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| 1 | Name of the current national classification (Original) | Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG) - Classification type des biens transportés (CTBT) |
| 2 | Link to international classifications
(Give the name of the international standard classification the current classification is linked to or derived | Harmonized System (HS) |
| 3 | If no links to international classifications exist or no international standard is used, please state if there any plans to use international norms, such as work in progress, translation etc. | |
| 4 | Please describe deviations from the international standard (if any)
(Use one or two examples, if general statement not possible) | SCTG was developed by regrouping classes of the HS or the HS-based Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) into meaningful classes according to transportation characteristics. Thus the SCTG does not use the HS structure as its base, but in most cases the SCTG is defined in terms of groupings of complete HS 4- or 6- digit classes. In a small number of cases, however, the SCTG was defined by splitting the HS 6-digit classes. In these cases SCG classes are used as the building blocks in defining the SCTG 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? | SCTG is a 5-digit classification with the following levels of hierarchy:
First level (2-digit) - 41 categories.
Second level (3-digits) - 132 categories.
Third level (4-digits) - 283 categories.
Fourth level (5-digits) - 501 categories |
| 6 | Number of items at the most detailed level of the current classification | 501 categories at the 5-digit level |
| 7 | Do conversion tables exist between the national and the international classifications (if applicable)? | Yes |
| 8 | Name of institution / office responsible for the elaboration and maintenance of the classification | Statistics Canada
Standards Division |
| 9 | Contact address, phone number, e-mail or website for public information and inquiry | Gil Elliot
Standards Division Statistics Canada
120 Parkdale Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0T6Gil.elliot@statcan.ca
Telephone: (613) 951-3464 |
| 10 | Implementation date:
Please state the date of the first official adoption and the programme for the implementation of the various statistical applications. | October 1996 |
| 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). | Revised September 1998. It is our intention to periodically redefine the SCTG in terms of the current HS classification. |
| 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. | Transportation Division - Statistics Canada - rail, marine and trucking surveys.
International Trade Division - Statistics Canada - recasts trade data to SCTG basis for use by Transport Canada.
Transport Canada
US Bureau of the Census - for the Commodity Flow SurveyRAILINC (AAR) - Services Division carry a concordance between SCTG and the STCC (US Standard Transportation Commodity Code) on their Master Product Tape. |
| 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. | Transportation Division - Monthly Railway Car loading (MRC) - collected at various specially constructed aggregations of the SCTG.
US Bureau of the Census - Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) |
| 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. | Transportation Division disseminates data at various levels of the SCTG. Rail data will be published for the first time for 1999 data according to a special aggregation of SCTG classes. Marine data will be published for year 2000 data according to a special aggregation of SCTG classes. Trucking data will likely be published at the 3-digit level of the SCTG for 1999 data, but a special aggregation is being considered for future publication of trucking data |
| 15 | In which languages is the classification available? | English and French |
| 16 | Is the classification available in electronic form? | Yes, it is available in Microsoft Word format as well as PC database format. |
| 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.) | |
| 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.) | |
| 21 | Alternative classifications used by other institutions of the economy
Please indicate if these classifications are available and useful for the Statistical Office. | N/A |
| 22 | Are conversion tables between alternative and current classification available? | N/A |
| 23 | Name of former (previous) national classification
(full name in both national tongue and in English with acronyms in brackets, should be given) | Standard Commodity Classification (SCC) for Rail - TFC 320 (Traffic Freight Code) 320 aggregated categories of the SCC (standard Commodity Classification) concorded with STCC; the TFC was further aggregated to the Rac11 with 66 categories for Truck - a custom aggregation of SCC (600 or 700categiories at the 3- and 5-digit levels ) - dissemination was at the 2-digit level for Marine - a custom aggregation of SCC and then SCG 601 - the first HS based aggregation before SCTG.
SCG601 was a custom aggregation of SCG into 601 categories at the 5-digit level further aggregated to 101 at the 3-digit level |
| 24 | Link of former classification to international classifcations | No |
| 25 | Levels in the structure (of former classification) | See above |
| 26 | Number of items at the most detailed level | |
| 27 | Do conversion tables exist between former and current classification? | No |
| 28 | Date of implementation of former classification | SCC was last updated in 1972. |
| 29 | 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. | All have been converted to SCTG. |
