This industry comprises commercial establishments known to the public as hotels, motor hotels, motels, or tourist courts, primarily engaged in providing lodging, or lodging and meals, for the general public. Hotels that are operated by membership organizations and open to the general public are included in this industry.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in renting rooms, with or without board, on a fee basis. Rental of apartments, apartment hotels, and other housing units are classified in Real Estate Operators (Except Developers) and Lessors industries.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in operating sporting and recreational camps, such as boys' and girls' camps, and fishing and hunting camps. Establishments primarily engaged in operating sports instructional camps, such as baseball, basketball, football, or karate camps, and those operating day camps are classified in SIC 7999: Amusement and Recreation Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in providing overnight or short-term camping sites for recreational vehicles, trailers, campers, or tents.
This category covers lodging houses and hotels operated by membership organizations for the benefit of their constituents, and not open to the general public. Commercial hotels operated by such organizations are classified in SIC 7011: Hotels and Motels and commercial rooming and boarding houses are classified in SIC 7021: Rooming and Boarding Houses.
This category includes firms that primarily operate mechanical laundries powered with steam or other means. Companies that primarily supply laundered work clothing on a contract or fee basis are classified in SIC 7218: Industrial Launderers.
This industry category includes establishments that primarily serve as agents for launderers and drycleaners. Companies in this industry may do their own pressing or finishing work but have the laundry and dry cleaning work done by others.
This industry classification covers businesses that primarily supply or rent to commercial establishments or household users the following laundered items: uniforms, gowns, and coats used by doctors, nurses, barbers, beauticians, and waitresses; table linens, bed linens, towels and toweling; and similar various items. Companies included in this industry may or may not operate their own laundry facilities.
This industry classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the operation of coin-operated or other self-service laundry and dry cleaning equipment either for use on the premises, or in apartments, dormitories, and similar locations. These include establishments known as laundromats, launderettes, and self-service dry cleaners.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in dry cleaning or dyeing apparel and household fabrics other than rugs. Press shops and agents for dry cleaners are classified in SIC 7212: Garment Pressing, and Agents for Laundries and Dry Cleaners.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in cleaning carpets and upholstered furniture either at a plant or on customers' premises. Establishments primarily engaged in rug repair are classified in SIC 7699: Repair Shops and Related Services, Not Elsewhere Classified, while those primarily involved in reupholstering and repairing furniture are classified in SIC 7641: Reupholstery and Furniture Repair.
This industry category includes establishments that primarily provide laundered or drycleaned industrial work uniforms and related work clothing, such as protective apparel (flame and heat resistant) and clean room apparel; laundered mats and rugs; dust control items, such as treated mops, rugs, mats, dust tool covers, and cloths; laundered wiping towels; and other selected items to industrial, commercial, and government users. These items often belong to the industrial launderer who rented them to users—who may or may not have operated their own laundry or drycleaning facilities.
This industry category includes establishments that perform laundry and garment services, not elsewhere classified, such as the repair, alteration, and storage of clothes for individuals and for the operation of hand laundries. Custom tailors and dressmakers classified in SIC 5699: Miscellaneous Apparel and Accessory Stores; fur shops making fur apparel to custom order are classified in SIC 5632: Women's Accessory and Specialty Stores; and press shops are classified in SIC 7212: Garment Pressing, and Agents for Laundries and Drycleaners.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in still or video portrait photography for the general public. Establishments primarily engaged in commercial photography are classified in SIC 7335: Commercial Photography; those engaged in video tape production other than portrait are classified in SIC 7812: Motion Picture and Video Tape Production; and those engaged in film developing or print processing for the trade or the general public are classified in SIC 7384: Photofinishing Laboratories.
This category encompasses establishments primarily engaged in offering beauty or hairdressing services. It includes unisex salons as well as combination beauty and barber shops.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in providing barber and men's styling services. It also includes barber colleges.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in repairing footwear or shining shoes. Also included are establishments engaged in cleaning and blocking hats.
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial, conducting funerals, and cremating the dead.
This category covers establishments that primarily provide tax return preparation services without also providing accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping services. Establishments engaged in providing income tax return preparation services that also provide accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping services are classified in SIC 8721: Accounting, Auditing, and Bookkeeping Services.
