Variant of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2022 Version 1.0 for Manufacturing and Logging (extension variant)

Status: This variant of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2022 V1.0 was approved as a departmental standard on September 24, 2021. It replaces the NAPCS 2017 Version 2.0 Revision 1 Manufacturing and Logging variant.

This variant of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) Canada 2022 V1.0 was approved as a departmental standard on September 24, 2021. It replaces the NAPCS 2017 Version 2.0 Revision 1 Manufacturing and Logging variant.

The Annual Survey of Manufacturing and Logging Industries (ASML) is a survey of the manufacturing and logging industries in Canada. It is intended to cover all establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and logging activities as well as some sales offices and warehouses which support these establishments.

The details collected include principal industrial statistics (such as revenue, salaries and wages, cost of materials and supplies used, cost of energy and water utility, inventories, etc.), as well as information about the commodities produced and consumed. Data collected by the ASML industries help measure the production of Canada's industrial and primary resource sectors, as well as provide an indication of the well-being of each industry covered by the survey and its contribution to the Canadian and Provincial economy.

Within Statistics Canada, the data are used by the Canadian System of National Accounts, the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing and Prices programs. The data are also used by the business community, trade associations, federal and provincial departments, as well as international organizations and associations to profile the manufacturing and logging industries, undertake market studies, forecast demand and develop trade and tariff policies. The manufacturing variant was created to capture additional details on products that NAPCS Canada 2022 Version 1.0 would otherwise not have collected. By adding an extra (eighth) digit to the classification, additional detail can be collected.

Detail changes to the standard classification are described in the introduction of each new version of NAPCS Canada.

To simplify the presentation of this variant, the part of the standard classification (NAPCS Canada) that is associated mainly or directly with services (except group 681, Manufacturing services) are excluded from the structure of this variant, these are NAPCS Canada groups 511 to 871.

Classification structure