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.

623 - Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care combined with either nursing, supervisory or other types of care as required by the residents. In this subsector, the facilities are a significant part of the production process and the care provided is a mix of health and social services, with the health component being largely nursing services.

6239 - Other Residential Care Facilities

This industry group comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing residential care, such as transition homes for women, homes for emotionally disturbed children, camps for delinquent youth, group foster homes, halfway group homes for delinquents and offenders, and orphanages.

62399 - Other Residential Care Facilities

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing residential care, such as transition homes for women, homes for emotionally disturbed children, camps for delinquent youth, group foster homes, halfway group homes for delinquents and offenders, and orphanages.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • the services of developmental handicap homes (See 62321 Residential Developmental Handicap Facilities)
    • the services of continuing care retirement communities and homes for the elderly (See 62331 Community Care Facilities for the Elderly)
    • emergency shelter provision (See 62422 Community Housing Services)
623991 - Transition Homes for Women

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing extended residential care to women who have been victims of violence. These establishments provide room, board, protective supervision, counselling services and other social services.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • providing emergency shelter of a short duration and without other services (See 62422 Community Housing Services)
  • Example Activities:

    • Homes for battered women
    • Transition homes for women (except short stay)
623992 - Homes for Emotionally Disturbed Children

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care to children with emotional problems. These establishments provide room, board and parental-type supervision, as well as additional specialized supervision and services required by these children.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • room and board services with supervision of a parental nature only (See 623999 All Other Residential Care Facilities)
  • Example Activities:

    • Homes for emotionally disturbed children
623993 - Homes for the Physically Handicapped or Disabled

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing residential care and the appropriate supervision and services to ambulant residents with physical handicaps or disabilities, such as visual impairments.

  • Example Activities:

    • Homes for the blind
    • Homes for the deaf
    • Homes for the deaf or blind
    • Homes for the physically disabled
    • Homes for the physically handicapped
623999 - All Other Residential Care Facilities

This Canadian industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other Canadian industry, primarily engaged in providing residential care.

  • Example Activities:

    • Boys' towns
    • Children's villages
    • Group foster homes
    • Halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
    • Homes for children in need of protection
    • Homes for single mothers
    • Juvenile correctional homes
    • Orphanages
    • Self-help group homes for persons with social or personal problems
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