{"abstract":"This notice presents the Office of Management and Budget's final decisions for the adoption of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for the United States, a new economic classification system that replaces the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) for statistical purposes. NAICS is a system for classifying establishments by type of economic activity. Its purposes are: (1) to facilitate the collection, tabulation, presentation, and analysis of data relating to establishments, and (2) to promote uniformity and comparability in the presentation of statistical data describing the economy. NAICS will be used by Federal statistical agencies that collect or publish data by industry. It is also expected to be widely used by State agencies, trade associations, private businesses, and other organizations. The Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) of Mexico, Statistics Canada, and the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB), through its Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC), have collaborated on NAICS to make the industrial statistics produced in the three countries comparable. NAICS is the first industry classification system developed in accordance with a single principle of aggregation, the principle that producing units that use similar production processes should be grouped together in the classification. The fresh view of establishment data that this restructuring will provide should engender insights into the increasingly interrelated evolution of our economies. NAICS also reflects in a much more explicit way the enormous changes in technology and in the growth and diversification of services that have marked recent decades. Industry statistics compiled using NAICS will also be comparable with statistics compiled according to the latest revision of the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC, Revision 3) for some sixty high level groupings. NAICS will provide a consistent framework for the collection, tabulation, presentation, and analysis of industrial statistics used by government policy analysts, by academics and researchers, by the business community, and by the public. Because of differing national economic and institutional structures as well as limited resources and time for constructing NAICS, however, the NAICS structure has not been made entirely comparable at the individual industry level across all three countries. For some sectors and subsectors, the statistical agencies of the three countries have agreed to harmonize NAICS based on sectoral boundaries rather than on a detailed industry structure. Those sectors or subsectors are: utilities; construction; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance and insurance; real estate; waste management and remediation services; other services that include personal and laundry services, and religious, grantmaking, civic, and professional and similar organizations; and public administration. To ensure comparability between Canada and the United States, the two countries have agreed on an industry structure and hierarchy for each sector listed above except for construction, wholesale trade, and public administration. In some cases within these sectors, the United States will provide for additional industries at the national level to reflect important industries in the United States that will not be shown separately in Canada. To distinguish the three countries' versions of NAICS, they are called NAICS Canada, NAICS Mexico (SCIAN Mexico, in Spanish), and NAICS United States. In developing NAICS United States, OMB has published a total of seven previous Federal Register notices advising the public of the work of the ECPC and seeking comment on that work. The March 31, 1993, Federal Register notice (pp. 16990-17004) announced OMB's intention to revise the SIC for 1997, the establishment of the Economic Classification Policy Committee, and the process for revising the SIC. The July 26, 1994, Federal Register notice (pp. 38092-38096) set forth the concepts for the new system and the decision to develop NAICS in cooperation with Statistics Canada and INEGI. That notice also included a request for the public to submit recommendations for the industries to be included in the new system. The deadline for submitting proposals for new or revised industries was November 7, 1994. After considering all proposals from the public, consulting with a large number of U.S. data users and industry groups, and undertaking extensive discussions with INEGI and Statistics Canada, a new industrial structure for NAICS that would apply to all three North American countries was developed. A series of five Federal Register notices sought comment on the structure of the system. These notices are described in more detail in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. As intimated by the description below of the NAICS development process, the actual classification presented at the end of this notice in Tables 1 and 2 reveals only the tip of the work carried out by dedicated individuals 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. This has been an immense undertaking that has required the time, energy, creativity, and cooperation of numerous people and organizations throughout the three countries. The work that has been accomplished is a testament to the individual and collective willingness of many persons and organizations both inside and outside government to contribute to the development of NAICS.","action":"Notice of final decision.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET","name":"Management and Budget Office","id":280,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/management-and-budget-office","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/280","parent_id":null,"slug":"management-and-budget-office"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/1997/04/09/97-8101.html","cfr_references":[],"citation":"62 FR 17288","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"Federal statistical data published for reference years beginning on or after January 1, 1997, will be published using the new NAICS United States codes. NAICS is scheduled to go into effect in 1997 in Canada and the United States, and in 1998 in Mexico. Publication of the 1997 NAICS United States Manual is planned for December 1997. Use of NAICS for nonstatistical purposes (e.g., administrative, regulatory, or taxation) will be determined by the agency or agencies that have chosen to use the SIC for nonstatistical purposes. Readers interested in the effective dates for the use of NAICS for nonstatistical purposes should contact the relevant agency to determine its plans, if any, for a transition from use of the SIC to NAICS.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":[],"dockets":[],"document_number":"97-8101","effective_on":null,"end_page":17478,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"full_text_xml_url":null,"html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/04/09/97-8101/1997-north-american-industry-classification-system1987-standard-industrial-classification","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/97-8101?publication_date=1997-04-09","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-1997-04-09/97-8101/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":191,"page_views":{"count":537,"last_updated":"2026-08-25 14:15:04 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-04-09/pdf/97-8101.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":null,"publication_date":"1997-04-09","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/1997/04/09/97-8101.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":17288,"subtype":null,"title":"1997 North American Industry Classification System1987 Standard Industrial Classification Replacement","toc_doc":null,"toc_subject":null,"topics":[],"type":"Notice","volume":62}