IREF686614false2026-04-04T02:11:08ZSDMX Cross Domain Concept SchemeThe Cross Domain Concept Scheme (starting from v2.0) is created from the set of concepts in the SDMX Glossary, which is an SDMX guideline containing concepts and related definitions that are useful for building and understanding data and metadata exchange arrangements based on SDMX. The Glossary provides definition of terms found in the SDMX Information Model, Data Structure Definitions (DSDs) and Metadata Structure Definitions (MSDs) at the time of the present release. It is recommended as a single entry point to a common SDMX terminology to be used in order to facilitate communication and understanding of the standard.In short, the overall message of the glossary is the following: if a term is used, then its precise meaning should correspond to the SDMX Glossary definition, and any reference to a particular phenomenon described in the SDMX Glossary should use the appropriate term.Version 1.0 of the SDMX Glossary, which replaces the Metadata Common Vocabulary (MCV) published in 2009, was finalised in February 2016. The Cross Domain Concept Scheme v1.0 was created from the MCV concepts.For any question, comment or correction, feel free to contact the SDMX Statistical Working Group (SWG) at the following address: swg@sdmx.org.CONTEXTThis concept is typically used in the SNA (System of National Accounts) where transactions are first analysed according to their nature, then, for certain sectors or kind of transactions, from the expenditure side, by purpose, answering the question "for what purpose"?. The classifications supporting this concept are the following: Classification of the functions of government (COFOG); Classification of individual consumption by purpose (COICOP); Classification of the purposes of non-profit institutions serving households (COPNI), and; Classification of outlays of producers by purpose (COPP). The main purpose of these classifications is to provide statistics which experience has shown to be of general interest for a wide variety of analytical uses. For example, COICOP shows items such as household expenditure on food, health and education services all of which are important indicators of national welfare; COFOG shows government expenditure on health, education, defence and so on and is also used to distinguish between collective services and individual consumption goods and services provided by government.TYPECross-domain conceptRECOMMENDED_REPRESENTATIONCode listSOURCESDMX (2016) (https://sdmx.org/)OTHER_LINKSCode lists CL, COFOG, CL_COICOP, CL_COPNI, CL_COPP (http://sdmx.org/?page_id=3215)CODELIST_IDCL_COFOG; CL_COICOP; CL_COPNI; CL_COPPExpenditure according to purposeBreakdown of spending by institutional sectors between major expenditure functions.