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in providing personal services, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in operating physical fitness facilities, including health fitness spas and reducing salons, are classified in various lodging industries depending on the type of lodging provided; if they do not provide lodging they are classified in SIC 7991: Physical Fitness Facilities.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in preparing advertising (writing copy, artwork, graphics, and other creative work) and placing such advertising in periodicals, newspapers, radio, and television, or other advertising media for clients on a contract or fee basis. Establishments that either place advertising with media but offer no creative services or provide creative services but do not place the advertising with media are excluded from this industry.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of poster displays and painted and electronic spectacular displays on billboards, panels, bulletins, and frames, principally outdoors. Such establishments may construct, repair, and maintain display boards and may post advertisements.
Establishments primarily engaged in soliciting advertising on a contract or fee basis for newspapers, magazines, and other publications or for radio and television stations. Separate offices of newspapers, magazine, and radio and television stations engaged in soliciting advertising are classified as auxiliaries.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in offering advertising services, not elsewhere classified, such as aerial advertising, circular and handbill distribution, distribution or delivery of advertising material or samples, and transit advertising. Establishments primarily engaged in direct mail advertising are classified in SIC 7331: Direct Mail Advertising Services; those that write advertising copy, but do not place the advertising with media, are classified in SIC 8999: Services, Not Elsewhere Classified; and those that provide services in commercial art, graphics, or other creative advertising services, but do not place the advertising with media, are classified in SIC 7335: Commercial Photography or SIC 7336: Commercial Art and Graphic Design.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the collection or adjustment of claims other than insurance. Establishments primarily engaged in providing credit card service with collection by a central agency are classified in SIC 6153: Short-term Business Credit Institutions, Except Agricultural; those providing adjustment services are classified in SIC 6411: Insurance Agents, Brokers, and Service; and those providing debt counseling or adjustment services to individuals are classified in SIC 7299: Miscellaneous Personal Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in providing mercantile and consumer credit reporting services. Examples of such establishments include consumer credit reporting bureaus, credit bureaus and agencies, credit clearinghouses, credit investigation services, and mercantile credit reporting bureaus.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in creating, producing, and mailing direct mail promotional pieces for clients. This industry also encompasses establishments primarily employed in compiling and selling mailing lists.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in reproducing text, drawings, plans, maps, or other copy by blueprinting, photocopying, mimeographing, or other methods of duplication other than printing or microfilming. Establishments primarily engaged in printing are classified under SIC 2752: Commercial Printing, Lithographic; SIC 2754: Commercial Printing, Gravure; and SIC 2759: Commercial Printing, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in providing commercial photography services to advertising agencies, publishers, and other business and industrial users. Establishments primarily engaged in still and video portrait photography are classified in SIC 7221: Photographic Studios, Portrait, and those primarily engaged in mapmaking are classified in SIC 7389: Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in providing commercial art or graphic design services for advertising agencies, publishers, and other business and industrial users. Establishments primarily engaged in art, except commercial and medical, are classified in SIC 8999: Services, Not Elsewhere Classified; those engaged in medical art are classified in SIC 8099: Health and Allied Services, Not Elsewhere Classified; and those providing drafting services are classified in SIC 7389: Business Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in providing secretarial, word processing, typing, editing, proofreading, resume writing, letter writing, stenographic, or court reporting services.
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in disinfection and in termite, insect, rodent, and other pest control, generally in dwellings or other buildings. Establishments primarily engaged in pest control for lawns or agricultural production are classified in various agricultural service industries.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing building cleaning and maintenance services, not elsewhere classified, such as window cleaning, janitorial service, floor waxing, and office cleaning.
This classification comprises establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing (except finance leasing) medical equipment. Establishments included within this industry may also sell medical supplies.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing (except finance leasing) heavy construction equipment, with or without operators. Establishments primarily engaged in financial leasing are classified in SIC 6159: Miscellaneous Business Credit Institutions.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing (except finance leasing) equipment, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in finance leasing are classified in SIC 6159: Miscellaneous Business Credit Institutions.
This category pertains to establishments primarily engaged in providing employment services, except theatrical employment agencies and motion picture casting bureaus. Establishments classified under this code may assist either employers or those seeking employment.
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in supplying temporary or continuing help on a contract or fee basis. The help supplied is always on the payroll of the supplying establishments but is under the direct or general supervision of the business to which the help is furnished.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in providing computer programming services on a contract or fee basis. Establishments of this industry perform a variety of additional services, such as computer software design and analysis; modification of software; and training in the use of custom software.
This industry classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the design, development, and production of prepackaged computer software. Important products include operating, utility, and application programs.
Establishments in this industry are primarily engaged in developing or modifying computer software and packaging or bundling the software with purchased computer hardware—computers and computer peripheral equipment—to create and market an integrated system for a specific application. Establishments in this industry must provide each of the following services: the development or modification of the computer software; the marketing of purchased computer hardware; and involvement in all phases of systems development from design through installation.
This category encompasses establishments primarily engaged in providing computer processing and data preparation services. The service may consist of complete processing and preparation of reports from data supplied by the customer or a specialized service, such as data entry or making data processing equipment available on an hourly or time-sharing basis.
Companies in this industry are primarily engaged in providing online information retrieval services on a contract or fee basis. The information generally involves a range of subjects and is taken from other primary sources, such as the original publishers of the materials.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in providing on-site management and operation of computer and data processing facilities on a contract or fee basis. Establishments primarily engaged in providing computer processing services at their own facility are classified in SIC 7374: Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing Services.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in renting or leasing computers and related data processing equipment on the customers' site, whether or not also providing maintenance or support services. This industry does not include establishments engaged in both manufacturing and leasing computers and related data processing equipment.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the maintenance and repair of computers and computer peripheral equipment.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in supplying computer related services, not elsewhere classified. Computer consultants operating on a contract or fee basis are also classified in this industry.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in providing detective, guard, and armored car services. Establishments primarily engaged in monitoring and maintaining security systems devices, such as burglar and fire alarms, are classified in SIC 7382: Security Systems Services.
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in monitoring and maintaining security systems devices, such as burglar and fire alarms. Establishments of this industry may sell or lease and install the security systems that they monitor and maintain.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing news, pictures, and features and in supplying news reporting services to newspapers and periodicals. Separate establishments of newspaper and periodical publishers that are engaged in gathering news are classified as auxiliaries.
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in developing film, making photographic prints and enlargements, or retouching photographs for businesses or for the general public.
This group covers establishments primarily engaged in business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and miscellaneous auctioneering services, on a flat fee or commission basis.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in short-term rental or extended-term leasing (with or without maintenance) of trucks, truck tractors, or semitrailers without drivers. Establishments primarily engaged in finance leasing of trucks are classified in Finance, SIC 6159: Miscellaneous Business Credit Institutions; those renting trucks with drivers are classified in various trucking and courier service industries; and those primarily engaged in renting and leasing, except finance leasing, of industrial trucks are classified in SIC 7359: Equipment Rental and Leasing, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the short-term rental of passenger cars without drivers.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in extended-term leasing of passenger cars without drivers. Establishments primarily engaged in finance leasing of automobiles are classified in SIC 6159: Miscellaneous Business Credit Institutions.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in daily or extended-term rental of utility trailers and recreational vehicles (RVs). Establishments primarily engaged in renting motorcycles, bicycles, golf carts, go-carts, or recreational boats are classified in SIC 7999: Amusement and Recreation Services, Not Elsewhere Classified; and those engaged in renting airplanes are classified in SIC 7359: Equipment Rental and Leasing, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the temporary parking of automobiles, usually on an hourly, daily, or monthly contract or fee basis. Establishments primarily engaged in extended or dead storage of automobiles are classified in SIC 4226: Special Warehousing and Storage, Not Elsewhere Classified.
Firms in this category repair automotive tops, bodies, and interiors, or engage in automotive painting and refinishing. This includes non-factory customizing of vans, trucks, and automobiles.
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the installation, repair, or sale and installation of automotive exhaust systems. The sale of mufflers, tailpipes, and catalytic converters is considered to be incidental to the installation of these products.
