ISIC Class

Other residential care activities

ISIC Code 8790 — Class

Part of Group 879

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Explanatory Notes

This class includes the provision of residential and personal care services for persons, except the elderly and disabled, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not desire to live independently.

This class includes:

  • activities provided on a round-the-clock basis directed to provide social assistance to children and special categories of persons with some limits on ability for self-care, but where medical treatment or education are not important elements:
  • orphanages
  • children's boarding homes and hostels
  • temporary homeless shelters
  • institutions that take care of unmarried mothers and their children The activities may be carried out by public or private organizations.

This class also includes:

  • activities of:
  • halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
  • halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
  • disciplinary camps