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This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing services, such as auditing of accounting records, designing accounting systems, preparing financial statements, developing budgets, preparing tax returns, processing payrolls, bookkeeping, and billing.

Business types included in this category:

• Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping and Payroll Services

This category includes businesses that perform essential support activities and operations for other organizations. Activities performed include: office administration, hiring and placing of personnel, document preparation and similar clerical services, solicitation, collection, security and surveillance services.

Business types included in this category:

• Business Support Services
• Employment Services
• Office Administrative Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in creating advertising campaigns and placing such advertising in periodicals, newspapers, radio and television, or other media. These establishments provide a full range of services, including advice, creative services, account management, production of advertising material, media planning, and placing advertising. This category also includes photographic services, as well as specialized services, such as industrial design, graphic design, and product design.

Business types included in this category:

• Advertising, Public Relations and Related Services
• Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
• Specialized Design Services

This industry group comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) growing oilseed and/or grain crops,(2) producing oilseed and grain seeds, (3) rowing root and tuber crops (except sugar beets and peanuts) or edible plants and/or producing root and tuber or edible plant seeds, (4) growing fruit and/or tree nut crops, (5) growing crops of any kind under cover (e.g., in greenhouses, cold frames, etc.) and/or growing nursery stock and flowers, (6) growing other crops, such as tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, hay, sugar beets, peanuts, agave, herbs and spices, and hay and grass seeds, (7) growing a combination of crops, (8) raising cattle, milking dairy cattle, or feeding cattle for fattening, (9) raising hogs and pigs, (10) breeding, hatching, and raising poultry for meat or egg production, (11) raising sheep, lambs, and goats, or feeding lambs for fattening, (12) raising bees, horses and other equines, rabbits and other fur-bearing animals, and so forth, and producing products, such as honey and other bee products, and (13) alligator farming.

Business types included in this category:

• Cattle Ranching and Farming
• Fruit and Tree Nut Farming
• Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production
• Hog and Pig Farming
• Oilseed and Grain Farming
• Other Animal Production
• Other Crop Farming
• Poultry and Egg Production
• Sheep and Goat Farming
• Vegetable and Melon Farming

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in acting as lessors of buildings used as residences or dwellings, such as single-family homes, apartment buildings, and town homes. Included in this industry are owner lessors and establishments renting real estate and then acting as lessors in subleasing it to others. The establishments in this industry may manage the property themselves or have another establishment manage it for them.

Business types included in this category:

• Lessors of Real Estate

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the farm raising and production of aquatic animals or plants in controlled or selected aquatic environments. These establishments use some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as holding in captivity, regular stocking, feeding, and protecting from predators, pests, and disease.

Business types included in this category:

• Aquaculture

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in planning and designing residential, institutional, leisure, commercial, and industrial buildings and structures by applying knowledge of design, construction procedures, zoning regulations, building codes, building materials and interior design. This category also includes home inspectors and mold services.

Business types included in this category:

• Architectural, Engineering and Related Services
• Interior Design Services

This industry includes auction businesses.

Business types included in this category:

• Other Support Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in preparing and serving alcoholic beverages for immediate consumption.

Business types included in this category:

• Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing food services at one or more of the following locations: (1) the customer’s location; or (2) a location designated by the customer.

Business types included in this category:

• Caterers
• Industrial Caterers

This industry includes businesses engaged in management of community associations and homeowners’ associations.

Business types included in this category:

• Other Support Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) providing expertise in the field of information technologies, (2) providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on management issues, (3) conducting scientific or technical research and development, (4) conducting emergency services in scientific or medical fields, (5) translation services, or (6) other consulting services.

Business types included in this category:

• Computer Systems Design and Related Services
• Management, Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
• Scientific Research and Development Services

This industry includes businesses engaged in the construction of buildings, roads, residential or other engineering projects. Projects typically include contractors and sub-contractors for new work, additions, alterations or maintenance and repairs.

