All but one of the participants used some combination
of the North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS) and the Standard Occupational Classification
(SOC) systems. Separate analyses were produced for both
NAICS and SOC systems.
A total of 264 NAICS codes were represented within their
aggregate creative economy profiles. Seventy codes were
common to 50% or more of the reports indicating that
their community had a business that would be classi-
fied under those respective NAICS codes. These 70 codes
represent 26% of all codes used by the 25 reports that
used NAICS codes. Thirty-nine NAICS codes were common
to 75% or more of the reports. These 39 codes represent
15% of all of the NAICS codes found in our sample. The
reduction of codes from 70 to 39 between the 50% and
75% or more designations is spread proportionately
throughout with no marked differences. The industry
categories that are the most common are: