Transition

New statistics using NACE rev. 2.1

NACE rev. 2.1 will be used in European statistics as per the roll-out schedule of article 2 of the Commission delegated regulation 2023/137.

To support the roll-out, Eurostat and its partners in the European Statistical System (ESS) are developing a correspondence table between NACE rev. 2 and NACE rev. 2.1. This will describe, for each NACE rev. 2 heading, how activities currently classified therein should be classified in NACE rev. 2.1.

Previous statistics using NACE rev. 2.1

For many European statistics, there is a need for historical time series using the same NACE version. Therefore, parallel data sets presenting the current statistics, but broken down by NACE rev. 2.1 instead of NACE rev. 2, will be published for many statistical domains.

As there are considerable differences between the 2 versions of the classification, this will require backcasting methods to be applied to previous statistics so that they can be presented by NACE rev. 2.1.

For some statistics, there will also be double reporting, with countries sending statistics broken down by NACE rev. 2 in parallel to the statistics broken down by NACE rev. 2.1 for a certain period.

Together with its partners in the ESS, Eurostat will establish plans for this backcasting and double reporting.