Business types included in this category:

• Building Finishing Contractors
• Foundation, Structure, and Building Exterior Contractors
• Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
• Land Subdivision
• Nonresidential Building Construction
• Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
• Other Specialty Trade Contractors
• Residential Building Construction
• Utility System Construction

This industry comprises businesses that provide appearance care services to individual consumers. It includes barbershops; beauty salons; cosmetology salons; hair, nail, and skin care services; nail salons; body piercing salons; massage establishments; tanning salons; tattoo establishments; and other personal care services.

Business types included in this category:

• Personal Care Services

This industry includes a broad range of businesses, including dry cleaners, laundries, linen supply, pet care services, photofinishing, parking lots and garages, shoeshine services, coin-operated personal services machine (e.g., blood pressure, locker, photographic, scale, shoeshine), social escort services, consumer buying services, wedding planning services and dating services.

Business types included in this category:

• Dry Cleaning and Laundry Services
• Other Personal Services

This category includes businesses that provide instruction and training at any level. Any type of educational instruction or training that is provided by specialized establishment, such as schools, colleges, universities, and training centers are included in this business category.

Business types included in this category:

• Business Schools and Computer and Management Training
• Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
• Educational Support Services
• Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Junior Colleges
• Other Schools and Instruction
• Technical and Trade Schools

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in installing and servicing electrical wiring and equipment, lighting systems, alarm systems, plumbing, heating and Air-conditioning.

Business types included in this category:

• Building Equipment Contractors

This industry includes businesses that construct, install, inspect, maintain, or repair elevators, escalators and other vertical conveyances.

Business types included in this category:

• Construction Elevator Installation
• Elevator Installation
• Grain Elevator Construction
• Storage Elevator Construction

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) operating amusement parks and amusement arcades, (2) the preservation and exhibition of objects of historical, cultural, and/or educational value, (3) operating recreational facilities such as golf courses and bowling alleys, (4) operating fitness and exercise facilities, and (5) facilities that feature other active physical fitness conditioning or recreational sports activities, such as swimming, skating, or racquet sports.

Business types included in this category:

• Amusement Parks and Arcades
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
• Other Amusement and Recreational Industries

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing support activities for growing crops; raising livestock (e.g., cattle, goats, hogs, horses, poultry, sheep); or timber production.

Business types included in this category:

• Support Activities for Animal Production
• Support Activities for Crop Production
• Support Activities for Forestry

The industry includes businesses engaged the creation, liquidation, or change in ownership of financial assets.

Business types included in this category:

• Activities Related to Credit Intermediation
• Depository Credit Intermediation
• Monetary Authorities
• Nondepository Credit Intermediation
• Other Financial Investment Activities
• Other Investment Pools and Funds
• Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage
• Securities and Commodity Exchanges

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) the commercial catching or taking of finfish, shellfish, or miscellaneous marine products from a natural habitat (e.g., the catching of bluefish, eels, salmon, tuna, clams, crabs, lobsters, mussels, oysters, shrimp, frogs, sea urchins, and turtles), (2) commercial hunting and trapping; (3) operating commercial game preserves (such as game retreats;) and (4) operating hunting preserves. This category also includes taxidermy establishments.

Business types included in this category:

• Fishing
• Hunting and Trapping

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for wakes, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise). Funeral homes combined with crematories are included in this industry.

Business types included in this category:

• Death Care Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging in facilities known as hotels, motor hotels, resort hotels, motels and bed and breakfast inns. The establishments in this industry may offer food and beverage services, recreational services, conference rooms and convention services, laundry services, parking, and other services.

Business types included in this category:

• Traveler Accommodation

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in underwriting (assuming the risk, assigning premiums, and so forth) annuities and insurance policies; facilitating such underwriting by selling insurance policies, and by providing other insurance and employee-benefit related services, and Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles. This category also includes bail bonding services.

Business types included in this category:

• Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities
• Insurance and Employee Benefit Funds
• Insurance Carriers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing one or more of the following: (1) investigation and detective services; (2) guard and patrol services; and (3) picking up and delivering money, receipts, or other valuable items with personnel and equipment to protect such properties while in transit.

