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.

6215 - Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing analytic or diagnostic services. These services are generally provided to the medical profession, or to the patient on referral from a health practitioner.

62151 - Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing analytic or diagnostic services. These services are generally provided to the medical profession, or to the patient on referral from a health practitioner.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • grinding lens to prescription (optical laboratories) (See 33911 Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing)
  • making dentures, artificial teeth and orthodontic appliances (dental laboratories) (See 33911 Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing)
  • making prescription orthopaedic or prosthetic appliances (orthopaedic laboratories) (See 33911 Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing)