AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (ANZSIC)

5.60 The ANZSIC was developed jointly by the ABS and Statistics New Zealand (SNZ). One of the guiding principles in the development of the ANZSIC was to align it as closely as possible to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC). However, the degree of alignment is sometimes adversely affected by competing classification principles, e.g. a different organisation or structure of an Australian or New Zealand industry, or a lack of significance of some internationally recognised economic activities in the two economies.

5.61 The ANZSIC is used in Australia and New Zealand for the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics on an industry basis. While it is designed for compilation of statistics on a standard industry basis, it can also be used to produce statistics on an industry of origin basis. Australia's international merchandise trade statistics are most commonly presented according to the industry of origin but some export data are compiled on a standard industry basis.


INDUSTRY OF ORIGIN STATISTICS

5.62 Monthly export and import statistics are released on an industry of origin basis in the ABS publication International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia (cat. no. 5368.0):

• Table 32a contains ANZSIC 2006 exports data, by FOB value, as a monthly time series commencing from July 2005
• Table 32b contains ANZSIC 1993 exports data, by FOB value, as a monthly time series commencing from January 1988 and ending in June 2009
• Table 35a contains ANZSIC 2006 imports data, by customs value, as a monthly time series commencing from July 2005
• Table 35b contains ANZSIC 1993 imports data, by customs value, as a monthly time series commencing from January 1988 and ending in June 2009.

5.63 Industry of origin statistics are compiled by allocating statistical codes from the AHECC and the Customs Tariff to an ANZSIC industry class based on the primary activities of the industries with which they are most commonly associated, i.e. commodity codes are assigned to industry classes by matching the commodities to the defined primary activities of classes in the ANZSIC. These are the industries most likely to have produced the traded items. All trade in a commodity is assigned to one industry class (which may or may not be the only industry which produces the goods). This is because international merchandise trade data are compiled from customs records which are based on the commodities traded and not the actual industry which produced the goods.

5.64 There are correspondences available from ANZSIC to the HS and to the SITC (and vice versa), at the most detailed level of the classifications, see Appendix 6.2 in the 'Downloads' tab.

5.65 An example of the hierarchical structure of ANZSIC 2006 is shown in Table 5.8 below.

Level	Code	Description
Division	A	Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Subdivision	01	Agriculture
Group	013	Fruit and Tree Nut Growing
Class	0134	Apple and Pear Growing

5.66 In international merchandise trade statistics, all apples and pears (which are primary to ANZSIC 2006, class 0134) will be classified as shown above irrespective of the industry undertaking the production.

5.67 International merchandise trade data was first presented, on an industry of origin basis, according to the ANZSIC, in July 1993. In February 2006, a new version of ANZSIC (ANZSIC 2006) was released. The changes are detailed in Information Paper: Changes to International Trade in Goods Industry Statistics, July 2009 (cat. no. 5368.0.55.011). The ABS began disseminating international merchandise trade data by ANZSIC 2006 in July 2009. To enable analysis over time the ABS compiled international merchandise trade data using both versions of ANZSIC so that:

• ANZSIC 2006 data is available for all periods from July 2005
• ANZSIC 1993 data is available for all periods from January 1988 to June 2009.

STANDARD INDUSTRY STATISTICS

5.68 Annual exports data are released on a standard industry basis in the ABS publication Characteristics of Australian Exporters (cat. no. 5368.0.55.006). This publication provides a number of tables on the industry of the exporting business, or a standard industry basis. This is the ANZSIC 2006 industry of the exporting business as registered against their ABN on the Australian Business Register (ABR). However, this may not be the actual producer of the good as the data relate to the exporter or owner of the goods at the time of export. The publication tables include broad level statistics on the industry of the exporter, by the size of the exporter, and the industry of origin of the exported commodity, by the industry of the exporter.