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WORKING GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL
CLASSIFICATIONS (GTCI)
Meeting of the Expert Group on International Statistical Classifications
New York, United States of America13-15 May 2013
Formation of the GTCI
Its formation was agreed in the “Regional Seminar on the exchange of experiences on classifications and nomenclatures”, at Santiago de Chile in 2010, organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE-Population Division) together with the SCA/ECLAC Census Group, and with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
General objective of the GTCI
Support the countries of the region in adopting or adapting the new versions of the international classifications, in order to contribute to the development of official statistics in the various statistical programs.
Classifications that will be used within the GTCI
• International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC).
• Central Product Classification (CPC).• International Standard Classification on
Occupations (ISCO).
GTCI Members
The Andean Community and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are represented as well.
17 National Statistical Offices (NSO) :
Barbados Guatemala
Bolivia Haiti
Brazil Honduras
Chile Mexico
Colombia Panama
Costa Rica Peru
Dominican Republic Saint Lucia
Ecuador Uruguay
El Salvador
• Steering Committee
• Subcommittee for the translation of the CPC Ver.2 and the changes to the CPC Ver 2.1. Composed by Chile, Colombia and Peru, it is coordinated by Colombia.
• Subcommittee for the translation of the ISIC Rev. 4 Implementation Guide. Constituted by Chile and Mexico, and assisted by Argentina, it is coordinated by Chile.
• Training subcommittee. Composed by Costa Rica and Uruguay, and assisted by Paraguay, it is coordinated by Uruguay.
Organization of the GTCI members
Benefits of the GTCI for Latin American and Caribbean countries
• Having a mechanism to raise, discuss, agree and specify classification proposals reflecting their economies and in turn support the update of international classifications.
• Be timely informed about updates to the international
economic and social classifications, in order to foresee the impacts on their own classifications and the resources necessary for the implementation or adaptation of new versions.
Benefits of the GTCI for Latin American and Caribbean countries
• Access to all documents regarding the ISIC, CPC and ISCO classifications.
• Have a means to strengthen and formalize the horizontal collaborations between members.
• Strengthening the communication basis not only between the classifications used in the region but between statistics.
GTCI Meetings• First face-to-face meeting was held in Santiago de
Chile in September 2012.
• A video conference was held in April 2013 to follow up the tasks agreed in the first meeting.
• Second face-to-face meeting will be held in June 2013 at INEGI headquarters in Aguascalientes, México.
Main outcomes
• Learn the progress and challenges faced by the NSO in the implementation or adoption of the ISIC, CPC and ISCO classifications.
• Formalize horizontal collaboration regarding the implementation or adoption of the classifications.
• Obtain direct answers from the UN on difficult classification issues.
Horizontal collaboration• Findings from the First meeting of the
GTCI: The countries that attended the
meeting apply the ISIC. Countries such as Costa Rica, Panama
and Uruguay needed priority support to implement the CPC, and
Peru requested advice on the ISCO.
The horizontal collaboration that was
materialized:Colombia - Uruguay
Horizontal collaborationColombia - Uruguay
• Uruguay’s Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) and Banco Central de Uruguay (BCU) are developing an adaptation titled Clasificación Central de Productos Ver. 2 Adaptada a Uruguay (CPCAU), and Requested Colombia’s Departamento
Administrativo Nacional de Estadísticas (DANE) to share its experience (Colombia has developed the adaptation process since the CPC 1.0 version).
Collaboration work carried out
in three phases:I. Colombia reviewed the CPCAU making a
series of remarks and comments which were discussed in working groups.
II. Colombia exposed the classification’s conceptual framework and the procedure followed up by DANE to develop the adaptation proposal.
Collaboration work carried out
in three phases:III. Colombia shared:
– Explanatory notes of the HS.– A paper on the CPC conceptual
framework.– The translation of the CPC numerical
index.
The final report is being drafted and will be sent to the participants.
Challenges faced in the horizontal collaboration
• Before the CPC, Uruguay used to work with a product classification by activity which had to be migrated to the CPC; there were two different types of classifications conceptually speaking, and even if related, they implied a major methodological change.
• Considering the close relationship between the ISIC and the CPC, much of the detail in the CPCAU came from what was already found in the ISIC, therefore it was not easy to establish a relationship between the CPC and the CPCAU.
• The economy of each country is different, thus there are specific elements that must be shown in the adaptation; e.g.:– Bank operation supervision services:
• Are carried out by Uruguay’s Central Bank• It is a service rendered by a separate entity in Colombia.
Collaboration’s conclusions• Collaboration processes generate a very interesting
learning experience not only for the country which receives the cooperation but also for the one which gives it.
• The need expressed in the first meeting of the GTCI in Santiago de Chile is reiterated: – It is very important that the UN provides the NSO
the Spanish translation of the classifications simultaneously with its English versions, since many doubts during the collaboration process were related to the translation used by Uruguay.
Electronic Forum
You can actively participate in the GTCI through the Electronic Forum, you only need to request your access code at:
THANK YOU
Eva Castillo NavarreteSubdirector, Classification of Economic Activities and Products
Chair of the GTCI