"NAPCS provides a comprehensive demand/market-oriented classification framework for services and goods. The intent of NAPCS is for use as a shared reference classification throughout the statistical communities of the United States, Canada, and Mexico for collection, tabulation, and analysis of data on the value of products produced by both goods- and services-producing industries and on the prices charged for those products"--Frequently asked questions about NAPCS file.

2017 Beta 1.0 edition known also as: Initial version.

"NACPS will be reviewed for revision every five years"--Frequently asked questions about NAPCS file.

CRDP Project record.

Description based on: 2017 Beta 1.0 version, last revised March 23, 2016; title from Main page title screen (Census Bureau, viewed Nov. 4, 2016).