Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) generator

Last modified: April 3, 2025

The Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) generator creates numeric codes that represent industries or business activities based on the SIC system. These codes, which are 3 or 4 digits long, classify businesses into specific sectors in economic analysis, reporting, and regulatory purposes.

Generator properties

The table provides key details about the generator, including the short name, sample of the generated data, the supported data types, and whether it is specific to a particular country.

Short name	Example of generated data	Data type matching	Country-specific
SIC Code	5139, 3354, 8231, 4400, 5983, …	character varyingcharactertextsmallintintegerbigintdecimal	Default

Matching rules

The generator can be assigned to a column that matches any of the following rules:

The column name is ‘sic’, regardless of the table name.
The column name starts with ‘industry’ or ‘SIC’ and ends with ‘code’, with any or no characters in between, regardless of the table name.

Configure additional options

The generator produces data based on a regular expression. Since it is built on the RegExp generator, see Regular Expression generator to customize settings and understand the correct usage of syntax.

The Text box displays a .csv file with the list of default SIC codes. The default path to the file is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Devart\dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL\Data Generators\SICCodes.csv.