NAICS 62
What is the NAICS code 62?
The NAICS code 62 is applied to those industries related to Health Care and Social Assistance.
The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry. Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners.
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 62 in the North American Industry Classification System.
This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 62
NAFTA
This NAICS code is used in the trilateral agreement of the three members of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Related codes
There are no cross-reference for the NAICS industry 62.
Related activities
There is no Alternate NAICS Descriptions for the Health Care and Social Assistance industry (NAICS Code 62).
