Nursing and Residential Care Facility Survey (NRCFS)

Care facility resident of establishment, count

Care facility resident refers to a person that lives in a nursing or residential care facility to receive care and services. Care is defined as time mainly spent with residents, giving assistance, nursing care, guidance or any other forms of personal help to residents.

Establishment refers to the level in the statistical hierarchy below the company in the Business Register statistical hierarchy, and at which the accounting data required to measure production are available (principal inputs, revenues, salaries and wages). The establishment is defined as the most homogeneous unit of production for which the business maintains accounting records. From these records, it is possible to assemble all the data elements required to compile the gross value of production (total sales or shipments, and inventories), the cost of materials and services, and labour and capital used in production.

The data for this variable are reported using the following measurements:

• Whole number