{
    "code": "8732",
    "title": "Commercial Economic, Sociological, and Educational Research",
    "sic_manual": "OSHA SIC Manual",
    "level": "Industry",
    "major_group_code": "87",
    "parent_code": "873",
    "parent_title": "Research, Development, and Testing Services",
    "plain_english_definition": "",
    "summary_plain": "",
    "official_definition": "Establishments primarily engaged in performing commercial business, marketing, opinion, and other economic, sociological, and educational research on a contract or fee basis.",
    "official_source": "https://www.osha.gov/sic-manual/8732",
    "classification_note": "",
    "included_activities": [
        "Business economists, commercial",
        "Business research commercial",
        "Market research commercial"
    ],
    "excluded_activities": [
        {
            "label": "Noncommercial economic, sociological, and educational research establishments funded from endowments, grants, or contributions are classified in industry 8733.",
            "code": "",
            "title": "",
            "url": ""
        }
    ],
    "confused_codes": [],
    "official_siblings": [
        {
            "code": "8731",
            "title": "Commercial Physical and Biological Research",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8731/commercial-physical-biological-research",
            "label": "Industry"
        },
        {
            "code": "8732",
            "title": "Commercial Economic, Sociological, and Educational Research",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8732/commercial-economic-sociological-educational-research",
            "label": "Industry"
        },
        {
            "code": "8733",
            "title": "Noncommercial Research Organizations",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8733/noncommercial-research-organizations",
            "label": "Industry"
        },
        {
            "code": "8734",
            "title": "Testing Laboratories",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8734/testing-laboratories",
            "label": "Industry"
        }
    ],
    "official_children": [],
    "related_naics_codes": [
        {
            "code": "541720",
            "title": "Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/541720/research-development-in-social-sciences-humanities"
        },
        {
            "code": "541910",
            "title": "Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/naics-code/541910/marketing-research-public-opinion-polling"
        }
    ],
    "example_companies": [
        {
            "name": "Interviewing Service America",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/interviewing-service-america",
            "city": "Van Nuys",
            "state": "CA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "NPD Group Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/npd-group-inc",
            "city": "Port Washington",
            "state": "NY",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "National Research Corp",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/national-research-corp",
            "city": "Lincoln",
            "state": "NE",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Burke",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/burke",
            "city": "Cincinnati",
            "state": "OH",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Informa Research Services Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/informa-research-services-inc",
            "city": "Agoura Hills",
            "state": "CA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Dieringer Research Group Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/dieringer-research-group-inc",
            "city": "Brookfield",
            "state": "WI",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Directions Research Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/directions-research-inc",
            "city": "Cincinnati",
            "state": "OH",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Mark Facey And Company",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/mark-facey-and-company",
            "city": "Bristol",
            "state": "CT",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Eastern Research Group Inc",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/eastern-research-group-inc",
            "city": "Lexington",
            "state": "MA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Knowledge Networks",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/knowledge-networks",
            "city": "Palo Alto",
            "state": "CA",
            "reviewed": false
        },
        {
            "name": "Concurrent Technologies Corp",
            "url": "https://siccode.com/business/concurrent-technologies-corp",
            "city": "Johnstown",
            "state": "PA",
            "reviewed": false
        }
    ],
    "company_count": 5941,
    "email_contact_count": 2518,
    "phone_count": 4819,
    "website_count": 6171,
    "database_as_of": "Nov 6, 2026",
    "count_type": "commercial",
    "count_disclaimer": "These are SICCODE.com commercial database counts, not official government establishment totals. Website-Reviewed & Enriched is a separate review of company websites for products, services, markets, and fit.",
    "canonical_url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8732/commercial-economic-sociological-educational-research",
    "json_url": "https://siccode.com/sic-code/8732.json",
    "reviewed_by": "SICCODE.com Classification Review Team",
    "last_updated": "October 2026"
}