Economic activities were categorized according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4. ISIC divides economic activities into Sections, which are further broken down into Divisions, Groups and Classes. ENCORE uses a list of 271 economic activities which correspond to ISIC Groups, with the exception of selected groups that have been further broken down to align with ISIC classes. Below is a list of all economic activities used in ENCORE. The ISIC Rev.4 definitions of these can be found here).
Accommodation and food service activities
- Beverage serving activities
- Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks
- Event catering and other food service activities
- Other accommodation
- Restaurants and mobile food service activities
- Short term accommodation activities
Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
- Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
- Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel
- Undifferentiated goods-producing activities of private households for own use
- Undifferentiated service-producing activities of private households for own use
Administrative and support service activities
- Activities of call centres
- Activities of employment placement agencies
- Business support service activities n.e.c.
- Cleaning activities
- Combined facilities support activities
- Investigation activities
- Landscape care and maintenance service activities
- Leasing of intellectual property and similar products, except copyrighted works
- Office administrative and support activities
- Organization of conventions and trade shows
- Other human resources provision
- Other reservation service and related activities
- Private security activities
- Renting and leasing of motor vehicles
- Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods
- Renting and leasing of personal and household goods
- Security systems service activities
- Temporary employment agency activities
- Tour operator activities
- Travel agency activities
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
- Aquaculture
- Fishing
- Gathering of non-wood forest products
- Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
- Growing of fibre crops
- Growing of other non-perennial crops
- Growing of perennial crops
- Growing of rice
- Growing of sugar cane
- Growing of tobacco
- Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers
- Hunting, trapping and related service activities
- Logging
- Mixed farming
- Plant propagation
- Post-harvest crop activities
- Raising of camels and camelids
- Raising of cattle and buffaloes
- Raising of horses and other equines
- Raising of other animals
- Raising of poultry
- Raising of sheep and goats
- Raising of swine/pigs
- Seed processing for propagation
- Silviculture and other forestry activities
- Support activities for animal production
- Support activities for crop production
- Support services to forestry
Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Creative, arts and entertainment activities
- Gambling and betting activities
- Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities
- Other amusement and recreation activities
- Sports activities
Construction
- Building completion and finishing
- Construction of buildings
- Construction of other civil engineering projects
- Construction of roads and railways
- Construction of utility projects
- Demolition and site preparation
- Electrical, plumbing and other construction installation activities
- Other specialized construction activities
Education
- Educational support activities
- Higher education
- Other education
- Pre-primary and primary education
- Secondary education
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
- Biomass energy production
- Fossil fuels energy production
- Geothermal energy production
- Hydropower energy production
- Manufacture of gas; distribution of gaseous fuels through mains
- Nuclear power production
- Ocean energy production
- Solar energy production
- Steam and air conditioning supply
- Transmission and distribution of electricity
- Wind energy production
Financial and insurance activities
- Activities auxiliary to financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
- Activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding
- Activities of holding companies
- Fund management activities
- Insurance
- Monetary intermediation
- Other financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding activities
- Pension funding
- Reinsurance
- Trusts, funds and similar financial entities
Human health and social work activities
- Hospital activities
- Medical and dental practice activities
- Other human health activities
- Other residential care activities
- Other social work activities without accommodation
- Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
- Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
- Residential nursing care facilities
- Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
Information and communication
- Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
- Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals
- Motion picture, video and television programme activities
- Other information service activities
- Other telecommunications activities
- Publishing of books, periodicals and other publishing activities
- Radio broadcasting
- Satellite telecommunications activities
- Software publishing
- Sound recording and music publishing activities
- Television programming and broadcasting activities
- Wired telecommunications activities
- Wireless telecommunications activities
Manufacturing
- Building of ships and boats
- Casting of metals
- Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits
- Installation of industrial machinery and equipment
- Manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
- Manufacture of articles of fur
- Manufacture of basic chemicals
- Manufacture of basic iron and steel
- Manufacture of basic precious and other non-ferrous metals
- Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
- Manufacture of bodies (coachwork) for motor vehicles; manufacture of trailers and semi-trailers
- Manufacture of coke oven products
- Manufacture of communication equipment
- Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment
- Manufacture of consumer electronics
- Manufacture of dairy products
- Manufacture of domestic appliances
- Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
- Manufacture of electric motors, generators, transformers and electricity distribution and control apparatus
- Manufacture of electronic components and boards
- Manufacture of fertilizers and nitrogen compounds
- Manufacture of footwear
- Manufacture of furniture
- Manufacture of games and toys
- Manufacture of general-purpose machinery
- Manufacture of glass and glass products
- Manufacture of grain mill products, starches and starch products
- Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
- Manufacture of jewellery, bijouterie and related articles
- Manufacture of knitted and crocheted apparel
- Manufacture of magnetic and optical media
- Manufacture of malt liquors and malt
- Manufacture of man-made fibres
- Manufacture of measuring, testing, navigating and control equipment; watches and clocks
- Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
- Manufacture of military fighting vehicles
- Manufacture of motor vehicles
- Manufacture of musical instruments
- Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products n.e.c.
