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.

624 - Social Assistance

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing a wide variety of assistance services directly to their clients. These services do not include residential or accommodation services, except on a short-stay basis.

6241 - Individual and Family Services

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing non-residential, individual and family, social assistance services.

62412 - Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing non-residential social assistance services to improve the quality of life for the elderly, the developmentally handicapped or persons with disabilities. These establishments provide for the welfare of these individuals in such areas as day-care, non-medical home care, social activities, group support and companionship.

  • Exclusion(s):

    Establishments primarily engaged in:

    • job training for persons with disabilities and the developmentally handicapped (See 62431 Vocational Rehabilitation Services)
624120 - Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing non-residential social assistance services to improve the quality of life for the elderly, the developmentally handicapped or persons with disabilities. These establishments provide for the welfare of these individuals in such areas as day-care, non-medical home care, social activities, group support and companionship.

  • Example Activities:

    • Adult day-care centres
    • Day care centres, adult and handicapped
    • Home care of elderly
    • Home-maker services
    • Senior citizen centres
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