Classification - COICOP
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Please be informed that the COICOP'2018 nomenclature will be implemented in the national accounts as of 1 October 2024, in the CPI from the monthly data publishing of 2025 and in the Household Budget Survey as of 1 January 2026.
Short description
COICOP is a national adaptation of international standard to classification of individual consumption by purpose.
COICOP – short description (pdf, 113 KB)
Structure
The code numbers and descriptions of the items of the classification.
COICOP’2013 structure (xlsx, 29 KB)
from 1 oktober 2024
COICOP’2018 structure (xlsx, 248 KB)
Explanatory notes
The explanatory notes determine the content of classification items. They help to classify items into the appropriate category of the classification.
COICOP’2013 explanatory notes (pdf, 535 KB)
Search engine
It supports quick search in the classification. As a result of searching by code number or text, it displays all the items in the classification that contain such code number or text.
No search engine has been made for this classification.
Methodology
The materials here contain the principles and rules of application of the classification.
Methodology (pdf, 83 KB)
Correspondence tables
Correspondence table(s) between the items of the current and the previous version of the classification.
There is no difference on the 3-digit level between COICOP’2000 and COICOP’2013, as such no translation key has been generated for the COICOP’2000 3-digit and COICOP’2013 3-digit structures.
Legal basis
Legislation requiring the use of the classification:
- Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union Text with EEA relevance (pdf, 11 833 KB)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2094 of 28 October 2022 specifying the technical items of data sets, establishing the technical formats for transmission of information and specifying the detailed arrangements and content of the quality reports on the organisation of a sample survey in the consumption domain pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (pdf, 748 KB)
Old versions
The previous versions of the classification can be found here:
COICOP’2000 structure (xlsx, 17 KB)