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.

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)

621320 - Offices of Optometrists

This Canadian 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.

• Example Activities:

  • Clinics of optometrists
  • Optometrists, offices and clinics of