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| 1 | Name of the current national classification (Original) | Classificação Nacional de Atividades Econômicas - CNAE |
| 2 | Name of the current national classification (English) | National Economic Activity Classification |
| 3 | Link to international classifications
(Give the name of the international standard classification the current classification is linked to or derived | International Standard Industrial Classification - Revision 3 and 3.1 |
| 4 | Please describe deviations from the international standard (if any)
(Use one or two examples, if general statement not possible) | 1st and 2nd levels (section and divisions): CNAE/Brazil is identical to ISIC 3
3rd and 4th levels (groups and classes) : CNAE/Brazil introduces more details, but even in this cases, with few exceptions, aggregation of CNAE/Brazil groups and classes recomposes ISIC groups and classes |
| 5 | Levels in the structure:
Is the structure identical to international standard or, if not, how does it differ?
Have additional levels been added or have changes been made, e.g. aggregations or additional breakdowns? | Thestructure is identical.
As explained in item 4, CNAE/Brazil structure introduces additional breakdowns for groups and classes |
| 6 | Number of items at the most detailed level of the current classification | CNAE (1995) - 564 classes
CNAE 1.0 (2003) - 581 classes |
| 7 | Do conversion tables exist between the national and the international classifications (if applicable)? | Yes (CNAE X ISIC 3 and CNAE1.0 X ISIC 3.1) |
| 8 | Name of institution / office responsible for the elaboration and maintenance of the classification | IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística |
| 9 | Contact address, phone number, e-mail or website for public information and inquiry | www.ibge.gov.br/concla (our web classification) cnae@ibge.gov.br (our classification hotline; users are usually enterprises that want to know their CNAE code to inform to Public Administration records) |
| 10 | Implementation date:
Please state the date of the first official adoption and the programme for the implementation of the various statistical applications. | CNAE/Brazil
Official publication: December 1994
Implementation in Statistical System
Economic annual surveys: since 1996
Economic monthly indicators: since 2000
Population Census 2000
Current social surveys: since 2002
Employment and unemployment indicators: since 2002 |
| 11 | Plans for revision or update of the current classification.
Please state if plans are made to revise the classification (e.g. due to national needs not reflected in the international classification). | Recent revision: 2003 ( following ISIC3.1 update and due to national needs for few adjustments in specific points)
Next revision: 2007 |
| 12 | Users of the classification for statistical purposes
Please state in which statistics (surveys etc.) this classification is used and if there are users outside of the Statistical Office. | IBGE
Central Enterprise Register
Mining, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade and services annual surveys annual surveys, monthly indicators for mining and manufacturing and for retail trade
Population Census 2000 and current social surveys and indicators like employment and unemployment statistics
All other surveys referred to economic activity Outside Statistical Office
All other statistical surveys
Statistics derived from administrative records |
| 13 | Statistical data collected according to the current classification
Please describe for which statistical surveys or indicators the classification is used and, if not used at the most detailed level, indicate the level or aggregates used. | IBGE Central Enterprise Register
Mining, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade and services annual surveys annual surveys
Economic monthly indicators
Population Census 2000, annual social survey, monthly employment survey |
| 14 | Statistical data published according to the current classification
Please describe for which statistical surveys or indicators the classification is used and, if not used at the most detailed level, indicate the level or aggregates used. | IBGE Central Enterprise Register : class level
Mining, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade and services annual surveys: class and group levels
Economic monthly indicators: division and group/class levels aggregations
Agriculture Census 1996: class levelPopulation Census 2000 and annual social survey: division and group/class levels aggregationEmployment and unemployment monthly indicators and statistics: division level aggregations |
| 15 | In which languages is the classification available? | In Portuguese |
| 16 | Is the classification available in electronic form? | Yes |
| 17 | Do the conversion key(s) exist in electronic form? | Yes |
| 18 | Have national explanatory notes and recommendations been elaborated? | Yes |
| 19 | Problems occurred during the period of use of the current classification
Please describe the kind of problems that have occurred (interpretation, methodology, etc.) | The experience of managing a national activity classification is recent in Brazil (less than a decade) and it has been a learn by doing task. ISIC documentation and the access to UN Classification hotline have been of great help in this process. |
| 20 | Users of the classification for non-statistical purposes
Please give the names of institutions that use the classification for non-statistical purposes (as opposed to statistical purposes in question 13). Also indicate the kind of use (e.g. tax offices, social security, customs, enterprise register etc.) | Administrative records and files
At the Union Registers, since 1995; Union tax offices, social security, labor market regulation and benefits, enterprise register
At States and Local administrative records: ( Brazil is a Federation Union with 3 levels of political and administrative governmental organization) since 1998 CNAE/Brazil with an additional level (5th level) introduced to serve specific administrative uses has been progressively implemented; State and local tax offices, enterprise register, local control and regulation of land using, drugs and food control, environment regulations, etc. |
| 21 | Name of former (previous) national classification
(full name in both national tongue and in English with acronyms in brackets, should be given) | Previous to CNAE there was not an uniform national classification, but different tables of codes and denominations for economic activities used for specific aims of specific users. At IBGE: previous to CNAE:
- Classificação do Censo Agropecuário (Agricultural Census Classification - 1985,): a list of codes and activities;
- Classificação de Atividades econômicas dos Censos Econômicos - 1985 (Economic Census Classification - 1985), covering mining, manufacturing, construction, trade and part of the services. |
| 22 | Link of former classification to international classifcations | Link between previous IBGE classifications and ISIC Rev2 was not precisely defined. For mining and manufacturing there was a correspondence table at the most detailed level. |
| 23 | Levels in the structure (of former classification) | Economic Census Activity Classification for mining, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade and part of the services activities(which were covered by the Economic Census): 4 levels |
| 24 | Number of items at the most detailed level | Number of items at the most detailed level:
Mining and manufacturing - 690 items
Construction - 43 items
Trade - 369 items
Transportation - 22 items
Services (covered by the Census) - 163 items |
| 25 | Do conversion tables exist between former and current classification? | Yes. But there are many cases of n to n correspondence. Changes between CNAE and the previous classifications are due mainly to the decision to build CNAE as a derived ISIC classification. |
| 26 | Date of implementation of former classification | 1985, in the Economic Census |
| 27 | Which statistical data are currently collected or published according to the former classification?
Please indicate if this statistical data is collected or published by the Statistical Office or elsewhere. | In a process of transition to CNAE, IBGE yet (in 2003/09) publishes in the former classification the following data:
- monthly mining and manufacturing indicator ( till the end of 2003); the new series will go back to the beginning of 2003;
- National Accounts (till 2005) |
