There are 92 Economic Activities in all levels that containg the word "SERVICES" in their name or detailed description. Have you that what you are searching for?
- Class 0162
Support activities for animal production
This class includes:
~ agricultural activities on a fee or contract basis:
~ activities to promote propagation, growth and output of animals
~ herd testing SERVICES, droving SERVICES, agistment SERVICES, poultry caponizing, coop cleaning etc.
~ activities related to artificial insemination
~ stud services
~ sheep shearing
~ farm animal boarding and care
This class also includes:
~ activities of farriers
- Class 0240
Support SERVICES to forestry
This class includes carrying out part of the forestry operation on a fee or contract basis.
This class includes:
~ forestry service activities:
~ forestry inventories
~ forest management consulting services
~ timber evaluation
~ forest fire fighting and protection
~ forest pest control
~ logging service activities:
~ transport of logs within the forest
- Class 5621
Event catering
This class includes the provision of food SERVICES based on contractual arrangements with the customer, at the location specified by the customer, for a specific event.
This class includes:
~ event catering
- Class 0910
Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
This class includes:
~ oil and gas extraction service activities provided on a fee or contract basis:
~ exploration SERVICES in connection with petroleum or gas extraction, e.g. traditional prospecting methods, such as making geological observations at prospective sites
~ directional drilling and redrilling; spudding in; derrick erection in situ, repairing and dismantling; cementing oil and gas well casings; pumping of wells; plugging and abandoning wells etc.
~ liquefaction and regasification of natural gas for purpose of transport, done at the mine site
~ draining and pumping SERVICES, on a fee or contract basis
~ test drilling in connection with petroleum or gas extraction
This class also includes:
~ oil and gas field fire fighting services
- Class 0990
Support activities for other mining and quarrying
This class includes:
~ support SERVICES on a fee or contract basis, required for mining activities of divisions 05, 07 and 08
~ exploration SERVICES, e.g. traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites
~ draining and pumping SERVICES, on a fee or contract basis
~ test drilling and test hole boring
- Class 1812
Service activities related to printing
This class includes:
~ binding of printed sheets, e.g. into books, brochures, magazines, catalogues etc., by folding, assembling, stitching, glueing, collating, basting, adhesive binding, trimming, gold stamping
~ composition, typesetting, phototypesetting, pre-press data input including scanning and optical character recognition, electronic make-up
~ plate-making SERVICES including imagesetting and plate-setting (for the printing processes letterpress and offset)
~ engraving or etching of cylinders for gravure
~ plate processes direct to plate (also photopolymer plates)
~ preparation of plates and dies for relief stamping or printing
~ production of proofs
~ artistic work including preparation of litho stones and prepared woodblocks
~ production of reprographic products
~ design of printing products e.g. sketches, layouts, dummies etc.
~ other graphic activities such as die-sinking or die-stamping, Braille copying, punching and drilling, embossing, varnishing and laminating, collating and insetting, creasing
- Class 3600
Water collection, treatment and supply
This class includes water collection, treatment and distribution activities for domestic and industrial needs. Collection of water from various sources, as well as distribution by various means is included.
The operation of irrigation canals is also included; however the provision of irrigation SERVICES through sprinklers, and similar agricultural support SERVICES, is not included.
This class includes:
~ collection of water from rivers, lakes, wells etc.
~ collection of rain water
~ purification of water for water supply purposes
~ treatment of water for industrial and other purposes
~ desalting of sea or ground water to produce water as the principal product of interest
~ distribution of water through mains, by trucks or other means
~ operation of irrigation canals
- Class 6399
Other information service activities n.e.c.
This class includes other information service activities not elsewhere classified, such as:
~ telephone based information services
~ information search SERVICES on a contract or fee basis
~ news clipping SERVICES, press clipping SERVICES, etc.
- Class 3312
Repair of machinery
This class includes the repair and maintenance of industrial machinery and equipment like sharpening or installing commercial and industrial machinery blades and saws; the provision of welding (e.g. automotive, general) repair services; the repair of agricultural and other heavy and industrial machinery and equipment (e.g. forklifts and other materials handling equipment, machine tools, commercial refrigeration equipment, construction equipment and mining machinery), comprising machinery and equipment of division 28.
This class includes:
~ repair and maintenance of non-automotive engines, e.g. ship or rail engines
~ repair and maintenance of pumps and related equipment
~ repair and maintenance of fluid power equipment
~ repair of valves
~ repair of gearing and driving elements
~ repair and maintenance of industrial process furnaces
~ repair and maintenance of materials handling equipment
~ repair and maintenance of commercial refrigeration equipment and air purifying equipment
~ repair and maintenance of commercial-type general-purpose machinery
~ repair of other power-driven hand-tools
~ repair and maintenance of metal cutting and metal forming machine tools and accessories
~ repair and maintenance of other machine tools
~ repair and maintenance of agricultural tractors
~ repair and maintenance of agricultural machinery and forestry and logging machinery
~ repair and maintenance of metallurgy machinery
~ repair and maintenance of mining, construction, and oil and gas field machinery
~ repair and maintenance of food, beverage, and tobacco processing machinery
~ repair and maintenance of textile apparel, and leather production machinery
~ repair and maintenance of papermaking machinery
~ repair and maintenance of other special-purpose machinery of division 28
~ repair and maintenance of weighing equipment
~ repair and maintenance of vending machines
~ repair and maintenance of cash registers
~ repair and maintenance of photocopy machines
~ repair of calculators, electronic or not
~ repair of typewriters
- Class 3900
Remediation activities and other waste management services
This class includes:
~ decontamination of soils and groundwater at the place of pollution, either in situ or ex situ, using e.g. mechanical, chemical or biological methods
~ decontamination of industrial plants or sites, including nuclear plants and sites
~ decontamination and cleaning up of surface water following accidental pollution, e.g. through collection of pollutants or through application of chemicals
~ cleaning up of oil spills and other pollutions on land, in surface water, in ocean and seas, including coastal areas
~ asbestos, lead paint, and other toxic material abatement
~ clearing of landmines and the like (including detonation)
~ other specialized pollution-control activities
- Class 6512
Non-life insurance
This class includes:
~ provision of insurance SERVICES other than life insurance:
~ accident and fire insurance
~ health insurance
~ travel insurance
~ property insurance
~ motor, marine, aviation and transport insurance
~ pecuniary loss and liability insurance
- Class 6621
Risk and damage evaluation
This class includes the provision of administration SERVICES of insurance, such as assessing and settling insurance claims.
This class includes:
~ assessing insurance claims
~ claims adjusting
~ risk assessing
~ risk and damage evaluation
~ average and loss adjusting
~ settling insurance claims
- Class 5223
Service activities incidental to air transportation
This class includes:
~ activities related to air transport of passengers, animals or freight:
~ operation of terminal facilities such as airway terminals etc.
~ airport and air-traffic-control activities
~ ground service activities on airfields etc.
This class also includes:
~ firefighting and fire-prevention SERVICES at airports
- Class 5310
Postal activities
This class includes the activities of postal SERVICES operating under a universal service obligation. The activities include use of the universal service infrastructure, including retail locations, sorting and processing facilities, and carrier routes to pickup and deliver the mail. The delivery can include letter-post, i.e. letters, postcards, printed papers (newspaper, periodicals, advertising items, etc.), small packets, goods or documents. Also included are other SERVICES necessary to support the universal service obligation.
This class includes:
~ pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic or international) of letter-post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by postal SERVICES operating under a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via public transport.
~ collection of letter-mail and parcels from public letter-boxes or from post offices
~ distribution and delivery of mail and parcels
- Class 5320
Courier activities
This class includes courier activities not operating under a universal service obligation.
This class includes:
~ pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic or international) of letter-post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by firms not operating under a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via public transport.
~ distribution and delivery of mail and parcels
This class also includes:
~ home delivery services
- Class 6629
Other activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding
This class includes:
~ activities involved in or closely related to insurance and pension funding (except claims adjusting and activities of insurance agents):
~ salvage administration
~ actuarial services
- Class 5510
Short term accommodation activities
This class includes the provision of accommodation, typically on a daily or weekly basis, principally for short stay by visitors. This includes the provision of furnished accommodation in guest rooms and suites or complete self-contained units with kitchens, with or without daily or other regular housekeeping SERVICES, and may often include a range of additional SERVICES such as food and beverage SERVICES, parking, laundry SERVICES, swimming pools and exercise rooms, recreational facilities and conference and convention facilities.
This class includes the provision of short-term accommodation provided by:
~ hotels
~ resort hotels
~ suite / apartment hotels
~ motels
~ motor hotels
~ guesthouses
~ pensions
~ bed and breakfast units
~ visitor flats and bungalows
~ time-share units
~ holiday homes
~ chalets, housekeeping cottages and cabins
~ youth hostels and mountain refuges
- Class 5610
Restaurants and mobile food service activities
This class includes the provision of food SERVICES to customers, whether they are served while seated or serve themselves from a display of items, whether they eat the prepared meals on the premises, take them out or have them delivered. This includes the preparation and serving of meals for immediate consumption from motorized vehicles or non-motorized carts.
This class includes activities of:
~ restaurants
~ cafeterias
~ fast-food restaurants
~ pizza delivery
~ take-out eating places
~ ice cream truck vendors
~ mobile food carts
~ food preparation in market stalls
This class also includes:
~ restaurant and bar activities connected to transportation, when carried out by separate units
- Class 5629
Other food service activities
This class includes industrial catering, i.e. the provision of food SERVICES based on contractual arrangements with the customer, for a specific period of time.
Also included is the operation of food concessions at sports and similar facilities. The food is often prepared in a central unit.
This class includes:
~ activities of food service contractors (e.g. for transportation companies)
~ operation of food concessions at sports and similar facilities
~ operation of canteens or cafeterias (e.g. for factories, offices, hospitals or schools) on a concession basis
- Class 7911
Travel agency activities
This class includes:
~ activities of agencies primarily engaged in selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation SERVICES to the general public and commercial clients
- Class 8550
Educational support activities
This class includes:
~ provision of non-instructional SERVICES that support educational processes or systems:
~ educational consulting
~ educational guidance counseling services
~ educational testing evaluation services
~ educational testing services
~ organization of student exchange programs
- Class 6110
Wired telecommunications activities
This class includes:
~ operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound and video using a wired telecommunications infrastructure, including:
~ operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide point-to-point communications via landlines, microwave or a combination of landlines and satellite linkups
~ operating of cable distribution systems (e.g. for distribution of data and television signals)
~ furnishing telegraph and other non-vocal communications using own facilities
The transmission facilities that carry out these activities, may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.
This class also includes:
~ purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing telecommunications SERVICES using this capacity to businesses and households
~ provision of Internet access by the operator of the wired infrastructure
- Class 6120
Wireless telecommunications activities
This class includes:
~ operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, sound, and video using a wireless telecommunications infrastructure
~ maintaining and operating paging as well as cellular and other wireless telecommunications networks
The transmission facilities provide omni-directional transmission via airwaves and may be based on a single technology or a combination of technologies.
