Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

7 - Services-Producing Sector

12 - Business, building and other support services

56 - Administrative and Support, Waste Management and Remediation Services

This sector comprises two different types of establishments: those primarily engaged in activities that support the day-to-day operations of other organizations; and those primarily engaged in waste management activities.

The first type of establishment is engaged in activities such as administration, hiring and placing personnel, preparing documents, taking orders from clients, collecting payments for claims, arranging travel, providing security and surveillance, cleaning buildings, and packaging and labelling products. These activities are often undertaken, in-house, by establishments found in many sectors of the economy. The establishments classified to this sector specialize in one or more of these activities and can therefore provide services to clients in a variety of industries and, in some cases, to households.

Waste management establishments are engaged in the collection, treatment and disposal of waste material, the operation of material recovery facilities, the remediation of polluted sites and the cleaning of septic tanks.

561 - Administrative and Support Services

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in activities that support the day-to-day operations of other organizations. This includes activities such as administration, hiring and placing personnel, preparing documents, taking orders from clients, collecting payments for claims, arranging travel, providing security and surveillance, cleaning buildings, and packaging and labelling products. These activities are often undertaken in-house by establishments found in many sectors of the economy, but the establishments of this subsector specialize in one or more of these activities and can therefore provide services to clients in a variety of industries and, in some cases, to households. The individual industries of this subsector are defined on the basis of the particular process in which they are engaged and the particular services they provide.

5614 - Business Support Services

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing business support services, such as preparing documents, operating telephone call centres, operating business service centres, collecting unpaid claims, and providing credit information.

56141 - Document Preparation Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in writing, editing or proofreading documents; providing word processing or desktop publishing services; and providing stenographic (except court or stenographic reporting), transcription and other secretarial services.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • providing pre-press and post-press services in support of printing activities (See 32312 Support Activities for Printing)
  • providing translation services (See 54193 Translation and Interpretation Services)
  • reproducing documents (See 56143 Business Service Centres)
  • verbatim reporting and stenographic recording of live legal proceedings and transcribing subsequent recorded materials (See 56149 Other Business Support Services)

56142 - Telephone Call Centres

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in receiving and/or making telephone calls for others. These establishments are engaged in activities such as soliciting or providing information; promoting products or services; taking orders; and raising funds. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in answering telephone calls and relaying messages to clients; and establishments primarily engaged in providing voice mailbox services.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • providing paging services (See 51332 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite))
  • gathering, recording, tabulating, and presenting marketing and public opinion data (See 54191 Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling)
  • organizing and conducting fund-raising campaigns for others (See 56149 Other Business Support Services)

56143 - Business Service Centres

This industry comprises establishments, known as copy shops, establishments primarily engaged in providing mailbox rental and other postal and mailing services (except direct-mail advertising), and establishments that provide a range of office support services, such as mailing services, copying services, facsimile services, word processing services, on-site personal computer (PC) rental services and office product retailing.

• Exclusion(s):

  • commercial or quick printers (See 32311 Printing)

• and

  establishments primarily engaged in:

  • providing direct mail advertising services (See 54186 Direct Mail Advertising)
  • providing voice mailbox services (See 56142 Telephone Call Centres)

56144 - Collection Agencies

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in collecting payment for claims and remitting these payments to their clients..

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • purchasing accounts receivables and assuming the risk of collection and credit losses (See 522299 All Other Non-Depository Credit Intermediation)

56145 - Credit Bureaus

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in compiling information, such as credit and employment histories on individuals and credit histories on businesses, and providing the information to financial institutions, retailers and others who have a need to evaluate the credit worthiness of these persons and businesses. This industry also includes establishments providing credit investigation services.

56149 - Other Business Support Services

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing other business support services.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • writing, editing and document preparation services (See 56141 Document Preparation Services)
  • telephone answering or telemarketing services (See 56142 Telephone Call Centres)
  • providing photocopying and mailbox services (See 56143 Business Service Centres)
  • providing collection services (See 56144 Collection Agencies)
  • providing credit reporting services (See 56145 Credit Bureaus)