Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (ECOICOP)

COICOP is a reference classification published by the United Nations Statistics Division which is used in National accounts, Household Budget surveys (HBS), Price Statistics (HICP) and Purchasing Power Parities (PPP). Parts of this classification are also used in Food safety statistics or environment statistics. Eurostat started in 2010 a work of harmonisation and revision of the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP) at 5-digit level. As a result, the ESS now has a single harmonised COICOP classification at five-digit level. The objectives of COICOP are to lay down a framework of homogeneous categories of goods and services, which are considered as a function or purpose of expenditure by households with the object of classifying transactions in relation to individual consumption, social transfers and households' real consumption.

Individual Consumption According to Purpose (ECOICOP) 2016

European Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose (ECOICOP)