Accommodation and food service activities |
| #j1 | J - Information and communication |
| #k1 | K - Financial and insurance activities |
| #l1 | L - Real estate activities |
| #m1 | M - Professional, scientific and technical activities |
| #n1 | N - Administrative and support service activities |
| #o1 | O - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security |
| #p1 | P - Education |
| #q1 | Q - Human health and social work activities |
| #r1 | R - Arts, entertainment and recreation |
| #s1 | S - Other service activities |
| #t1 | T - Activities of households |
| #u1 | U - Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies |
Tools for looking up isic hashtags
For the isic hashtags two tools are provided: tabbed tables in several languages and a term cloud in English.
The tagcoding pivot page of the Actor Atlas lists the ISIC divisions and classes per division in a tabbed table.
The Actor Atlas also has a English tagcloud for the economic activities.
Agricultural machinery occurs in these four ISIC classes:
The country #tagcoding pages list the hashtags for each economic activity, for instance for the section education in Germany it is #a1DE.
ISIC A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing
The ISIC section A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing contains the classes in the below table.
| isic tag | Class name |
|---|---|
| #isic0111 | Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds |
| #isic0112 | Growing of rice |
| #isic0113 | Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers |
| #isic0114 | Growing of sugar cane |
| #isic0115 | Growing of tobacco |
| #isic0116 | Growing of fibre crops |
| #isic0119 | Growing of other non-perennial crops |
| #isic0121 | Growing of grapes |
| #isic0122 | Growing of tropical and subtropical fruits |
| #isic0123 | Growing of citrus fruits |
| #isic0124 | Growing of pome fruits and stone fruits |
| #isic0125 | Growing of other tree and bush fruits and nuts |
| #isic0126 | Growing of oleaginous fruits |
| #isic0127 | Growing of beverage crops |
| #isic0128 | Growing of spices, aromatic, drug and pharmaceutical crops |
| #isic0129 | Growing of other perennial crops |
| #isic0130 | Plant propagation |
| #isic0141 | Raising of cattle and buffaloes |
| #isic0142 | Raising of horses and other equines |
| #isic0143 | Raising of camels and camelids |
| #isic0144 | Raising of sheep and goats |
| #isic0145 | Raising of swine/pigs |
| #isic0146 | Raising of poultry |
| #isic0149 | Raising of other animals |
| #isic0150 | Mixed farming |
| #isic0161 | Support activities for crop production |
| #isic0162 | Support activities for animal production |
| #isic0163 | Post-harvest crop activities |
| #isic0164 | Seed processing for propagation |
| #isic0170 | Hunting, trapping and related service activities |
| #isic0210 | Silviculture and other forestry activities |
| #isic0220 | Logging |
| #isic0230 | Gathering of non-wood forest products |
| #isic0240 | Support services to forestry |
| #isic0311 | Marine fishing |
| #isic0312 | Freshwater fishing |
| #isic0321 | Marineaquaculture |
| #isic0322 | Freshwater aquaculture |
The #isic tag for an economic activity in a country is constructed by adding the ISO country code to the roottag in the previous table. For instance for Freshwater fishing in each of the countries below:
| Country | ISO code | isic tag |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | CA | #isic0312CA |
| The Gambia | GM | #isic0312GM |
| Ghana | GH | #isic0312GH |
| India | IN | #isic0312IN |
| Ireland | IE | #isic0312IE |
| Jordan | JO | #isic0312JO |
| Kenya | KE | #isic0312KE |
| Liberia | LR | #isic0312LR |
| Malawi | MW | #isic0312MW |
| Mauritius | MU | #isic0312MU |
| New Zealand | NZ | #isic0312NZ |
| Nigeria | NG | #isic0312NG |
| Pakistan | PK | #isic0312PK |
| Papua New Guinea | PG | #isic0312PG |
| Philippines | PH | #isic0312PH |
| Rwanda | RW | #isic0312RW |
| Sierra Leone | SL | #isic0312SL |
| South Africa | ZA | #isic0312ZA |
| South Sudan | SS | #isic0312SS |
| Sudan | SD | #isic0312SD |
| Swaziland | SZ | #isic0312SZ |
| Tanzania | TZ | #isic0312TZ |
| Uganda | UG | #isic0312UG |
| United Kingdom | GB | #isic0312GB |
| United States of America | US | #isic0312US |
| Zimbabwe | ZW | #isic0312ZW |