the crs sector classification aims to responds to the question which specific area of the recipients economic or social structure is the transfer intended to foster traditionally only the primary sector of the activity was reported however it is possible that one activity can support multiple sectors in members at the working party on development finance statistics wpstat agreed to introduce a new system allowing multiple purpose code reporting to better track activities benefitting several sectors the introduction of this new system will facilitate more granular reporting as activities will be able to be split upon several sectors rather than only one sector and is expected to increase the quality of the data and provide better estimates of the aid volume targeting different sectors