This classification covers businesses that primarily repair and retread automotive tires. Industry firms either retread customers' tires or retread tires for sale or exchange.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the installation, repair, or sales and installation of automotive glass. The sale of the glass is considered incidental to the replacement.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the installation, repair, or sales and installation of automotive transmissions. The sale of transmissions and related parts is considered incidental to the installation or repair of these products.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in general automotive repair, including those specifically engaged in repairing engines. Establishments primarily engaged in industrial truck repair are covered in SIC 7699: Repair Shops and Related Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This category covers businesses that primarily do specialized automotive repair, not elsewhere classified, such as fuel service (carburetor repair), brake relining, front-end and wheel alignment, and radiator repair. Businesses that primarily do automotive welding are in SIC 7692: Welding Repair.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in washing, waxing, and polishing motor vehicles (including automobiles, trucks, and buses), or in furnishing facilities for the self-service washing of such vehicles.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing automotive services, except repair and carwashes. Establishments primarily providing automobile driving instructions are classified in SIC 8299: Schools and Educational Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in repairing radios, televisions, phonographs, stereo equipment, and tape recorders. Also included are establishments engaged in installing and repairing television, amateur, and citizens' band antennas, or in installing and servicing radio transmitting and receiving equipment in homes, offices, boats, automobiles, or other vehicles.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in servicing and repairing household and commercial electrical refrigerators and air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Establishments primarily engaged in servicing and repairing gas refrigeration equipment are classified in SIC 7699: Repair Shops and Related Services, Not Elsewhere Classified; and those repairing automotive air-conditioning equipment are classified in SIC 7539: Automotive Repair Shops, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry category includes establishments that primarily repair electrical and electronic equipment, such as electrical household appliances and electrical and electronic industrial equipment.
This category covers businesses that primarily repair watches, clocks, or jewelry. Companies that primarily assemble watches from purchased parts are in SIC 3873: Watches, Clocks, Clockwork Operated Devices, and Parts.
This classification covers businesses that primarily reupholster and repair furniture. Companies that primarily sell upholstery materials for personal or household use are in SIC 5714: Drapery, Curtain, and Upholstery Stores; and those making furniture and cabinets on a custom basis are in SIC 5712: Furniture Stores.
This classification covers businesses that primarily do general repair work by welding, including automotive welding.
This category covers businesses that primarily re-wind armatures and rebuild or repair electric motors. These companies may either repair customers' equipment, or repair or rebuild for sale or exchange to users or the trade.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in specialized repair services, not elsewhere classified.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of theatrical and nontheatrical motion pictures and videotapes for exhibition or sale, including educational, industrial, and religious films. Included in the industry are establishments engaged in both production and distribution.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in performing services independent of motion picture production, but allied thereto. These include motion picture film processing, editing and titling, casting, wardrobe and studio property rental, motion picture and video tape reproduction, and stock footage film libraries.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the distribution (rental or sale) of theatrical and nontheatrical motion picture films or in the distribution of videotapes and disks, except to the general public. Establishments engaged in both distribution and production are classified in SIC 7812: Motion Picture and Videotape Production.
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in performing auxiliary services to motion picture distribution, such as film delivery service, film purchasing and booking agencies, and film libraries.
This category covers commercially operated theaters primarily engaged in the indoor exhibition of motion pictures.
This category covers commercially operated theaters, commonly known as drive-ins, primarily engaged in the outdoor exhibition of motion pictures.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in renting videotapes and disks to the general public for personal or household use. Establishments primarily engaged in renting video recorders and players are classified in SIC 7359: Equipment Rental and Leasing, Not Elsewhere Classified.
Establishments in this industry are primarily engaged in operating dance studios, schools, and public dance halls or ballrooms. Establishments primarily engaged in renting facilities used as dance halls or ballrooms are classified in SIC 6512: Operators of Nonresidential Buildings.
This category includes companies engaged in providing live theatrical presentations, including road companies and summer theaters. This industry also includes services allied with theatrical presentations, casting agencies; booking agencies for plays, artists, and concerts; scenery, lighting, and other equipment services; and theatrical ticket agencies.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in providing entertainment other than live theatrical presentations; these establishments include bands, orchestras, and entertainers.
This industry includes establishments known to the public as bowling centers or bowling alleys. Such establishments frequently sell meals and refreshments.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in operating and promoting professional and semi-professional athletic clubs. It also covers establishments engaged in promoting athletic events, including amateur athletics, and in managing individual professional athletes.
