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

7 - Services-Producing Sector

14 - Health Care and Social Assistance

62 - Health Care and Social Assistance

This sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing health care by diagnosis and treatment, providing residential care for medical and social reasons, and providing social assistance, such as counselling, welfare, child protection, community housing and food services, vocational rehabilitation and child care, to those requiring such assistance.

621 - Ambulatory Health Care Services

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing health care services, directly or indirectly, to ambulatory patients. Health practitioners in this subsector provide out-patient services, in which the facilities and equipment are not usually the most significant part of the production process.

6213 - Offices of Other Health Practitioners

This industry group comprises establishments of health practitioners, except physicians and dentists. Offices, especially walk-in centres that accept patients without appointment and that often have extended office hours, are sometimes called clinics or centres.

62131 - Offices of Chiropractors

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the private or group practice of chiropractic medicine. These practitioners provide diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal and related disorders through the manipulation and adjustment of the spinal column and extremities.

62132 - Offices of Optometrists

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the private or group practice of optometry. These practitioners provide eye examinations to determine visual acuity or the presence of vision problems and to prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses and eye exercises. They may also perform those services provided by an optician, such as selling and fitting prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • prescription eyeglass and contact lens selling and fitting (See 44613 Optical Goods Stores)
62133 - Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing mental health services. Clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers and other mental health practitioners, who do not hold a doctorate degree in medicine, are included.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • providing treatment and diagnostic services by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists having a doctorate degree in medicine (See 62111 Offices of Physicians)
62134 - Offices of Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists and Audiologists

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in administering medically-prescribed physical therapy treatment; planning and administering educational, recreational and social activities designed to help patients with disabilities regain physical or mental functioning or to adapt to their disabilities; and diagnosing and treating speech, language or hearing problems.

62139 - Offices of All Other Health Practitioners

This industry comprises establishments of health practitioners, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing health services.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • general or specialized medicine or surgery (See 62111 Offices of Physicians)
    • dentistry (See 62121 Offices of Dentists)
    • chiropractic medicine (See 62131 Offices of Chiropractors)
    • optometry (See 62132 Offices of Optometrists)
    • mental health practising, except by physicians (See 62133 Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians))
    • physical, occupational, and speech therapy and audiology (See 62134 Offices of Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists and Audiologists)
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