This class also includes:
~ purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of networks and providing wireless telecommunications SERVICES (except satellite) using this capacity to businesses and households
~ provision of Internet access by the operator of the wireless infrastructure
- Class 6190
Other telecommunications activities
This class includes:
~ provision of specialized telecommunications applications, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operations
~ operation of satellite terminal stations and associated facilities operationally connected with one or more terrestrial communications systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to or receiving telecommunications from satellite systems
~ provision of Internet access over networks between the client and the ISP not owned or controlled by the ISP, such as dial-up Internet access etc.
~ provision of telephone and Internet access in facilities open to the public
~ provision of telecommunications SERVICES over existing telecom connections:
~ VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) provision
~ telecommunications resellers (i.e. purchasing and reselling network capacity without providing additional services)
- Class 6202
Computer consultancy and computer facilities management activities
This class includes:
~ planning and designing of computer systems that integrate computer hardware, software and communication technologies
The units classified in this class may provide the hardware and software components of the system as part of their integrated SERVICES or these components may be provided by third parties or vendors. The units classified in this class often install the system and train and support the users of the system.
This class also includes:
~ provision of on-site management and operation of clients' computer systems and/or data processing facilities, as well as related support services
- Class 6311
Data processing, hosting and related activities
This class includes:
~ provision of infrastructure for hosting, data processing SERVICES and related activities
~ specialized hosting activities such as:
~ Web hosting
~ streaming services
~ application hosting
~ application service provisioning
~ general time-share provision of mainframe facilities to clients
~ data processing activities:
~ complete processing of data supplied by clients
~ generation of specialized reports from data supplied by clients
~ provision of data entry services
- Class 6430
Trusts, funds and similar financial entities
This class includes legal entities organized to pool securities or other financial assets, without managing, on behalf of shareholders or beneficiaries. The portfolios are customized to achieve specific investment characteristics, such as diversification, risk, rate of return and price volatility. These entities earn interest, dividends and other property income, but have little or no employment and no revenue from the sale of SERVICES.
This class includes:
~ open-end investment funds
~ closed-end investment funds
~ trusts, estates or agency accounts, administered on behalf of the beneficiaries under the terms of a trust agreement, will or agency agreement
~ unit investment trust funds
- Class 6619
Other activities auxiliary to financial service activities
This class includes activities auxiliary to financial service activities not elsewhere classified, such as:
~ financial transaction processing and settlement activities, including for credit card transactions
~ investment advisory SERVICES
~ activities of mortgage advisers and brokers
This class also includes:
~ trustee, fiduciary and custody SERVICES on a fee or contract basis
- Class 6820
Real estate activities on a fee or contract basis
This class includes the provision of real estate activities on a fee or contract basis including real estate related SERVICES.
This class includes:
~ activities of real estate agents and brokers
~ intermediation in buying, selling and renting of real estate on a fee or contract basis
~ management of real estate on a fee or contract basis
~ appraisal SERVICES for real estate
~ activities of real estate escrow agents
- Class 7020
Management consultancy activities
This class includes the provision of advice, guidance and operational assistance to businesses and other organizations on management issues, such as strategic and organizational planning; decision areas that are financial in nature; marketing objectives and policies; human resource policies, practices and planning; production scheduling and control planning.
This provision of business SERVICES may include advice, guidance or operational assistance to businesses and the public service regarding:
~ public relations and communication
~ lobbying activities
~ design of accounting methods or procedures, cost accounting programmes, budgetary control procedures
~ advice and help to businesses and public SERVICES in planning, organization, efficiency and control, management information etc.
- Class 7110
Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy
This class includes the provision of architectural SERVICES, engineering SERVICES, drafting SERVICES, building inspection SERVICES and surveying and mapping SERVICES and the like.
This class includes:
~ architectural consulting activities:
~ building design and drafting
~ town and city planning and landscape architecture
~ engineering design (i.e. applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design of machines, materials, instruments, structures, processes and systems) and consulting activities for:
~ machinery, industrial processes and industrial plant
~ projects involving civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, traffic engineering
~ water management projects
~ projects elaboration and realization relative to electrical and electronic engineering, mining engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical, industrial and systems engineering, safety engineering
~ project management activities related to construction
~ elaboration of projects using air conditioning, refrigeration, sanitary and pollution control engineering, acoustical engineering etc.
~ geophysical, geologic and seismic surveying
~ geodetic surveying activities:
~ land and boundary surveying activities
~ hydrologic surveying activities
~ subsurface surveying activities
~ cartographic and spatial information activities
- Class 7310
Advertising
This class includes the provision of a full range of advertising SERVICES (i.e. through in-house capabilities or subcontracting), including advice, creative SERVICES, production of advertising material, media planning and buying.
This class includes:
~ creation and realization of advertising campaigns:
~ creating and placing advertising in newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, the Internet and other media
~ creating and placing of outdoor advertising, e.g. billboards, panels, bulletins and frames, window dressing, showroom design, car and bus carding etc.
~ media representation, i.e. sale of time and space for various media soliciting advertising
~ aerial advertising
~ distribution or delivery of advertising material or samples
~ provision of advertising space on billboards etc.
