Standard Classification of Countries and Areas of Interest (SCCAI) 2022

Release date: December 7, 2023

Status

This standard was approved as a departmental standard on June 13, 2023.

2022 version of SCCAI

The Standard Classification of Countries and Areas of Interest (SCCAI) 2022 is based on the international standard for country codes ISO 3166-1:2020^{Footnote 1}. All changes made as of December 31, 2022 are included in this version of the SCCAI. The list was also updated for consistency with Government of Canada norms.

In addition to the list of countries and areas of interest, classifications for social statistics and travel statistics data are included. The hierarchical structure of the classification shows the relationship between these geographic areas.

HTML format

• Introduction
• SCCAI 2022 - Classification structure

CSV format

• SCCAI 2022 - Classification structure (CSV, 7.42 KB)

PDF format

• SCCAI 2022 - Classification structure (PDF, 408.3 KB) (catalogue no. 12-608-X)

Concordances and documentation on changes

• SCCAI 2019 - SCCAI 2022
• Differences between SCCAI 2022 and ISO 3166-1:2020
• Current and Historical Countries and Areas of Interest

Variants of SCCAI

• Variant of the Standard Classification of Countries and Areas of Interest 2022 for Social Statistics
  ( CSV version - Variant of the SCCAI 2022 for Social Statistics (CSV, 16.93 KB) )
  The classification variant for social statistics includes customized groupings (geographical macro-regions and geographical sub-regions) of the SCCAI countries and areas of interest for the publication of social statistics data.
• Variant of the Standard Classification of Countries and Areas of Interest 2022 for Travel Statistics
  ( CSV version - Variant of the SCCAI 2022 for Travel Statistics (CSV, 16.92 KB) )
  The classification variant for travel statistics includes customized groupings (geographical macro-regions and geographical sub-regions) of the SCCAI countries for the publication of travel statistics data. This variant has been developed for the analysis of travel statistics. It is available to other program areas at Statistics Canada should it meet their needs, but there is no requirement for it to be used outside of the Tourism Statistics Program.