This classification covers promoters and participants in racing activities, including racetrack operators, operators of racing stables, jockeys, racehorse trainers, and race car owners and operators.
Establishments in this industry are primarily engaged in operating reducing and other health clubs, spas, and similar facilities featuring exercise and other active physical fitness conditioning, whether or not on a membership basis. Also included in this industry are establishments providing aerobic dance and exercise classes.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in the operation of golf courses open to the general public on a contract or fee basis. Membership golf and country clubs are classified in SIC 7997: Membership Sports and Recreation Clubs.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in operating coin-operated amusement devices, either in their own or in other places of business. Such amusement devices include jukeboxes, pinball machines, mechanical games, electronic games, pool tables, shuffle alleys, electronic darts, video games, kiddie rides, prize dispensing machines, and slot machines.
This category covers theme parks, kiddie parks, amusement piers, centers, and parks, and other establishments (excluding fairs, circuses, and carnivals) that operate in part or whole such attractions as mechanical rides, amusement devices, refreshment stands, and picnic grounds. Amusement concessionaires operating within these establishments are generally covered in SIC 7999: Amusement and Recreation Services, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry classification covers sports and recreation clubs that are restricted to use by members and their guests. Country, golf, tennis, yacht, and amateur sports and recreation clubs are included in this industry.
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in the operation of sports, amusement, and recreation services, not elsewhere classified, such as bathing beaches, swimming pools, lottery operations, riding academies and schools, gaming establishments, carnival operations, exposition operations, horse shows, picnic grounds operation, ski resorts, and shooting galleries. Establishments primarily engaged in showing or handling animals at shows or exhibitions are classified in SIC 0752: Animal Specialty Services, Except Veterinary.
This industry consists of offices and clinics of licensed medical doctors, excluding doctors of osteopathic medicine (covered in SIC 8031: Clinics of Doctors of Osteopathy). These establishments are engaged in general or specialized medicine or surgery.
This industry consists of offices and clinics of licensed practitioners of dentistry with the degree of D.M.D., D.D.S., or D.D.Sc. Included in this industry are the offices of dentists, dental surgeons, pediatric dentists, endodontists (root canal specialists), oral pathologists (specialists in mouth diseases), orthodontists (specialists in straightening the teeth), periodontists (gum specialists), and prosthodontists (artificial teeth and denture specialists).
This industry consists of offices and clinics of licensed doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) and engaged in the practice of general or specialized osteopathic medicine and surgery. Establishments operating as clinics of osteopathic physicians are included in this industry.
This category includes establishments of licensed practitioners having the degree of doctor of chiropractic and engaged in the practice of chiropractic medicine. Operations serving as clinics of chiropractors are also covered in this industry.
This category covers establishments of licensed practitioners having the degree of O.D. (Doctor of Optometry) and engaged in the practice of optometry.
This category pertains to establishments of licensed practitioners having the degree of D.P. (Doctor of Podiatry) and engaged in the practice of podiatry.
This industry consists of establishments of health care practitioners engaged in the practice of health fields not elsewhere classified. Practitioners may or may not be licensed or certified, depending on the state in which they practice.
This industry contains establishments primarily engaged in providing inpatient nursing and rehabilitative services to patients who require continuous health care but not hospital services. Care must be ordered by and under the direction of a physician.
This industry includes establishments that provide inpatient nursing and rehabilitative services, but not on a continuous basis. Designated in particular are facilities certified under the Medicaid program to deliver intermediate care to the developmentally disabled.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in providing limited nursing and health-related or personal care to individuals who do not need the degree of care and treatment that a skilled or intermediate care facility provides.
This industry consists of establishments primarily providing general medical and surgical services and other hospital services in a hospital setting. This grouping excludes specialty hospitals classified in SIC 8069: Specialty Hospital, Except Psychiatric and psychiatric hospitals covered in SIC 8063: Psychiatric Hospitals.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in medical services for the mentally ill. Hospital establishments primarily engaged in providing health care for the mentally retarded are classified in SIC 8051: Skilled Nursing Care Facilities.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in providing hospital services for specialized categories of patients, except for the mentally ill (see SIC 8051: Skilled Nursing Care Facilities and SIC 8063: Psychiatric Hospitals. Hospitals in this industry classification include facilities that treat alcoholism and drug addiction, cancer, children's illnesses, chronic disease, maternity, orthopedic, and tuberculosis.