- Manufacture of optical instruments and photographic equipment
- Manufacture of other chemical products
- Manufacture of other electrical equipment
- Manufacture of other fabricated metal products; metalworking service activities
- Manufacture of other food products
- Manufacture of other textiles
- Manufacture of paper and paper products
- Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
- Manufacture of pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products
- Manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms
- Manufacture of plastics products
- Manufacture of prepared animal feeds
- Manufacture of products of wood, cork, straw and plaiting materials
- Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
- Manufacture of refined petroleum products
- Manufacture of rubber products
- Manufacture of soft drinks; production of mineral waters and other bottled waters
- Manufacture of special-purpose machinery
- Manufacture of sports goods
- Manufacture of structural metal products, tanks, reservoirs and steam generators
- Manufacture of tobacco products
- Manufacture of transport equipment n.e.c.
- Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats
- Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
- Manufacture of wearing apparel, except fur apparel
- Manufacture of wines
- Manufacture of wiring and wiring devices
- Other manufacturing n.e.c.
- Printing and service activities related to printing
- Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
- Processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables
- Processing and preserving of meat
- Repair of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment
- Reproduction of recorded media
- Sawmilling and planing of wood
- Spinning, weaving and finishing of textiles
- Tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage, handbags, saddlery and harness; dressing and dyeing of fur
Mining and quarrying
- Extraction of crude petroleum
- Extraction of natural gas
- Mining and quarrying n.e.c.
- Mining of hard coal
- Mining of iron ores
- Mining of lignite
- Mining of non-ferrous metal ores
- Quarrying of stone, sand and clay
- Support activities for other mining and quarrying
- Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
Other service activities
- Activities of business, employers and professional membership organizations
- Activities of other membership organizations
- Activities of trade unions
- Other personal service activities
- Repair of computers and communication equipment
- Repair of personal and household goods
Professional, scientific and technical activities
- Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
- Activities of head offices
- Advertising
- Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy
- Legal activities
- Management consultancy activities
- Market research and public opinion polling
- Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
- Photographic activities
- Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
- Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
- Specialized design activities
- Technical testing and analysis
- Veterinary activities
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
- Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community
- Compulsory social security activities
- Provision of services to the community as a whole
Real estate activities
- Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis
- Real estate activities with own or leased property
Transportation and storage
- Cargo handling
- Courier activities
- Freight air transport
- Inland water transport
- Other land transport
- Other transportation support activities
- Passenger air transport
- Postal activities
- Sea and coastal water transport
- Service activities incidental to air transportation
- Service activities incidental to land transportation
- Service activities incidental to water transportation
- Transport via pipeline
- Transport via railways
- Warehousing and storage
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
- Materials recovery
- Remediation activities and other waste management services
- Sewerage
- Waste collection
- Waste treatment and disposal
- Water collection, treatment and supply
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
- Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
- Non-specialized wholesale trade
- Other specialized wholesale
- Retail sale in non-specialized stores
- Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialized stores
- Retail sale of cultural and recreation goods in specialized stores
- Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialized stores
- Retail sale of information and communications equipment in specialized stores
- Retail sale of other goods in specialized stores
- Retail sale of other household equipment in specialized stores
- Retail sale via stalls and markets
- Retail trade not in stores, stalls or markets
- Sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories
- Sale of motor vehicles
- Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories
- Wholesale of agricultural raw materials and live animals
- Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
- Wholesale of household goods
- Wholesale of machinery, equipment and supplies
- Wholesale on a fee or contract basis