Implementation of SIC 2007 for the Vacancy Survey
SUMMARYThe article reports on the work to publish the Vacancy Survey on Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007). The main developments are:
changes to the survey design have led to changes in both the industrial groupings and employment size bands used for samplingcreation of historical series on a consistent basis with the latest dataseasonal adjustment of the new serieschanges made to published outputs, including the impact of the revisions.
Implementation of Standard Industrial Classification 2007: December 2009 update
AbstractONS initially publicised its plans for the implementation of SIC 2007 in Hughes (2008), and this was followed up with an article covering a wider Government Statistical Service angle (Brook and Hughes 2009). This article describes the methodological aspects of the move to SIC 2007; lays out the implications for
National Accounts; and gives an update on the timetable for implementation across the Labour Market Statistics outputs, some of the details of which have changed since the previous publication.
Implementation of SIC 2007 across the Government Statistical Service (GSS)
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is a method of classifying businesses by their type of economic activity. The classification is used in the collection and presentation of data across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and for administrative purposes and by government and nongovernment bodies as a convenient way of classifying industrial activities into a uniform and common structure. The UK’s SIC has been revised six times since its introduction in 1948, but SIC 2007 represents the first major revision since 1992 and follows a series of consultations in conjunction with a revision of the European Union’s industrial classification system. This article give an overview of ONS’s progress over the last year towards carrying out the revision and discusses the wider impact across the GSS.