Business types included in this category:

• Investigation and Security Services

This category includes business services including legal advice and representation.

Business types included in this category:

• Legal Services

This includes businesses that have acquired a controlling interest in companies to influence management decisions. Economies of scale are achieved through consolidated administration and performance of essential activities.

Business types included in this category:

• Management of Companies and Enterprises

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or assembling (1) aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles; (2) aerospace engines, propulsion units, auxiliary equipment or parts; (3) aerospace parts; (4) railroad locomotives and railway tracks; (5) ships and boats; (6) shipyard activities; or (7) other transportation equipment.

Business types included in this category:

• Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing
• Other Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing
• Ship and Boat Building

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) brewing beer, ale, malt liquors and nonalcoholic beer, (2) growing grapes and manufacturing wines and brandies, (3) manufacturing wines and brandies from grapes and other fruits grown elsewhere, (4) blending wines and brandies, (5) distilling potable liquors (except brandies), distilling and blending liquors, and (6) blending and mixing liquors and other ingredients.

Business types included in this category:

• Breweries
• Distilleries
• Wineries

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing chemicals using basic processes, such as thermal cracking and distillation. Chemicals manufactured in this industry group are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically-defined compounds. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing synthetic resins, plastics materials, and nonvulcanizable elastomers and mixing and blending resins on a custom basis; (2) manufacturing noncustomized synthetic resins; and (3) manufacturing synthetic rubber, (4) manufacturing cellulosic (e.g., rayon, acetate) and noncellulosic (e.g., nylon, polyolefin, polyester) fibers and filaments in the form of monofilament, filament yarn, staple, or tow, (5) manufacturing and texturing cellulosic and noncellulosic fibers and filaments, and (6) manufacturing explosives.

Business types included in this category:

• Basic Chemicals
• Other Chemical Products and Preparations
• Resin, Synthetic Rubber, Synthetic Fibers, and Filaments

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or assembling computers, communications equipment, audio and video equipment, semiconductors, electronic components, electric lighting equipment and other electrical equipment and components.

Business types included in this category:

• Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
• Communications Equipment Manufacturing
• Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
• Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing
• Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
• Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media
• Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
• Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
• Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or transforming paints and other coatings, adhesives, plastics, rubber, clay, glass, cement, concrete, lime, gypsum and other nonmetallic mineral products.

Business types included in this category:

• Cement and Concrete
• Clay Product and Refractory Manufacturing
• Glass
• Lime and Gypsum
• Nonmetallic Mineral Product
• Paint, Coatings and Adhesives
• Plastics
• Rubber

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing food and feed for animals from ingredients (e.g., grains, oilseed mill products, and meat products), (2) milling flour or meal from grains or vegetables; (3) preparing flour mixes or dough from flour milled in the same establishment; (4) milling, cleaning, and polishing rice; and (5) manufacturing malt from barley, rye, or other grains, (6) processing sugar and chocolate products and confections, (7) manufacturing dairy products from raw milk, processed milk, and dairy substitutes, (8) slaughtering animals, (9) preparing processed meats and meat byproducts; (10) rendering and/or refining animal fat, bones, and meat scraps, (11) canning seafood (including soup), (12) smoking, salting, and drying seafood, (13) eviscerating fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones, and entrails, (14) shucking and packing fresh shellfish; (15) processing marine fats and oils, (16) freezing seafood, (16) manufacturing fresh and frozen bread and other bakery products, including tortillas, and (17) manufacturing other foods, such as snack foods, unpopped popcorn, roasted nuts, nut butter, coffee, tea, syrup, seasoning, dressing, spices, extracts, etc.

Business types included in this category:

• Animal Food
• Animal Slaughtering
• Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing
• Dairy Product
• Fruit and Vegetable
• Grain and Oilseed
• Other Food
• Seafood Product
• Sugar and Confectionary Product

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or assembling furniture, kitchen and other cabinets, and furniture-related products, such as mattresses, blinds and shades.

Business types included in this category:

• Household and Institutional Furniture and Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing
• Office Furniture and Fixtures Manufacturing
• Other Furniture Related Product Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing medical equipment and supplies. Examples of products made by these establishments are surgical and medical instruments, surgical appliances and supplies, dental equipment and supplies, orthodontic goods, ophthalmic goods, dentures, and orthodontic appliances.

Business types included in this category:

• Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing primary metals, fabricated metal products, machinery, cutlery, handtools, non-automotive engines, turbines and power transmission equipment. It also includes businesses engaged in forging, stamping, engraving, coating, powder coating, and heat treating, as well as machine shops.

Business types included in this category:

• Agriculture, Construction and Mining Machinery Manufacturing
• Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing
• Architectural and Structural Metals Manufacturing
• Boiler, Tank, and Shipping Container Manufacturing
• Coating, Engraving, Heat Treating, and Allied Activities
• Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
• Cutlery and Handtool Manufacturing
• Engine, Turbine, and Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing
• Forging and Stamping
• Foundries
• Hardware Manufacturing
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
• Machine Shops: Turn Product ; and Screw, Nut and Bolt Manufacturing
• Metalworking Machinery Manufacturing
• Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Production and Processing
• Other Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
• Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing
• Spring and Wire Product Manufacturing
• Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel

This industry includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or assembling (1) automobiles; (2) other motor vehicles; (3) motor vehicle bodies; (4) truck, automobile and utility trailers; or (5) motor vehicle parts.

Business types included in this category:

• Motor Vehicle Body and Trailer Manufacturing
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing goods that do not fit into other categories, including jewelry, silverware, sporting and athletic goods, dolls, toys, games, office supplies, signs, gaskets, packing devices, sealing devices, musical instruments, fasteners, buttons, needles, pins, brooms, brushes, mops, caskets, candles, etc.

Business types included in this category:

• Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials, (2) manufacturing fertilizers from sewage or animal waste, (3) manufacturing nitrogenous or phosphatic materials and mixing with other ingredients into fertilizers, (4) mixing ingredients made elsewhere into fertilizers, and (5) formulation and preparation of agricultural and household pest control chemicals.

Business types included in this category:

• Pesticides, Fertilizers and Agricultural Chemicals

This industry comprises businesses based on the transformation of crude petroleum and
coal into usable products. In addition, this category includes businesses that primarily further process refined petroleum and coal products and produce products, such as asphalt coatings and petroleum lubricating oils.

Business types included in this category:

• Petroleum and Coal Products

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing biological and medicinal products, (2) processing (i.e., grading, grinding, and milling) botanical drugs and herbs, (3) isolating active medicinal principals from botanical drugs and herbs, and (4) manufacturing pharmaceutical products
intended for internal and external consumption.

Business types included in this category:

• Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in printing on apparel and textile products, paper, metal, glass, plastics, and other materials, except fabric (grey goods). The printing processes employed include, but are not limited to, lithographic, gravure, screen, flexographic, digital, and letterpress. Establishments in this industry do not manufacture the stock that they print, but may perform post printing activities, such as folding, cutting, or laminating the materials they print, and mailing. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in performing prepress and postpress services in support of printing activities.

Business types included in this category:

• Printing and Related Support Activities

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing and packaging soap and other cleaning compounds, surface active agents, and textile and leather finishing agents used to reduce tension or speed the drying process. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in preparing, blending, compounding, and packaging toilet preparations, such as perfumes, shaving preparations, hair preparations, face creams, lotions (including sunscreens), and other cosmetic preparations.

Business types included in this category:

• Soap, Cleaning Compounds and Toilet Preparations

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing soft drinks; (2) manufacturing ice; and (3) purifying and bottling water.

Business types included in this category:

• Soft Drink and Ice Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) spinning yarn, (2) manufacturing thread of any fiber, (3) texturizing, throwing, twisting, and winding purchased yarn or manmade fiber filaments, (4) producing hemp yarn and further processing into rope or bags, (5) weaving fabrics and felts, (6) finishing of textiles, fabrics, and apparel, (7) converting and wholesale selling of grey fabric goods to finished on contract, (8) manufacturing and/or finishing woven, tufted, and other carpets and rugs, (9) knitting apparel or knitting fabric and then manufacturing apparel, (10) manufacturing apparel and accessories, (11) tanning, currying, and finishing hides and skins, (12) having others process hides and skins on a contract basis, (13) dyeing or dressing furs, (14) manufacturing footwear, and (15) manufacturing leather products.

Business types included in this category:

• Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel
• Apparel Knitting Mills
• Cut and Sew Apparel
• Fabric Mills
• Fiber, Yarn and Thread Mills
• Footwear
• Leather and Hide Tanning and Finishing
• Other Leather and Allied Product
• Other Textile Product Mills
• Textile/Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) the stemming and redrying of tobacco and/or (2) manufacturing cigarettes or other tobacco products.

Business types included in this category:

• Tobacco Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing ventilating, heating, air-conditioning, household appliances and refrigeration and freezer equipment.

Business types included in this category:

• Household Appliance Manufacturing
• Ventilation, Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing

This industry comprises businesses whose primary production process begins with logs or bolts that are
transformed into boards, dimension lumber, beams, timbers, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in manufacturing or converting (1) veneer and/or plywood, (2) engineered wood members, (3) reconstituted wood products, or (4) pulp, paper, or paperboard.

Business types included in this category:

• Converted Paper Product
• Other Wood
• Pulp, Paper & Paperboard
• Sawmills and Wood
• Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood

This industry comprises businesses that extract naturally occurring mineral solids, such as coal, limestone, phosphate, granite, marble and ores; liquid minerals, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas are also included in this business category. Businesses that support activities for mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction are also included in this category.

Business types included in this category:

• Coal Mining
• Metal Ore Mining
• Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
• Oil and Gas Extraction
• Support Activities for Mining

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing food services from motorized vehicles or nonmotorized carts.

Business types included in this category:

• Mobile Food Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in operating mobile home parks, recreational vehicle parks, campgrounds and recreational and vacation camps. These establishments accommodate outdoor enthusiasts and are characterized by the type of accommodation and by the nature and the range of recreational facilities and activities provided to their clients.

Business types included in this category:

• RV (Recreational Vehicle Parks and Recreational Camps)

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in operating gambling enterprises, such as pari-mutuel wagering facilities, slots, cardrooms, sweepstakes, game promotions and lottery.

Business types included in this category:

• Gambling Industries

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in producing or promoting live presentations involving the performances of actors and actresses, singers, dancers, musical groups and artists, and other performing artists. It also includes agents and managers primarily engaged in representing and/or managing creative and performing artists, entertainers, and other public figures.

Business types included in this category:

• Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures
• Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers
• Performing Arts Companies
• Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events

This category includes businesses providing health care and social assistance. The services provided by businesses in this category are delivered by trained professionals. All industries in the category share the labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. This category includes hospitals and health care clinics, and the business establishments of health practitioners such as doctors, dentists, marriage and family therapists, opticians, optometrists, orthotists, electrologists, dieticians, nutritionists, prosthetists and psychologists.

Business types included in this category:

• General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
• Individual and Family Services
• Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
• Offices of Dentists
• Offices of Other Health Practitioners
• Offices of Physicians
• Outpatient Care Centers
• Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals

This industry includes businesses that create information into a commodity. This includes production and distribution, transmission, data or communications; and those business that process data. It includes: (1) newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishing; (2) software publishing; (3) motion picture and video industries; (4) sound recording; (5) radio, television, cable and subscription broadcasting; (6) wired, wireless, satellite and other telecommunications; (7) data processing, hosting and related services; and (8) other information services.

