Archived - Standard Industrial Classification - Companies and Enterprises (SIC-C) 1980

N - Government Services

This sector consists of groupings of government entities considered equivalent to companies primarily engaged in providing services of a governmental nature. Many government entities engage in activities which are also carried out by non-government companies and, as a consequence government companies are classified in the same industrial category as their non-government counterparts. There are four types of government entities covered in this sector:
(a) entities engaged in activities of a purely governmental nature - national defence, public order and safety, immigration services, foreign affairs and international assistance, and general services which cover government activities (e.g. legislatures; taxation, etc.);
(b) entities which direct, support, control and otherwise administer activities carried on largely, but by no means exclusively, by non-government entities. These activities can be grouped into those which relate to the maintenance and development of human resources and those whose primary concern is with economic development;
(c) all local and regional governments which engage in a wide range of government and non-government activities;
(d) International and Other Extra-Territorial Government Agencies.