ISIC Code 8790 - Other Residential Care Activities
Inclusions
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.
- Activities of:
- Halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
- Halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
- Disciplinary camps
Exclusions
This class excludes:
- Funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes, see ISIC Code - 8430
- Activities of nursing care facilities, see ISIC Code - 8710
- Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse, see ISIC Code - 8720
- Residential care activities for the elderly or disabled, see ISIC Code - 8730
- Adoption activities, see ISIC Code - 8890
- Short-term shelter activities for disaster victims, see ISIC Code - 8890