The United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs' Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) are organizing a joint Workshop on International Economic Classifications in cooperation with the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and GOIC.
Background
As new economic developments occur and needs in economic analysis change, standards, norms and classifications in statistics have to reflect these new conditions. The revisions of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Central Product Classification (CPC) have been conducted in this context.
The revision of ISIC and CPC, adopted in 2007 pursued a number of goals, such as to adapt the existing classifications to the changed economic situation in the world, reflect the needs of countries in different phases of economic development, improve the relationship of ISIC to other important activity classifications in use around the world and provide guidance to users through detailed explanatory notes.