~ creation of stands and other display structures and sites
~ conducting marketing campaigns and other advertising SERVICES aimed at attracting and retaining customers:
~ promotion of products
~ point-of-sale marketing
~ direct mail advertising
~ marketing consulting
- Class 8010
Private security activities
This class includes the provision of one or more of the following: guard and patrol SERVICES, picking up and delivering money, receipts or other valuable items with personnel and equipment to protect such properties while in transit.
This class includes:
~ armored car services
~ bodyguard services
~ polygraph services
~ fingerprinting services
~ security guard services
- Class 8110
Combined facilities support activities
This class includes:
~ provision of a combination of support SERVICES within a client's facility, such as general interior cleaning, maintenance, trash disposal, guard and security, mail routing, reception, laundry and related SERVICES to support operations within facilities
Units classified here provide operating staff to carry out these support activities, but are not involved with or responsible for the core business or activities of the client.
- Class 8211
Combined office administrative service activities
This class includes:
~ provision of a combination of day-to-day office administrative SERVICES, such as reception, financial planning, billing and record keeping, personnel and physical distribution (mail services) and logistics for others on a contract or fee basis.
- Class 8219
Photocopying, document preparation and other specialized office support activities
This class includes a variety of copying, document preparation and specialized office support activities. The document copying/printing activities included here cover only short-run type printing activities.
This class includes:
~ document preparation
~ document editing or proofreading
~ typing, word processing, or desktop publishing
~ secretarial support services
~ transcription of documents, and other secretarial services
~ letter or resume writing
~ provision of mailbox rental and other mailing activities (except direct mail advertising)
~ photocopying
~ duplicating
~ blueprinting
~ other document copying SERVICES without also providing printing SERVICES, such as offset printing, quick printing, digital printing, prepress services
- Class 8220
Activities of call centres
This class includes:
~ activities of inbound call centres, answering calls from clients by using human operators, automatic call distribution, computer telephone integration, interactive voice response systems or similar methods to receive orders, provide product information, deal with customer requests for assistance or address customer complaints
~ activities of outbound call centers using similar methods to sell or market goods or SERVICES to potential customers, undertake market research or public opinion polling and similar activities for clients
- Class 8299
Other business support service activities n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ providing verbatim reporting and stenotype recording of live legal proceedings and transcribing subsequent recorded materials, such as:
~ court reporting or stenotype recording services
~ public stenography services
~ real-time (i.e. simultaneous) closed captioning of live television performances of meetings, conferences
~ address bar coding services
~ bar code imprinting services
~ fundraising organization SERVICES on a contract or fee basis
~ mail presorting services
~ repossession services
~ parking meter coin collection services
~ activities of independent auctioneers
~ administration of loyalty programmes
~ other support activities typically provided to businesses not elsewhere classified
- Class 8411
General public administration activities
This class includes:
~ executive and legislative administration of central, regional and local bodies
~ administration and supervision of fiscal affairs:
~ operation of taxation schemes
~ duty/tax collection on goods and tax violation investigation
~ customs administration
~ budget implementation and management of public funds and public debt:
~ raising and receiving of moneys and control of their disbursement
~ administration of overall (civil) R&D policy and associated funds
~ administration and operation of overall economic and social planning and statistical SERVICES at the various levels of government
- Class 8412
Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural SERVICES and other social SERVICES, excluding social security
This class includes:
~ public administration of programmes aimed to increase personal well-being:
~ health
~ education
~ culture
~ sport
~ recreation
~ environment
~ housing
~ social services
~ public administration of R&D policies and associated funds for these areas
This class also includes:
~ sponsoring of recreational and cultural activities
~ distribution of public grants to artists
~ administration of potable water supply programmes
~ administration of waste collection and disposal operations
~ administration of environmental protection programmes
~ administration of housing programmes
- Class 8421
Foreign affairs
This class includes:
~ administration and operation of the ministry of foreign affairs and diplomatic and consular missions stationed abroad or at offices of international organizations
~ administration, operation and support for information and cultural SERVICES intended for distribution beyond national boundaries
~ aid to foreign countries, whether or not routed through international organizations
~ provision of military aid to foreign countries
~ management of foreign trade, international financial and foreign technical affairs
- Class 8423
Public order and safety activities
This class includes:
~ administration and operation of regular and auxiliary police forces supported by public authorities and of port, border, coastguards and other special police forces, including traffic regulation, alien registration, maintenance of arrest records
~ firefighting and fire prevention:
~ administration and operation of regular and auxiliary fire brigades in fire prevention, firefighting, rescue of persons and animals, assistance in civic disasters, floods, road accidents etc.
~ administration and operation of administrative civil and criminal law courts, military tribunals and the judicial system, including legal representation and advice on behalf of the government or when provided by the government in cash or services
~ rendering of judgements and interpretations of the law
~ arbitration of civil actions
~ prison administration and provision of correctional SERVICES, including rehabilitation SERVICES, regardless of whether their administration and operation is done by government units or by private units on a contract or fee basis
~ provision of supplies for domestic emergency use in case of peacetime disasters
- Class 8610
Hospital activities
This class includes:
~ short- or long-term hospital activities, i.e. medical, diagnostic and treatment activities, of general hospitals (e.g. community and regional hospitals, hospitals of non-profit organizations, university hospitals, military-base and prison hospitals) and specialized hospitals (e.g. mental health and substance abuse hospitals, hospitals for infectious diseases, maternity hospitals, specialized sanatoriums)
The activities are chiefly directed to inpatients, are carried out under the direct supervision of medical doctors and include:
~ SERVICES of medical and paramedical staff
~ SERVICES of laboratory and technical facilities, including radiologic and anaesthesiologic services
~ emergency room services
~ provision of operating room SERVICES, pharmacy SERVICES, food and other hospital services
~ SERVICES of family planning centres providing medical treatment such as sterilization and termination of pregnancy, with accommodation
- Class 8620
Medical and dental practice activities
This class includes:
~ medical consultation and treatment in the field of general and specialized medicine by general practitioners and medical specialists and surgeons
~ dental practice activities of a general or specialized nature, e.g. dentistry, endodontic and pediatric dentistry; oral pathology
~ orthodontic activities
~ family planning centres providing medical treatment, such as sterilization and termination of pregnancy, without accommodation
These activities can be carried out in private practice, group practices and in hospital outpatient clinics, and in clinics such as those attached to firms, schools, homes for the aged, labour organizations and fraternal organizations, as well as in patients' homes.
