The New Zealand Standard Classification by Broad Economic Categories (NZBEC) is designed to convert data compiled on the Standard International Trade Classification Revision 3 (SITC Rev 3), to meaningful aggregates of the end-use of goods, based on the System of National Accounts (SNA) concepts. An objective of the NZBEC is to provide categories which can be aligned with the basic classes of the SNA; capital goods, intermediate goods and consumer goods.