Classification Detail
International Classification of Non-Profit Organizations (ICNPO)
Basic Bibliographic Information
• Status:
Operational
• Type:
To Be Determined
• Citation:
N/A
• ISBN:
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.F/91
UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION
Sales No: E.03.XVII.9
ISBN 92-1-161461-9
Copyright © United Nations 2003
• Website:
• Custodian:
United Nations Statistics Division
• Available Formats:
Print, PDF
• Year Adopted:
2003
• Year Published:
2003
Available Languages (besides English):
N/A
• Availability:
Fully available in all of the languages above
Purpose of the Classification
• Statistical Domains (in CSA 2.0):
20101 System of National Accounts
• Purpose:
To specify one or more classification schemes that can be used to differentiate the various types of non-profit organizations. The classification system builts fundamentally on ISIC, Rev. 3 as the primary classification scheme to detail the Non-Profit Institutions (NPI) sector in the satellite account when the focus of the analysis or data presentation is chiefly or exclusively the NPI sector.
• Main Applications:
NPI satellite accounts
• Main Users:
National accounts compilers and users, and civil society
Methodology
• Scope:
NPIs are essentially classified into industries on the basis of the chief or characteristic product that they produce, using the same classification scheme that is applied to economic activities generally in the 1993 SNA- i.e. ISIC , Rev. 3.1 ISIC, Rev. 3 is designed to be a classification for production statistics. The unit to which it is applied-the establishment-is intended to be the smallest unit from which it is possible to collect information on outputs, inputs and the processes by which inputs are transformed into outputs
• Concept Being Classified:
Institutional sectors, transactions, stocks and flows of NPIs
• Statistical Units:
Institutional units, transactions, stocks and flows
• Main Principles:
N/A
• Relationships to Other International Classifications:
Related To:
Major Differences (Scope, Structure, and Concepts):
The classification hierarchies of the conceptual elements particular to the NPI use also other classification systems, including those describing the industrial classification used for production and classifications of goods and services, some of which describe the nature of the items and others that describe the purpose they are intended to serve.
Classification Structure
• Definition of Structure:
Level:
Level Name:
Code Format:
Number of Items:
N/A
• Remarks:
Accounts can be compiled at greater or lesser degrees of detail by using higher or lower levels of these hierarchies. In some cases, a full specification requires information about two or even three hierarchies. For example, entries in the accounts typically refer to a sector and a transaction or other flow and may specify what type of product or asset is the subject of the entry
• Criteria for Definition of Levels:
Lower level provide more detail about the higher levels
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
• Official Adopting Entity:
United Nations Statistical Commission
• Coordinating Entity:
Inter Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts
• Next Review:
2016
• Reason for Latest Revision:
New Classification
Supporting Documents
• Coding Index Available:
No
• Training Materials and Other Documents:
Part of NPI handbook implementation
Contact Information
• Agency / Office:
UNSD, National Accounts Section
• Contact Name:
National Accounts Section
• Email:
• Website:
• Telephone:
2129634679