Customer classification
Subject matter and purpose
Customer classification supports institutions subject to reporting requirements in the classification of economic agents by sector and industry. For this purpose, a sectoral breakdown with explanations is published in the “Special Statistical Publication 2, Banking statistics, Customer classification” which corresponds to the classification used in the "European System of Accounts (ESA 2010)". The Special Statistical Publication 2 also contains a classification of the economy by sector and economic activity, the structure of which follows the Federal Statistical Office’s “Classification of Economic Activities (WZ 2008)”. This, in turn, is based on the “Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2)”.
The publication "Special Statistical Publication 2, Banking statistics, Customer classification" is updated every six months and is available for download here:
Company register
In addition to conceptual issues relating to sector and industry classification, the maintenance and quarterly publication of the company register is the task of cus-tomer classification. In order to make it easier for reporting institutions to classify large and cross-sector enterprises, updated sectoral information is therefore made available by public limited companies (share capital of €2.5 million or more, includ-ing enterprises in the legal form of a “European company”, societas Europaea, or SE for short) and private limited companies (share capital of €5 million or more) at the end of each quarter. The company register (in German only) can be downloaded under the following link:
Classifications
Below you will find the frameworks on which the customer classification is based.