This category covers establishments that provide professional analytic or diagnostic services to the medical profession or to patients upon prescription of their physicians.
This classification comprises establishments primarily engaged in making dentures, artificial teeth, and orthodontic appliances to order for the dental profession. Those establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing artificial teeth, except to order, are classified in SIC 3843: Dental Equipment and Supplies, and those providing dental x-ray laboratory services are classified in SIC 8071: Medical Laboratories.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing or medical care in the home under the supervision of a physician. It includes home healthcare services and visiting nurse associations that provide care to recovering, disabled, and chronically or terminally ill people.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in providing kidney or renal dialysis services. Establishments operating as clinics of physicians are covered in SIC 8011: Offices and Clinics of Doctors of Medicine.
This grouping covers establishments primarily engaged in outpatient care of a specialized nature with permanent facilities and with medical staff to provide diagnosis, treatment, or both for patients who are ambulatory and do not require inpatient care. Offices and clinics of health practitioners are classified according to their primary health care activity.
This classification is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in providing health and allied services, not described under other classifications.
This industry consists of establishments that are headed by members of the bar and are primarily engaged in offering legal advice and/or services. Such establishments include attorneys, counselors at law, law offices, lawyers, legal aid services, legal services, patent solicitors' offices, and referees in bankruptcy.
This category includes elementary and secondary schools furnishing academic courses, ordinarily for kindergarten through grade 12. It includes both public and private institutions and encompasses parochial schools, boarding schools, vocational high schools, and schools providing special services for physically and mentally handicapped students.
This classification covers colleges, universities, seminaries, and professional schools offering academic courses and granting academic degrees. The minimum requirement for admission is a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training.
This classification includes junior colleges and technical institutes offering academic or technical courses and granting Associate degrees, certificates, or diplomas. The minimum requirement for admission is a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training.
This category encompasses establishments primarily engaged in providing library services, including the circulation of books and other materials for reading, study, and reference. Establishments primarily engaged in operating motion picture film libraries are classified in SIC 7829: Services Allied to Motion Picture Distribution.
The data processing schools category encompasses establishments primarily engaged in offering data processing courses or training in computer programming and computer peripheral equipment operation, maintenance, and repair. Schools offering an academic degree in computer sciences are classified in SIC 8221: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools.
This category includes establishments offering courses in business machine operation, office procedures, and secretarial and stenographic skills. Schools offering academic degrees are classified in Industry Groups 821 and 822.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in offering specialized vocational courses, not elsewhere classified. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in offering educational courses by mail.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in offering educational courses and services not elsewhere classified. Included in this industry are music schools, drama schools, language schools, short-term examination preparatory schools, student exchange programs, curriculum development, and vocational counseling, except rehabilitation counseling.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in providing one or more of a wide variety of individual and family social, counseling, welfare, or referral services, including refugee, disaster, and temporary relief services. This industry includes offices of specialists providing counseling, referral, and other social services.
This category encompasses establishments primarily engaged in providing manpower training and vocational rehabilitation services for the unemployed, the under-employed, the disabled, and persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skills, or experience. Included in this industry are upgrading and job-development services, skill training, world-of-work orientation, and vocational rehabilitation counseling.
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in the care of infants or children or in providing pre-kindergarten education where medical care or delinquency correction is not a major element. These establishments may or may not have substantial educational programs.
This industry classification consists of establishments that provide residential social and personal care for children, senior citizens, and special categories of individuals with some limits on ability for self-care, but where medical care is not a major element. Included are group foster homes; halfway group homes; homes for the physically and mentally disabled; homes for the elderly; juvenile correctional homes; rehabilitation or residential centers; and children's boarding homes.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in providing social services, not elsewhere classified. This classification includes advocacy groups, antipoverty boards, community action and development groups, councils for social agencies, fund-raising organizations (except on a fee basis), health and welfare councils, regional planning organizations, social change associations, and social service information exchanges (such as information on alcoholism or drug addiction).
