Published: 18.12.2020.
Updated: 25.05.2023.
Responsible authority
Central Statistical Bureau
Status
European Union
Abbreviation
ECOICOP
Purpose of introduction

Reflection of household individual consumption expenditure.
 

Classification object

Types of individual consumption.

Area of application
  • estimation of household final consumption for national accounts;
  • classification of types of household individual consumption expenditure in Household Budget Survey;
  • standardisation of consumer price indices estimates and provision of comparability thereof at European level.
Legal basis

Approved by the Regulation (EU) 2016/792 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on harmonised indices of consumer prices and the house price index, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 2494/95

Author

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

Planned update or revision

Update and revision are not planned. 

Availability
Coding system, code length, number of levels

Coding system – decimally hierarchical
Code length – five digits
Number of levels – 4

Description of levels
Level 1:  12 sections
Level 2:  47 groups
Level 3: 117 classes
Level 4: 303 sub-classes

Nataļja Dubkova

Section Head
+371 67366644
Natalja.Dubkova [at] csp.gov.lv