This class also includes:
~ dental activities in operating rooms
~ private consultants' SERVICES to inpatients
- Class 8690
Other human health activities
This class includes:
~ activities for human health not performed by hospitals or by medical doctors or dentists:
~ activities of nurses, midwives, physiotherapists or other paramedical practitioners in the field of optometry, hydrotherapy, medical massage, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropody, homeopathy, chiropractice, acupuncture etc.
These activities may be carried out in health clinics such as those attached to firms, schools, homes for the aged, labour organizations and fraternal organizations and in residential health facilities other than hospitals, as well as in own consulting rooms, patients' homes or elsewhere. These activities do not involve medical treatment.
This class also includes:
~ activities of dental paramedical personnel such as dental therapists, school dental nurses and dental hygienists, who may work remote from, but are periodically supervised by, the dentist
~ activities of medical laboratories such as:
~ X-ray laboratories and other diagnostic imaging centres
~ blood analysis laboratories
~ activities of blood banks, sperm banks, transplant organ banks etc.
~ ambulance transport of patients by any mode of transport including airplanes. These SERVICES are often provided during a medical emergency.
- Class 8730
Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
This class includes the provision of residential and personal care SERVICES for the elderly and disabled who are unable to fully care for themselves and/or who do not desire to live independently. The care typically includes room, board, supervision, and assistance in daily living, such as housekeeping SERVICES. In some instances these units provide skilled nursing care for residents in separate on-site facilities.
This class includes:
~ activities of:
~ assisted-living facilities
~ continuing care retirement communities
~ homes for the elderly with minimal nursing care
~ rest homes without nursing care
- Class 8790
Other residential care activities
This class includes the provision of residential and personal care SERVICES for persons, except the elderly and disabled, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not desire to live independently.
This class includes:
~ activities provided on a round-the-clock basis directed to provide social assistance to children and special categories of persons with some limits on ability for self-care, but where medical treatment or education are not important elements:
~ orphanages
~ children's boarding homes and hostels
~ temporary homeless shelters
~ institutions that take care of unmarried mothers and their children
The activities may be carried out by public or private organizations.
This class also includes:
~ activities of:
~ halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
~ halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
~ disciplinary camps
- Class 8810
Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
This class includes:
~ social, counselling, welfare, referral and similar SERVICES which are aimed at the elderly and disabled in their homes or elsewhere and carried out by public or by private organizations, national or local self-help organizations and by specialists providing counselling services:
~ visiting of the elderly and disabled
~ day-care activities for the elderly or for handicapped adults
~ vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities for disabled persons provided that the education component is limited
- Class 8890
Other social work activities without accommodation
This class includes:
~ social, counselling, welfare, refugee, referral and similar SERVICES which are delivered to individuals and families in their homes or elsewhere and carried out by public or by private organizations, disaster relief organizations and national or local self-help organizations and by specialists providing counselling services:
~ welfare and guidance activities for children and adolescents
~ adoption activities, activities for the prevention of cruelty to children and others
~ household budget counselling, marriage and family guidance, credit and debt counselling services
~ community and neighbourhood activities
~ activities for disaster victims, refugees, immigrants etc., including temporary or extended shelter for them
~ vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities for unemployed persons provided that the education component is limited
~ eligibility determination in connection with welfare aid, rent supplements or food stamps
~ child day-care activities, including for handicapped children
~ day facilities for the homeless and other socially weak groups
~ charitable activities like fund-raising or other supporting activities aimed at social work
- Class 9000
Creative, arts and entertainment activities
This class includes the operation of facilities and provision of SERVICES to meet the cultural and entertainment interests of their customers. This includes the production and promotion of, and participation in, live performances, events or exhibits intended for public viewing; the provision of artistic, creative or technical skills for the production of artistic products and live performances.
This class includes:
~ production of live theatrical presentations, concerts and opera or dance productions and other stage productions:
~ activities of groups, circuses or companies, orchestras or bands
~ activities of individual artists such as authors, actors, directors, musicians, lecturers or speakers, stage-set designers and builders etc.
~ operation of concert and theatre halls and other arts facilities
~ activities of sculptors, painters, cartoonists, engravers, etchers etc.
~ activities of individual writers, for all subjects including fictional writing, technical writing etc.
~ activities of independent journalists
~ restoring of works of art such as paintings etc.
This class also includes:
~ activities of producers or entrepreneurs of arts live events, with or without facilities
- Class 9101
Library and archives activities
This class includes:
~ documentation and information activities of libraries of all kinds, reading, listening and viewing rooms, public archives providing service to the general public or to a special clientele, such as students, scientists, staff, members as well as operation of government archives:
~ organization of a collection, whether specialized or not
~ cataloguing collections
~ lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art etc.
~ retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests etc.
~ stock photo libraries and services
- Class 9491
Activities of religious organizations
This class includes:
~ activities of religious organizations or individuals providing SERVICES directly to worshippers in churches, mosques, temples, synagogues or other places
~ activities of organizations providing monastery and convent services
~ religious retreat activities
This class also includes:
~ religious funeral service activities
- Class 9609
Other personal service activities n.e.c.
This class includes:
~ activities of Turkish baths, sauna and steam baths, solariums, reducing and slendering salons, massage salons etc.
~ astrological and spiritualists' activities
~ social activities such as escort SERVICES, dating SERVICES, SERVICES of marriage bureaux
~ pet care SERVICES such as boarding, grooming, sitting and training pets
~ genealogical organizations
~ shoe shiners, porters, valet car parkers etc.
~ concession operation of coin-operated personal service machines (photo booths, weighing machines, machines for checking blood pressure, coin-operated lockers etc.)
- Class 9820
Undifferentiated service-producing activities of private households for own use
This class includes:
~ undifferentiated subsistence SERVICES,producing activities of households, i.e. the activities of households that are engaged in a variety of activities that produce SERVICES for their own subsistence. These activities include cooking, teaching, caring for household members and other SERVICES produced by the household for its own subsistence.
If households are also engaged in the production of multiple goods for subsistence purposes, they are classified to the undifferentiated goods-producing subsistence activities of households.
- Group 024
Support SERVICES to forestry
See class 0240.
- Group 181
Printing and service activities related to printing
This group includes printing of products, such as newspapers, books, periodicals, business forms, greeting cards, and other materials, and associated support activities, such as bookbinding, plate-making SERVICES, and data imaging. Printing can be done using various techniques and on different materials.
- Group 390
Remediation activities and other waste management services
See class 3900.
- Group 631
Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals
This group includes the provision of infrastructure for hosting, data processing SERVICES and related activities, as well as the provision of search facilities and other portals for the Internet.
- Group 662
Activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding
This group includes acting as agent (i.e. broker) in selling annuities and insurance policies or providing other employee benefits and insurance and pension related SERVICES such as claims adjustment and third party administration.
- Group 791
Travel agency and tour operator activities
This group includes the activities of agencies, primarily engaged in selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation SERVICES to the general public and commercial clients and the activity of arranging and assembling tours that are sold through travel agencies or directly by agents such as tour operators.
- Group 842
Provision of SERVICES to the community as a whole
This group includes foreign affairs, defence and public order and safety activities.
- Group 821
Office administrative and support activities
This group includes the provision of a range of day-to-day office administrative SERVICES, such as financial planning, billing and record keeping, personnel and physical distribution and logistics for others on a contract or fee basis.
This group includes also support activities for others on a contract or fee basis, that are ongoing routine business support functions that businesses and organizations traditionally do for themselves.
Units classified in this group do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete operations of a business. Units engaged in one particular aspect of these activities are classified according to that particular activity.
- Group 931
Sports activities
This group includes the operation of sports facilities; activities of sports teams or clubs primarily participating in live sports events before a paying audience; independent athletes engaged in participating in live sporting or racing events before a paying audience; owners of racing participants such as cars, dogs, horses, etc. primarily engaged in entering them in racing events or other spectator sports events; sports trainers providing specialized SERVICES to support participants in sports events or competitions; operators of arenas and stadiums; other activities of organizing, promoting or managing sports events, n.e.c.
- Group 932
Other amusement and recreation activities
This group includes the activities of a wide range of units that operate facilities or provide SERVICES to meet the varied recreational interests of their patrons, including the operation of a variety of attractions, such as mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits and picnic grounds.
- Division 05
Mining of coal and lignite
This division includes the extraction of solid mineral fuels includes through underground or open-cast mining and includes operations (e.g. grading, cleaning, compressing and other steps necessary for transportation etc.) leading to a marketable product.
This division does not include coking (see 1910), SERVICES incidental to coal or lignite mining (see 0990) or the manufacture of briquettes (see 1920).
- Division 06
Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
This division includes the production of crude petroleum, the mining and extraction of oil from oil shale and oil sands and the production of natural gas and recovery of hydrocarbon liquids. This includes the overall activities of operating and/or developing oil and gas field properties, including such activities as drilling, completing and equipping wells, operating separators, emulsion breakers, desilting equipment and field gathering lines for crude petroleum and all other activities in the preparation of oil and gas up to the point of shipment from the producing property.
This division excludes support activities for petroleum and gas extraction, such as oil and gas field SERVICES, performed on a fee or contract basis, oil and gas well exploration and test drilling and boring activities (see class 0910). This division also excludes the refining of petroleum products (see class 1920) and geophysical, geologic and seismic surveying activities (see class 7110).
- Division 39
Remediation activities and other waste management services
This division includes the provision of remediation SERVICES, i.e. the cleanup of contaminated buildings and sites, soil, surface or ground water.
- Division 53
Postal and courier activities
This division includes postal and courier activities, such as pickup, transport and delivery of letters and parcels under various arrangements. Local delivery and messenger SERVICES are also included.
- Division 09
Mining support service activities
This division includes specialized support SERVICES incidental to mining provided on a fee or contract basis. It includes exploration SERVICES through traditional prospecting methods such as taking core samples and making geological observations as well as drilling, test-drilling or redrilling for oil wells, metallic and non-metallic minerals. Other typical SERVICES cover building oil and gas well foundations, cementing oil and gas well casings, cleaning, bailing and swabbing oil and gas wells, draining and pumping mines, overburden removal SERVICES at mines, etc.
- Division 18
Printing and reproduction of recorded media
This division includes printing of products, such as newspapers, books, periodicals, business forms, greeting cards, and other materials, and associated support activities, such as bookbinding, plate-making SERVICES, and data imaging. The support activities included here are an integral part of the printing industry, and a product (a printing plate, a bound book, or a computer disk or file) that is an integral part of the printing industry is almost always provided by these operations.
Processes used in printing include a variety of methods for transferring an image from a plate, screen, or computer file to a medium, such as paper, plastics, metal, textile articles, or wood. The most prominent of these methods entails the transfer of the image from a plate or screen to the medium through lithographic, gravure, screen or flexographic printing. Often a computer file is used to directly ''drive'' the printing mechanism to create the image or electrostatic and other types of equipment (digital or non-impact printing).
Though printing and publishing can be carried out by the same unit (a newspaper, for example), it is less and less the case that these distinct activities are carried out in the same physical location.
This division also includes the reproduction of recorded media, such as compact discs, video recordings, software on discs or tapes, records etc.
This division excludes publishing activities (see section J).
- Division 19
Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products
This division includes the transformation of crude petroleum and coal into usable products. The dominant process is petroleum refining, which involves the separation of crude petroleum into component products through such techniques as cracking and distillation. This division also includes the manufacture for own account of characteristic products (e.g. coke, butane, propane, petrol, kerosene, fuel oil etc.) as well as processing SERVICES (e.g. custom refining).
This division includes the manufacture of gases such as ethane, propane and butane as products of petroleum refineries.
Not included is the manufacture of such gases in other units (2011), manufacture of industrial gases (2011), extraction of natural gas (methane, ethane, butane or propane) (0600), and manufacture of fuel gas, other than petroleum gases (e.g. coal gas, water gas, producer gas, gasworks gas) (35420).
The manufacture of petrochemicals from refined petroleum is classified in division 20.
- Division 66
Activities auxiliary to financial service and insurance activities
This division includes the provision of SERVICES involved in or closely related to financial service activities, but not themselves providing financial SERVICES. The primary breakdown of this division is according to the type of financial transaction or funding served.
- Division 71
Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis
This division includes the provision of architectural SERVICES, engineering SERVICES, drafting SERVICES, building inspection SERVICES and surveying and mapping SERVICES. It also includes the performance of physical, chemical, and other analytical testing SERVICES.
- Division 74
Other professional, scientific and technical activities
This division includes the provision of professional scientific and technical SERVICES (except legal and accounting activities; architecture and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis; management and management consultancy activities; research and development and advertising activities).
- Division 87
Residential care activities
This division includes the provision of residential care combined with either nursing, supervisory or other types of care as required by the residents. Facilities are a significant part of the production process and the care provided is a mix of health and social SERVICES with the health SERVICES being largely some level of nursing SERVICES.
- Division 88
Social work activities without accommodation
This division includes the provision of a variety of social assistance SERVICES directly to clients. The activities in this division do not include accommodation SERVICES, except on a temporary basis.
- Division 92
Gambling and betting activities
This division includes the operation of gambling facilities such as casinos, bingo halls and video gaming terminals and the provision of gambling SERVICES, such as lotteries and off-track betting.
- Division 96
Other personal service activities
This division includes all service activities not mentioned elsewhere in the classification. Notably it includes types of SERVICES such as washing and (dry-)cleaning of textiles and fur products, hairdressing and other beauty treatment, funeral and related activities.
- Division 69
Legal and accounting activities
This division includes legal representation of one party's interest against another party, whether or not before courts or other judicial bodies by, or under supervision of, persons who are members of the bar, such as advice and representation in civil cases, advice and representation in criminal actions, advice and representation in connection with labour disputes. It also includes preparation of legal documents such as articles of incorporation, partnership agreements or similar documents in connection with company formation, patents and copyrights, preparation of deeds, wills, trusts, etc. as well as other activities of notaries public, civil law notaries, bailiffs, arbitrators, examiners and referees. It also includes accounting and bookkeeping SERVICES such as auditing of accounting records, preparing financial statements and bookkeeping.
- Division 72
Scientific research and development
This division includes the activities of three types of research and development: 1) basic research: experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without particular application or use in view, 2) applied research: original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge, directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective and 3) experimental development: systematic work, drawing on existing knowledge gained from research and/or practical experience, directed to producing new materials, products and devices, to installing new processes, systems and SERVICES, and to improving substantially those already produced or installed.
Research and experimental development activities in this division are subdivided into two categories: natural sciences and engineering; social sciences and the humanities.
This division excludes market research (see class 7320).
- Division 78
Employment activities
This division includes activities of listing employment vacancies and referring or placing applicants for employment, where the individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies, supplying workers to clients' businesses for limited periods of time to supplement the working force of the client, and the activities of providing human resources and human resource management SERVICES for others on a contract or fee basis. This division also includes executive search and placement activities and activities of theatrical casting agencies.
This division excludes the activities of agents for individual artists (see class 7490).
- Division 79
Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service and related activities
This division includes the activity of selling travel, tour, transportation and accommodation SERVICES to the general public and commercial clients and the activity of arranging and assembling tours that are sold through travel agencies or directly by agents such as tour operators, as well as other travel-related SERVICES including reservation SERVICES. The activities of tourist guides and tourism promotion activities are also included.
- Division 80
Security and investigation activities
This division includes security-related SERVICES such as: investigation and detective services; guard and patrol services; picking up and delivering money, receipts, or other valuable items with personnel and equipment to protect such properties while in transit; operation of electronic security alarm systems, such as burglar and fire alarms, where the activity focuses on remote monitoring these systems, but often involves also sale, installation and repair SERVICES. If the latter components are provided separate, they are excluded from this division and classified in retail sale, construction etc.
- Division 81
Services to buildings and landscape activities
This division includes the provision of a number of general support SERVICES, such as the provision of a combination of support SERVICES within a client's facilities, the interior and exterior cleaning of buildings of all types, cleaning of industrial machinery, cleaning of trains, buses, planes, etc., cleaning of the inside of road and sea tankers, disinfecting and exterminating activities for buildings, ships, trains, etc., bottle cleaning, street sweeping, snow and ice removal, provision of landscape care and maintenance SERVICES and provision of these SERVICES along with the design of landscape plans and/or the construction (i.e. installation) of walkways, retaining walls, decks, fences, ponds, and similar structures.
- Division 82
Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
This division includes the provision of a range of day-to-day office administrative SERVICES, as well as ongoing routine business support functions for others, on a contract or fee basis.
This division also includes all support service activities typically provided to businesses not elsewhere classified.
Units classified in this division do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete operations of a business.
- Division 98
Undifferentiated goods- and SERVICES,producing activities of private households for own use
This division includes the undifferentiated subsistence goods-producing and SERVICES,producing activities of households.
Households should be classified here only if it is impossible to identify a primary activity for the subsistence activities of the household. If the household engages in market activities, it should be classified according to the primary market activity carried out.
- Section K
Financial and insurance activities
This section includes financial service activities, including insurance, reinsurance and pension funding activities and activities to support financial SERVICES.
This section also includes the activities of holding assets, such as activities of holding companies and the activities of trusts, funds and similar financial entities.
- Section G
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
This section includes wholesale and retail sale (i.e. sale without transformation) of any type of goods and the rendering of SERVICES incidental to the sale of these goods. Wholesaling and retailing are the final steps in the distribution of goods. Goods bought and sold are also referred to as merchandise.
Also included in this section are the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Sale without transformation is considered to include the usual operations (or manipulations) associated with trade, for example sorting, grading and assembling of goods, mixing (blending) of goods (for example sand), bottling (with or without preceding bottle cleaning), packing, breaking bulk and repacking for distribution in smaller lots, storage (whether or not frozen or chilled), cleaning and drying of agricultural products, cutting out of wood fibreboards or metal sheets as secondary activities.
Division 45 includes all activities related to the sale and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, while divisions 46 and 47 include all other sale activities. The distinction between division 46 (wholesale) and division 47 (retail sale) is based on the predominant type of customer.
Wholesale is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying goods for, or selling goods to, such persons or companies. The principal types of businesses included are merchant wholesalers, i.e. wholesalers who take title to the goods they sell, such as wholesale merchants or jobbers, industrial distributors, exporters, importers, and cooperative buying associations, sales branches and sales offices (but not retail stores) that are maintained by manufacturing or mining units apart from their plants or mines for the purpose of marketing their products and that do not merely take orders to be filled by direct shipments from the plants or mines. Also included are merchandise brokers, commission merchants and agents and assemblers, buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products. Wholesalers frequently physically assemble, sort and grade goods in large lots, break bulk, repack and redistribute in smaller lots, for example pharmaceuticals; store, refrigerate, deliver and install goods, engage in sales promotion for their customers and label design.
Retailing is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods mainly to the general public for personal or household consumption or utilization, by shops, department stores, stalls, mail-order houses, door-to-door sales persons, hawkers and peddlers, consumer cooperatives, auction houses etc. Most retailers take title to the goods they sell, but some act as agents for a principal and sell either on consignment or on a commission basis.
- Section I
Accommodation and food service activities
This section includes the provision of short-stay accommodation for visitors and other travellers and the provision of complete meals and drinks fit for immediate consumption. The amount and type of supplementary SERVICES provided within this section can vary widely.
This section excludes the provision of long-term accommodation as primary residences, which is classified in Real estate activities (section L). Also excluded is the preparation of food or drinks that are either not fit for immediate consumption or that are sold through independent distribution channels, i.e. through wholesale or retail trade activities. The preparation of these foods is classified in Manufacturing (section C).
- Section T
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and SERVICES,producing activities of households for own use
- Section L
Real estate activities
This section includes acting as lessors, agents and/or brokers in one or more of the following: selling or buying real estate, renting real estate, providing other real estate SERVICES such as appraising real estate or acting as real estate escrow agents. Activities in this section may be carried out on own or leased property and may be done on a fee or contract basis. Also included is the building of structures, combined with maintaining ownership or leasing of such structures.
This section includes real estate property managers.
- Section O
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
This section includes activities of a governmental nature, normally carried out by the public administration. This includes the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant regulation, as well as the administration of programmes based on them, legislative activities, taxation, national defence, public order and safety, immigration SERVICES, foreign affairs and the administration of government programmes. This section also includes compulsory social security activities.
The legal or institutional status is not, in itself, the determining factor for an activity to belong in this section, rather than the activity being of a nature specified in the previous paragraph. This means that activities classified elsewhere in ISIC do not fall under this section, even if carried out by public entities. For example, administration of the school system (i.e. regulations, checks, curricula) falls under this section, but teaching itself does not (see section P), and a prison or military hospital is classified to health (see section Q). Similarly, some activities described in this section may be carried out by non-government units.