"the wider category" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a more general group or type, as in the following example sentence: The study addressed the impact of the particular policy, but future research should be done to understand the effects on the wider category of policies.
Mr. Thein Sein on Tuesday signaled a more open procedure for the wider category of assets under consideration.
The purpose of this study is to present a new model that can assess the 'publicness' of not only public open spaces, but also of the wider category of publicly accessible places, called gathering places.
Supported housing is a sub-set of the wider category of social housing, offering support services intended to help people with a range of challenges live as independently as possible.
"Firstly we have a larger brand awareness with one of our target consumer groups in what is quickly becoming a crowded market space," says Randall. "Secondly, we have raised more awareness of the wider category, which has been mutually beneficial for both Magnitone and our retail partners to educate more consumers about facial cleansing devices".
The network is an important element of the wider category of "institution" and is a basic node in the district conceptual framework very significant for the policy approach (Borràs and Tsagdis 2008), from a scientific point of view.
All belong to the wider category "response to stimulus".
The author states that this approach is undertaken with the goal of examining Malory's treatment of his characters "as exemplars of virtue and vice, under the wider categories of kingship, knighthood, and womanhood" (p. xiii).
Bowery falls into the "wide" category, as it is over 75 feet.
For businesses, paying ransom or blackmail is likely to fall into the wide category of business expenses.
The Regions have taken different political approaches (not part of this analysis, as mentioned above) in dealing with the wide category of institutions which may be public, semi-public and private actors, also non-local, and their possible networks, which may be formal, semi-formal or informal.
One reason is that the capability metric is a general metric of well-being and well-being freedom, whereas the social primary goods metric emerges as one element of an integral and complex theory of political justice (rather than social justice more broadly, let alone the even wider category of moral evaluations).
