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- '< ". -',,'. I it v\ \ LA IFIGATHJN J UriilM States,-2002 ALLENCOUNTYP m STO 3 1833 04271 9721 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/isbn_0890595666 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET North American Industry Classification System United 2002 States, Dedication TheOfficeofManagementandBudget(OMB)isindebtedtothemanyindividu- als and organizations whose vision, insights, and energies have made NAICS United States a reality. ThisNAICS UnitedStates manual is dedicatedto the memory ofLindaM. Dill, of the Social Security Administration, who worked on the Administrative and Maintenance Subcommittees until her death. — This product is the result of collaboration and a partnership between Bernan and the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Usersoftheproductareadvisedthatsubsequentupdates,additionsandnotifications of alteration with answers to frequently asked questions can be found on the site (http://www.census.gov/naics)aslistedoneachpageofthepublication. Additional copies may be conveniently ordered from Bernan, NTIS, or through most major book outlets. Questions 9-12 on page 102 and pages 103-107 were produced by Bernan and are protected by copyright, as is the format of the work. All rights reserved. No part of the work covered by the copyright may be reproduced or used in any — form or by any means, whether graphic, electronic, or mechanical including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems without written permission of Bernan. Bernan, a division of The Kraus Organization Limited. Published 2002 Printed in the United States of America 2003 2002 4 3 2 1 BERNAN 4611-F Assembly Drive MD Lanham, 20706 (800) 274-4447 email: [email protected] www.bernan.com This official product is released as available in these formats: ISBN 0-89059-566-6 CD-ROM version ISBN 0-934213-87-9 (Order Number: PB2002-502024) Printed by Automated Graphic Systems, Inc., White Plains, MD, on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 standard. Foreword TheInstitutoNacional de Estadistica, Geografiae Informatica(INEGI) ofMexico, StatisticsCanada, andtheUnitedStatesOfficeofManagementandBudget,through its Economic Classification Policy Committee, havejointly updated the system of classification of economic activities that makes the industrial statistics produced in the three countries comparable. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) revision for 2002 is scheduled to go into effect for reference year 2002 in Canada and the United States, and 2003 in Mexico. NAICS was originally developed to provide aconsistentframeworkforthe collection, analysis and dissemination of industrial statistics used by government policy analysts, by academicsandresearchers,bythebusinesscommunity,andbythepublic.Revisions for 2002 were made to account for our rapidly changing economies. Classifications serveas alensthroughwhichtoviewthedatatheyclassify. NAICS is the first industry classification system that was developed in accordance with a single principle of aggregation, the principle that producing units that use similar production processes should be grouped together. NAICS also reflects, in a much more explicit way, the enormous changes in technology and in the growth and diversificationofservices thathave markedrecentdecades. ThoughNAICS differs fromotherindustryclassificationsystems,statisticscompiledonNAICSarecompa- rablewithstatisticscompiledaccordingtothelatestrevisionoftheUnitedNations' International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC, Revision 3) for some 60 high level groupings. The actual classification reveals only the tip ofthe work carried out by dedicated staff from INEGI, Statistics Canada, and U.S. statistical agencies. It is through their efforts, painstaking analysis, and spirit of accommodation that NAICS has emerged as a harmonized international classification of economic activities.