North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2007 - Labour Force Survey

8.2 - Service-Producing Industries

This special aggregation comprises establishments coded to 'Wholesale Trade' (NAICS 41), 'Retail Trade' (NAICS 44-45), 'Transportation and storage' (NAICS 48-49), 'Information and Cultural Industries' (NAICS 51), 'Finance and Insurance' (NAICS 52), 'Real Estate and Rental and Leasing' (NAICS 53), 'Professional, Scientific and Technical Services' (NAICS 54), 'Management of Companies and Enterprises' (NAICS 55), 'Administrative and Support, Waste Management and Remediation Services' (NAICS 56), 'Educational Services' (NAICS 61), 'Health Care and Social Assistance' (NAICS 62), 'Arts, Entertainment and Recreation' (NAICS 71), 'Accommodation and Food Services' (NAICS 72), 'Other Services (except Public Administration)' (NAICS 81) and to 'Public Administration (NAICS 91)

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.

6216 - Home Health Care Services

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services in the home, combined with a range of other home services, such as personal care services, homemaker and companion services, physical therapy, medical social services, counselling, occupational and vocational therapy, dietary and nutritional services, speech therapy, audiology, medical equipment and supplies, medications and intravenous therapy. Only establishments that provide nursing services in combination with the other services listed are included.

62161 - Home Health Care Services

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services in the home, combined with a range of other home services, such as personal care services, homemaker and companion services, physical therapy, medical social services, counselling, occupational and vocational therapy, dietary and nutritional services, speech therapy, audiology, medical equipment and supplies, medications and intravenous therapy. Only establishments that provide nursing services in combination with the other services listed are included.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • home health care product renting or leasing (See 53229 Other Consumer Goods Rental)
  • physical, occupational, and speech therapy and audiology (See 62134 Offices of Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapists and Audiologists)
  • non-medical home care (See 62412 Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities)
  • in-home health services provided by health practitioners primarily engaged in the independent practice of their profession (classified with the profession)

621610 - Home Health Care Services

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services in the home, combined with a range of other home services, such as personal care services, homemaker and companion services, physical therapy, medical social services, counselling, occupational and vocational therapy, dietary and nutritional services, speech therapy, audiology, medical equipment and supplies, medications and intravenous therapy. Only establishments that provide nursing services in combination with the other services listed are included.

• Example Activities:

  • Home health care services
  • Home nursing services (except own-account-private practice)
  • Home physiotherapy services (except own-account-private practice)