SIC Codes - Division I - Major Group 83: Social Services

Major Group 83: Social Services

This major group includes establishments providing social services and rehabilitation services to those persons with social or personal problems requiring special services and to the handicapped and the disadvantaged. Also included are organizations soliciting funds to be used directly for these and related services. Establishments primarily engaged in providing health services are classified in Major Group 80; those providing legal services are classified in Industry 8111; and those providing educational services are classified in Major Group 82.

Industry Group 832: Individual And Family Social Services
- 8322 Individual And Family Social Services
  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. Government offices directly concerned with the delivery of social services to individuals and families, such as issuing of welfare aid, rent supplements, food stamps, and eligibility casework, are included here, but central office administration of these programs is classified in Public Administration, Industry 9441. Social Security offices are also classified in Public Administration, Industry 9441. Establishments primarily engaged in providing vocational rehabilitation or counseling are classified in Industry 8331; and fraternal, civic, and social associations are classified in Industry 8641.
  - Activity centers, elderly or handicapped
  - Adoption services
  - Adult day care centers
  - Aid to families with dependent children(AFDC)
  - Alcoholism counseling, nonresidential:except medical treatment
  - Centers for senior citizens
  - Child guidance agencies
  - Community centers
  - Counseling centers
  - Crisis centers
  - Crisis intervention centers
  - Day care centers, adult and handicapped
  - Disaster services
  - Emergency shelters
  - Family counseling services
  - Family location services
  - Family service agencies
  - Helping hand services
  - Homemaker's service, primarily nonmedical
  - Hotlines
  - Marriage counseling services
  - Meal delivery programs
  - Multiservice centers, neighborhood
  - Neighborhood centers
  - Offender rehabilitation agencies
  - Offender self-help agencies
  - Old age assistance
  - Outreach programs
  - Parole offices
  - Probation offices
  - Public welfare centers, offices of
  - Referral services for personal and social problems
  - Refugee services
  - Relief services, temporary
  - Self-help organizations for alcoholics and gamblers
  - Senior citizens associations
  - Service leagues
  - Settlement houses
  - Social service centers
  - Telephone counseling service
  - Traveler's aid centers
  - Youth centers
  - Youth self-help organizations

Industry Group 833: Job Training And Vocational Rehabilitation
- 8331 Job Training And Vocational Rehabilitation Services
  Establishments primarily engaged in providing manpower training and vocational rehabilitation and habilitation services for the unemployed, the underemployed, the handicapped, and to persons who have a job market disadvantage because of lack of education, job skill or experience. Included are upgrading and jobÄdevelopment services, skill training, world-of-work orientation, and vocational rehabilitation counseling. This industry includes offices of specialists providing rehabilitation and job counseling. Also included are establishments primarily engaged in providing work experience for rehabilitees.
  - Community service employment training programs
  - Job counseling
  - Job training
  - Manpower training
  - Rehabilitation counseling and training, vocational
  - Sheltered workshops
  - Skill training centers
  - Vocational rehabilitation agencies
  - Vocational rehabilitation counseling
  - Vocational training agencies, except schools
  - Work experience centers

Industry Group 835: Child Day Care Services
- 8351 Child Day Care Services
  Establishments primarily engaged in the care of infants or children, or in providing prekindergarten education, where medical care or delinquency correction is not a major element. These establishments may or may not have substantial educational programs. These establishments generally care for prekindergarten or preschool children, but may care for older children when they are not in school. Establishments providing babysitting services are classified in Industry 7299. Head Start centers operating in conjunction with elementary schools are classified in Industry 8211.
  - Child care centers
  - Day care centers, child
  - Group day care centers, child
  - Head Start centers, except in conjunction with schools
  - Nursery schools
  - Preschool centers

Industry Group 836: Residential Care
- 8361 Residential Care
  Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of residential social and personal care for children, the aged, and special categories of persons with some limits on ability for self-care, but where medical care is not a major element. Included are establishments providing 24-hour year-round care for children. Boarding schools providing elementary and secondary education are classified in Industry 8211. Establishments primarily engaged in providing nursing and health-related personal care are classified in Industry Group 805.
  - Alcoholism rehabilitation centers, residential: with health
  - Boys' towns
  - Children's boarding homes
  - Children's homes
  - Children's villages
  - Drug rehabilitation centers, residential: with health care incidental
  - Group foster homes
  - Halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
  - Halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
  - Homes for children, with health care incidental
  - Homes for destitute men and women
  - Homes for the aged, with health care incidental
  - Homes for the deaf or blind, with health care incidental
  - Homes for the emotionally disturbed, with health care incidental
  - Homes for the mentally handicapped, with health care incidental
  - Homes for the physically handicapped, with health care incidental
  - Juvenile correctional homes
  - Old soldiers' homes
  - Orphanages
  - Rehabilitation centers, residential: with health care incidental
  - Rest homes, with health care incidental
  - Self-help group homes for persons with social or personal problems
  - Training schools for delinquents

Industry Group 839: Social Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
- 8399 Social Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
  Establishments primarily engaged in providing social services, not elsewhere classified, including establishments primarily engaged in community improvement and social change. Organizations primarily engaged in soliciting contributions on their own account and administering appropriations and allocating funds among other agencies engaged in social welfare services are also included, but foundations and philanthropic trusts are classified in Finance, Industry 6732. Civic, social, and fraternal organizations are classified in Industry 8641; political organizations are classified in Industry 8651; and establishments which raise funds on a contract basis are classified in Industry 7389.
  - Advocacy groups
  - Antipoverty boards
  - Community action agencies
  - Community chests
  - Community development groups
  - Councils for social agencies, exceptional children, and poverty
  - Fundraising organizations, except on a contract or fee basis
  - Health and welfare councils
  - Health systems agencies
  - Regional planning organizations, for social services
  - Social change associations
  - Social service information exchanges: e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction
  - United fund councils