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the operation of museums and art galleries. Art galleries and dealers primarily engaged in selling to the general public are classified in SIC 5932: Used Merchandise Stores and SIC 5999: Miscellaneous Retail Stores, Not Elsewhere Classified.
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in operating arboreta, botanical gardens, zoological gardens, and/or zoological exhibits.
This industry classification includes membership organizations engaged in promoting the business interests of their members. Associations owned by their members but organized to perform a specific business function, such as common marketing of crops or joint advertising, are classified according to the function performed.
This industry covers membership organizations of professional persons for the advancement of the interests of their profession.
This industry includes membership organizations of workers that operate for the improvement of wages and working conditions.
This category covers membership organizations engaged in civic, social, or fraternal activities, excluding homeowner groups primarily associated with property management and membership sports and recreation clubs, which are classified elsewhere.
This classification includes membership organizations established to promote the interests of a national, state, or local political party or candidate. Also included are political groups organized to raise funds for a political party or individual candidates.
This category covers organizations operated for worship, for religious training or study, for government or administration of an organized religion, or for promotion of religious activities, including religious groups reaching the public through radio or television media. Other establishments maintained by religious organizations, such as educational institutions, hospitals, publishing houses, reading rooms, social services, and secondhand stores, are classified according to their primary activity.
This category covers membership organizations, not elsewhere classified (NEC), such as art councils, automobile owner's associations and clubs, humane societies, and reading rooms.
This category covers establishments engaged primarily in providing professional engineering services. Civil, mechanical, electrical and electronic, chemical, sanitary, industrial, petroleum, mining, aeronautical, and marine engineering are among the disciplines included.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in providing professional architectural services. Establishments primarily engaged in providing landscape architecture services are classified in SIC 078: Landscape Counseling and Planning.
This industry is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in providing professional surveying services and photogrammetric engineering. Types of surveys produced include land, water, and aerial surveys.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing accounting, bookkeeping, and related auditing services. It includes those businesses that use data processing and tabulating in connection with these services, but those whose primary aim is to provide such data processing and tabulating are classified in SIC 7374: Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing Services.
This industry classification covers establishments primarily engaged in commercial physical and biological research and development on a contract or fee basis. Noncommercial research establishments funded by endowments, grants, or contributions are classified in SIC 8733: Noncommercial Research Organizations.
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in performing commercial business, marketing, and other economic, sociological, and educational research on a contract or fee basis. Noncommercial economic, sociological, and educational research establishments funded from endowments, grants, or contributions are classified in SIC 8733 Noncommercial Research Organizations.
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in performing noncommercial research into and dissemination of information for public health, education, or general welfare. Establishments included here operate primarily on funds from endowments, contributions, and grants.
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in providing testing services. Establishments primarily engaged in performing clinical laboratory testing for the medical profession are classified in SIC 8071: Medical Laboratories.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing general or specialized management services on a day-to-day basis and on a contract or fee basis. Establishments in this industry do not provide operating staff.
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in furnishing operating counsel and assistance to management of private, nonprofit, and public organizations. These establishments generally perform a variety of activities, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; information systems planning, evaluation, and selection; human resource policies and practices planning; and production scheduling and control planning.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the preparation of materials, written or spoken, that are designed to influence the general public or other groups in promoting the interests of their clients.
This group covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing personnel to perform a range of services in support of the operations of other establishments or in providing a number of different continuing services, on a contract or fee basis, within another establishment. Included in the industry are establishments primarily engaged in the private operation of jails and adult correctional facilities, whether or not providing both management and supporting staff.
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business consulting services, not elsewhere classified, on a contract or fee basis, including such specialties as agriculture, city planning, radio consulting, test development, and traffic consulting.
This industry consists of private households that employ workers on or about the premises who serve in occupations usually considered as domestic service. This classification includes baby-sitting; domestic service; private estates; noncommercial farmhouses; private households employing cooks, maids, chauffeurs, and gardeners; personal affairs management; and noncommercial residential farms.
This group covers businesses that primarily provide services, not elsewhere classified (NEC), such as authors, lecturers, radio commentators, song writers, weather forecasters, writers, and artists working on their own account.