Consultation on the UK's adoption of industrial classification of economic activity

Closes 29 Oct 2025

Opened 6 Apr 2022

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Overview

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) would like your views on the next steps for updating UK Standard Industrial Classification (UK SIC) and to understand how you are using it. We’d like to hear your thoughts on the classification, its structure, and representation of economic activities in the UK. We want to understand how any potential changes in updating the classification framework may impact you in your use of UK SIC. 

Our consultation is asking which international classification framework we should adopt. We are also inviting your views on whether the chosen framework should be further adapted to more specifically reflect the UK economy, and if so at what level. The international revisions of International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE) have now been completed. This has resulted in the need for a UK SIC revision and our invitation for you to respond to the consultation on the next steps for UK SIC.

Industrial classifications of economic activity are a fundamental component of economic statistics, allowing us to monitor trends in economic performance over time. These statistics are vital for informing economic policy.

The consultation document explains how the current UK economic classification system, UK SIC, aligns with our International and European counterparts, ISIC and NACE and how our statistics remain internationally comparable.

It also details a range of factors for consideration such as governance, granularity and comparability, correlation, and the UK economy representation.

For more information on the consultation and to view the questionnaire in full before submitting your response, please view the accompanying 'Consultation Document and Questionnaire'. A 'Frequently asked questions' document is also available to view.

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