The main industrial groupings (MIGs) provide an alternative statistical breakdown of the economic activities of industry, as compared to the sectoral breakdown of the Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE).
The MIGs effectively constitute an intermediate level between the NACE sections on the one hand and the NACE divisions and groups on the other hand. They represent a complementary perspective on economic activities, with divisions and groups rearranged in a way that is conducive to analyses oriented towards industry groupings.
There are five MIGs:
- intermediate goods;
- capital goods;
- consumer durables;
- consumer non-durables;
- energy.
These five groupings are not comparable in size; consumer durables, in particular, is smaller than the other ones.
The legal basis for the definitions of the MIGs is Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 (the European Business Statistics general implementing act; EBS GIA) which implements Regulation (EU) No 2019/2152 of 27 November 2019 (the European Business Statistics regulation). The definition of the MIGs was aligned with update 1 to NACE Revision 2 (NACE Rev. 2.1) through Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2024/1840 (the NACE 2.1 Implementing Act) which amended the EBS GIA.
The specific composition of these groupings in terms of NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 2.1 categories can be accessed in various formats via the ShowVoc catalogue:
- MIGs in terms of NACE Rev. 2.1 categories
- MIGs in terms of NACE Rev. 2 categories (file NACE_Rev.2_MIGs_Aggregates.xlsx)