Business types included in this category:

• Cable and Other Subscription Programming
• Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services
• Motion Picture and Video Industries
• Newspaper, Periodical, Book and Directory Publishers
• Other Information Services
• Other Telecommunications
• Radio and Television Broadcasting
• Satellite Telecommunications
• Software Publishers
• Sound Recording Industries
• Wired Telecommunications Carriers
• Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in acting as agents and/or brokers in one or more of the following: (1) selling real estate for others; (2) buying real estate for others; and (3) renting real estate for others.

Business types included in this category:

• Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers

This industry group comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing real estate services, such as managing real estate for others and appraising real estate.

Business types included in this category:

• Activities Related to Real Estate

This category covers organizations that organize and promote religious activities; support various causes through grantmaking; advocate various social and political causes; and promote and defend the interests of their members;
provide funding for specific causes or for a variety of charitable causes; establishments that advocate and actively promote causes and beliefs for the public good; and establishments that have an active membership structure to promote causes and represent the interests of their members; publish newsletters, books, and periodicals, for distribution to their membership; private households that engage in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household; may employ individuals, such as cooks, maids, butlers, and outside workers, such as gardeners, caretakers, and other maintenance workers.

Business types included in this category:

• Business, Professional, Labor, Political and Similar Organizations
• Civic and Social Organizations
• Grantmaking and Giving Services
• Private Households
• Religious Organizations
• Social Advocacy Organizations

This industry includes businesses that provide a wide array of tangible goods, such as automobiles, computers, consumer goods, and industrial machinery and equipment, to customers in return for a periodic rental or lease payment. It also includes businesses that are primarily engaged in assigning rights tassets, such as patents, trademarks, brand names, and/or franchise agreements for which a royalty payment or licensing fee is paid to the asset holder.

Business types included in this category:

• Automotive Equipment Rental and Leasing
• Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
• Consumer Goods Rental
• Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangibile Assets (except Copyrighted Works)

This industry comprises businesses involved in providing repair and maintenance services for automotive vehicles, such as passenger cars, trucks, and vans, and all trailers. Establishments in this industry group employ mechanics with specialized technical skills to diagnose and repair the mechanical and electrical systems for automotive vehicles, repair automotive interiors, and paint or repair automotive exteriors.

Business types included in this category:

• Automotive Repair and Maintenance

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in repairing (1) electronic equipment, such as computers and communications equipment, and highly specialized precision instruments. (2) commercial and industrial machinery and equipment, (3) home and garden equipment and appliances, and (4) liquified petroleum gas installers.

Business types included in this category:

• Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and Maintenance
• Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance
• Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance

This category includes businesses providing health care and social assistance. The services provided by businesses in this category are delivered by trained professionals. All industries in the category share the labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. This category includes home health care services, nursing care facilities, intellectual and developmental disability facilities, mental health facilities, emergency medical services, substance abuse facilities, residential care facilities, individual and family services, community food and housing, vocation rehabilitation services, hospice and child and adult day care services.

Business types included in this category:

• Child Day Care Services
• Community Food and Housing
• Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly
• Home Health Care Services
• Nursing Care Facilities
• Other Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Other Residential Care Facilities
• Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities
• Vocational Rehabilitation Services

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) providing food services to patrons who order and are served while seated (i.e., waiter/waitress service), and pay after eating; (2) providing food services to patrons who generally order or select items (e.g., at a counter, in a buffet line) and pay before eating; or (3) preparing and/or serving a specialty snack (e.g., ice cream, frozen yogurt, cookies) and/or nonalcoholic beverages (e.g., coffee, juices, sodas) for consumption on or near the premises.

Business types included in this category:

• Restaurants and Other Eating Places

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in retailing packaged alcoholic beverages, such as ale, beer, wine, and liquor.

Business types included in this category:

• Beer, Wine and Liquor Stores

This industry includes businesses that retail automotive fuels (e.g., gasoline, diesel fuel, gasohol, alternative fuels) and automotive oils or retail these products in combination with convenience store items. These establishments have specialized equipment for the storage and dispensing of automotive fuels.

