More U.S. economic data series incorporate the North American Industry Classification System. (Focus on Statistics). From: Business Economics | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Parker, Robert P. | COPYRIGHT 2003 The National Association of Business Economists. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Two previous articles in this column have reviewed the status of the incorporation by Federal statistical agencies of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to replace the Standard Industry Classification System (SIC).' This article describes the incorporation of NAICS last December by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) into the industrial production and capacity utilization indexes and by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) into the benchmark 1997 input-output ac...

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