Standards and Classification Systems

• Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC)
  standard classification of goods and services in the Philippines, including tangible assets based on their physical properties and intrinsic nature as well as industrial origin

• Philippine Standard Classification of Education (PSCEd)
  a detailed classification of all educational levels in the Philippine Educational System.

• Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC)
  a detailed classification of all commodities that enter the Philippine trade

• Philippine Standard Occupational Classification (PSOC)
  a classification of the different occupations of the working population, including the military workforce of the country

• Philippine Standard Geographic Classification (PSGC)
  a classification and coding of the geographical-political subdivisions of the country, such as the region, the province, the municipality/city and the barangay

• Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC)
  a classification of all economic activities obtaining in the country

Official Concepts and Definitions for Statistical Purposes

Select a sector: Education Foreign Direct Investments Forestry Health and Nutrition Housing Informal Sector Labor and Employment Population Poverty Prices Tourism New this quarter: Poverty Sector

 

Resolutions and Memorandum-Orders

NSCB Resolution No. 3-2005
Approving and Adopting the 2004 Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC)

NSCB Resolution No. 1-2004
Approving and Adopting the Policy on the Revision and Amendment of the Philippine Standard Classification Systems

NSCB Memorandum Order No. 3-2003
Reconstituting the Technical Committee on Statistical Standards and Classifications

NSCB Resolution No. 3-2003
Approving and Adopting the Latest Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) Updates and Revisions

NSCB Resolution No. 6-2003
Adoption of an official Definition and Methodology of Core Inflation

NSCB Resolution No. 9-2003
Adoption of the Operational Definition of Urban Areas In the Philippines

NSCB Resolution No. 11-2003
Approving and Adopting the official Concepts and Definitions for Statistical Purposes of the Selected Sectors: Prices, Population, Housing, and Tourism

NSCB Resolution No. 3-2002
Approving and Adopting the Amendments To the 1994 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification

NSCB Resolution No. 12-2002
Approving the Product Coverage of Electronic Exports

NSCB Resolution No. 13-2002
Approving and Adopting the 2002 Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC)

NSCB Resolution No. 15-2002
Adoption of an official Definition on the Informal Sector

NSCB Resolution No. 16-2002
Approving and Adopting the Updates To the 1992 Philippine Standard Occupational Classification (PSOC)

NSCB Resolution No. 7-1995
Approving and Adopting the 1994 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification

NSCB Resolution No. 5-1994
Approving the Classification of Barangays
as of April 15, 1994

NSCB Resolution No. 4-1994
Adoption of the Philippine Standard
Classification of Education

NSCB Resolution No. 9-1993
Approving the Philippine Standard Commodity Classification Revision 2

NSCB Resolution No. 4-1993
Adoption of the 1992 Philippine Standard Occupational Classification

NSCB Resolution No. 4-1989
Adoption of the Philippine Standard Commodity Classification, Revised

NSCB Resolution No. 5-1988
Creation of Technical Committees on Statistical Standards and Classifications, and Population and Housing Statistics

Online Databases

Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC)

Philippine Standard Geographic Codes (PSGC)

Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC)

Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC)

Publications

Philippine Central Product Classification (PCPC)

• Primer [35KB]
• Publication

Philippine Standard Geographic Classification (PSGC)

Philippine Standard Commodity Classification (PSCC)

Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC)

Philippine Standard Occupational Classification (PSOC)