Business types included in this category:

• Gasoline Stations

This industry comprises a broad category of businesses that are not included in other retail trade categories. It includes but is not limited to businesses that deal in durable and nondurable goods such as: furniture, home furnishings, art, construction materials, explosives, photography, office equipment, computers, metals, electronics, household appliances, hardware, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, machinery, sporting goods, jewelry, paper, printing, books, apparel, candles, etc.

Business types included in this category:

• Book Stores and News Dealers
• Building Material and Supplies Dealers
• Clothing Stores
• Department Stores
• Direct Selling Establishments
• Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
• Electronics and Appliance Stores
• Florists
• Furniture Stores
• Home Furnishings Stores
• Jewelry, Luggage, and Leather Goods Stores
• Office Supplies, Stationery, and Gift Stores
• Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers
• Shoe Stores
• Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Stores
• Used Merchandise Stores

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in retailing a general line of food products. It includes grocery stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, meat markets, fish and seafood markets, fruit and vegetable markets, and other retail stores that deal primarily in packaged food items.

Business types included in this category:

• Grocery Stores
• Specialty Stores

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in retailing lawn and garden equipment and supplies, outdoor power equipment, nursery products, or farm supplies.

Business types included in this category:

• Lawn and Garden Equipment and Supplies Store

This industry includes businesses engaged in retailing new and used automobiles, trucks, recreational vehicles (RVs), motorcycles, boats, etc. It also includes retailer in automotive parts, accessories and tires.

Business types included in this category:

• Automobile Dealers
• Automotive Parts, Accessories, and Tire Stores
• Other Motor Vehicle Dealers

This industry comprises businesses engaged in retail sale of prescription and nonprescription drugs and medicines, health and personal care products, cosmetics, perfumes, toiletries and personal grooming products.

Business types included in this category:

• Health and Personal Care Stores

This industry comprises businesses engaged in retailing cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipes, and other smokers’ supplies.

Business types included in this category:

• Tobacco Stores

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in operating rooming and boarding houses and similar facilities, such as fraternity houses, sorority houses, off-campus dormitories, residential clubs, and workers’ camps. These establishments provide temporary or longer-term accommodations which, for the period of occupancy, may serve as a principal residence. These establishments also may provide complementary services, such as housekeeping, meals, and laundry services.

Business types included in this category:

• Rooming and Boarding Houses

This category includes businesses that perform janitorial and cleaning services, pest control, landscape care and maintenance, and other services related to maintaining buildings and dwellings.

Business types included in this category:

• Facilities Support Services
• Services to Building and Dwellings

This industry comprises (1) sports teams or clubs primarily participating in live sporting events before a paying audience; (2) independent athletes engaged in participating in live sporting events before a paying audience; and (3) sports trainers, promoters and athletic agents.

Business types included in this category:

• Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures
• Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
• Spectator Sports

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This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in (1) the operation of timber tracts for the purpose of selling standing timber, (2) growing trees for reforestation and/or (3) gathering forest products ( such as gums, barks, balsam needles, rhizomes, fibers, Spanish moss, ginseng, and truffles), (4) cutting timber, (4) cutting and transporting timber, and/or (5) producing wood chips in the field.

Business types included in this category:

• Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products
• Logging
• Timber Tract Operations

This category includes industries providing air, rail and water-borne transportation of passengers and freight, and related support activities. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in providing scenic and sightseeing transportation by rail or water.

Business types included in this category:

• Deep Sea, Coastal and Great Lakes Water Transportation
• Inland Water Transportation
• Nonscheduled Air Transportation
• Rail Transportation
• Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Other
• Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Water
• Scheduled Air Transportation
• Support Activities for Air
• Support Activities for Rail
• Support Activities for Water

This category includes industries providing ground transportation of passengers and related support activities. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in providing scenic and sightseeing transportation on land, such as sightseeing buses.

