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INTRODUCTION

The SIC/Standard Industrial Classification System describes and categorizes businesses by their revenue producing activity.

Review of the SIC 2-digit, 4-digit and 2+2 digit systems as well as the NAICS system for describing businesses is provided at the end of this page.
Click HERE to go to OSHA's web site to see the expanded list.
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On this page, for convenience and clarity, the HARRIS Marketing, Inc. SIC list at the 4-digit level follows:

REVIEW OF THE SIC AND NAICS SYSTEMS
FOR DESCRIBING BUSINESSES:

The Standard Industrial Classification System, better known as the SIC system, is developed and maintained by the United States Government - Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, and the Department of Labor.

The system describes businesses and not-for-profit organizations by type of activity. The SIC system provides numerical coding and classification of the market place as a standard method to define, describe and analyze the economy. It is the standard coding system to define and analyze industry structure. It is used by analysts, planners, business strategists and business marketers for a variety of applications, such as marketing, economic analysis, sales forecasting and merger/acquisition analysis.

The SIC system consists of a general 2-digit system with more detail at a 4-digit level. Dun & Bradstreet has developed and applied an additional 2+2 extension to its business database.

For further detail, the SIC list at the 2-digit level, along with expanded, hyperlinked detail at the 4-digit level can be found by clicking this link:
OSHA's web site.
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As further information about numerical business categorization, the SIC system is periodically revised to reflect changes in the structure of the economy. An emerging coding system is the NAICS/North American Industry Classification System. This coding system provides a construct for describing new industries - most notably the information technology industry; however, it is important to note that the application of a new coding system is most useful when it is uniformly applied to names and addresses of businesses. Just because a coding system exists, it doesn't mean that selecting in that coding system is practical when using large, compiled databases. For this reason, the SIC system continues as the coding system for marketers. For further information on NAICS, the cross-over table from SIC codes to NAICS can be found by clicking this link:
U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 NAICS Matched to 1987 SIC Sectors and Subsectors.
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