The current UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) used in classifying business establishments and other statistical units by the type of economic activity in which they are engaged. Information on the UK SIC is accessible here.
The code in this repository converts the SIC 2007 "Summary of Structure" table released by ONS to a wide-format table to use in analysis.
The final table is exported in .csv. Variables (codes classification) in the table include: Section (letter), Division (2-digit code), Group (3-digit codes), Class (4-digit codes) and Sub-class (5-digit codes).
Folder industries includes data and R code to harmonise ONS Sections with Industries (including Manufacturing).