Business types included in this category:

• Charter Bus Industry
• Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation
• Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
• Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Land
• School and Employee Bus Transportation
• Taxi and Limousine Service
• Urban Transit Systems

This category includes businesses providing transportation of cargo and related support activities, as well as motor vehicle towing.

Business types included in this category:

• Freight Transportation Arrangement
• General Freight Trucking
• Other Support Activities for Transportation
• Specialized Freight Trucking
• Support Activities for Road Transportation

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the pipeline transportation of crude oil, natural gas or other petroleum products.

Business types included in this category:

• Other Pipeline Transportation
• Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
• Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in acting as agents in selling travel, tour, and accommodation services to the general public and commercial clients.

Business types included in this category:

• Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services

This industry includes businesses engaged in the provision of utility services: electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage removal. Businesses that support activities for these utilities are also included in this business category.

Business types included in this category:

• Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
• Natural Gas Distribution
• Water, Sewage and Other Systems

This industry comprises businesses that provide vending machines primarily engaged in providing service of potentially hazardous foods, ice and water.

Business types included in this category:

• Vending Machine Operators

This industry comprises establishments of licensed veterinary practitioners primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery for animals; and establishments primarily engaged in providing testing services for licensed veterinary practitioners. It includes animal hospitals, veterinary clinics, veterinarian offices, and veterinary testing laboratories. It also includes veterinary prescription medicine wholesalers, retailers and distributors.

Business types included in this category:

• Veterinary Services

This industry includes businesses providing warehousing and storage of goods, postal service, couriers and messengers and other services associated with these businesses.

Business types included in this category:

• Couriers and Express Delivers Services
• Local Messengers and Local Delivery
• Postal Service
• Warehousing and Storage

This industry includes businesses that perform waste disposal and waste treatment services.

Business types included in this category:

• Remediation and Other Waste Management Services
• Waste Collection
• Waste Treatment and Disposal

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of (1) beer, ale, porter, and other fermented malt beverages, and/or (2) wine, distilled alcoholic beverages, and/or neutral spirits and ethyl alcohol used in blended wines and distilled liquors.

Business types included in this category:

• Beer, Wine, and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of agricultural products (except raw milk, live poultry, and fresh fruits and vegetables), such as grains, field beans, livestock, and other farm product raw materials (excluding seeds).

Business types included in this category:

• Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of farm supplies, such as animal feeds, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, pesticides, plant seeds, and plant bulbs.

Business types included in this category:

• Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of a general line (wide range) of groceries, including packaged foods, dairy products, poultry, confections, fish, seafood, meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, bakery products, soft drinks and canned goods.

Business types included in this category:

• Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises a broad category of businesses that are not included in other wholesale trade categories. It includes but is not limited to businesses that deal in durable and nondurable goods such as: furniture, home furnishings, art, construction materials, explosives, photography, office equipment, computers, metals, electronics, household appliances, hardware, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, machinery, sporting goods, jewelry, paper, printing, books, apparel, candles, etc.

Business types included in this category:

• Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers
• Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers
• Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers
• Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
• Household Appliances and Electronic Goods Merchant Wholesalers
• Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers
• Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
• Metal and Mineral (except Petroleum) Merchant Wholesalers
• Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers
• Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant Wholesalers
• Paper and Paper Product Merchant Wholesalers
• Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
• Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of
automobiles and other motor vehicles, motor vehicle supplies, tires, and new and used parts.

Business types included in this category:

• Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses with bulk liquid storage facilities primarily engaged in the merchant
wholesale distribution of crude petroleum and petroleum products, including liquefied petroleum gas.

Business types included in this category:

• Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of biological and medical products; botanical drugs and herbs; and pharmaceutical products intended for internal and external consumption. It also includes businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional medical equipment, instruments, and supplies (except ophthalmic equipment and instruments and goods used by ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians).

Business types included in this category:

• Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers
• Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
• Ophthalmic Goods Merchant Wholesalers

This industry comprises businesses primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of tobacco and its products, such as cigarettes, snuff, cigars, and pipe tobacco.

Business types included in this category:

• Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers