Alternative aggregations 283 Table 4.6 Alternative structure for ISIC, Rev.4 group 889 (Other social work activities without accommodation) Section Division Group Class Description Q Human health and social work activities 86 Human health activities 861 8610 Hospital activities 8620 Medical and dental practice activities 869 8690 Other human health activities 87 Residential care activities 871 8710 Residential nursing care facilities 872 8720 Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse 873 8730 Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled 879 8790 Other residential care activities 88 Social work activities without accommodation 881 8810 Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled 889 Other social work activities without accommodation 8891 Child and youth service activities 8892 Other individual and family service activities 8893 Community food and housing service activities 8894 Temporary shelters 8895 Emergency and relief activities 8896 Vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities 8897 Child day care service activities 8898 Charitable or other supporting activities aimed at social work 8899 Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c. Table 4.7 Alternative structure for ISIC, Rev.4 group 949 (Activities of other membership organizations) Section Division Group Class Description S Other service activities 94 Activities of business, employers and professional membership organizations 941 9411 Activities of business and employers membership organizations 9412 Activities of professional membership organizations 942 9420 Activities of trade unions 949 Activities of other membership organizations 9491 Activities of religious organizations 9492 Activities of political organizations 9493 Grantmaking and giving activities 9494 Activities of human rights organizations 9495 Activities of environmental, conservation and wildlife organizations 9496 Activities of other social advocacy organizations 9497 Activities of cultural or recreational associations (other than sports or games) 9498 Activities of other civic and social organizations 9499 Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c.
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 284 Annex D.1 Descriptions of alternative classes in ISIC, Rev.4 group 889 8891 Child and youth service activities This class includes: welfare and guidance activities for children and adolescents — — adoption activities, activities for the prevention of cruelty to children and others — — 8892 Other individual and family service activities This class includes: household budget counselling, marriage and family guidance, credit and debt coun- — — selling services eligibility determination in connection with welfare aid, rent supplements or food — — stamps 8893 Community food and housing service activities This class includes: activities related to the collection, preparation, and delivery of food for the needy, such — — as food banks, soup kitchens, and meal delivery programs activities relating to the provision of transitional housing for low-income individuals — — and families activities relating to the volunteer construction or repair of low-cost housing, in part- — — nership with the homeowner who may assist in the work 8894 Temporary shelters This class includes: activities related to the provision of short-term emergency shelter for victims of domes- — — tic violence, sexual assault, or child abuse activities related to the provision of temporary residential shelter for homeless indi- — — viduals or families, runaway youth, and patients and families caught in medical crises 8895 Emergency and relief activities This class includes: activities for disaster victims, refugees, immigrants etc., including temporary or — — extended shelter for them 8896 Vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities This class includes: vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities for unemployed persons provided — — that the education component is limited 8897 Child day care service activities This class includes: activities providing day care of infants or children — —
Alternative aggregations 285 8898 Charitable or other supporting activities aimed at social work This class includes: charitable activities like fund-raising or other supporting activities aimed at social — — work 8899 Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c. This class includes: other social, counselling, welfare, refugee, referral and similar services which are deliv- — — ered to individuals and families in their homes or elsewhere and carried out by govern- ment offices or by private organizations, disaster relief organizations and national or local self-help organizations and by specialists providing counselling services: community and neighbourhood activities other than food and housing activities — — day facilities for the homeless and other socially weak groups — — This class excludes: funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes, see 8430 — — activities similar to those described in this class, but including accommodation, see 8790 — — child and youth service activities, see 8891 — — other individual and family service activities, see 8892 — — community food and housing service activities, see 8893 — — temporary shelters, see 8894 — — emergency and relief activities, see 8895 — — vocational rehabilitation and habilitation activities, see 8896 — — child day care service activities, see 8897 — — charitable or other supporting activities aimed at social work, see 8898 — — Annex D.2 Descriptions of alternative classes in ISIC, Rev.4 group 949 9493 Grantmaking and giving activities This class includes: grant giving activities by membership organizations or others — — 9494 Activities of human rights organizations This class includes: activities of organizations not directly affiliated to a political party furthering a public — — cause or issue by means of public education, political influence, fund-raising etc., such as ·citizens initiative or protest movements and organizations for the protection and betterment of special groups, e.g. ethnic and minority groups 9495 Activities of environmental, conservation and wildlife organizations This class includes: activities of organizations not directly affiliated to a political party furthering a public — — cause or issue by means of public education, political influence, fund-raising etc., such as environmental and ecological movements
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 286 9496 Activities of other social advocacy organizations This class includes: activities of organizations not directly affiliated to a political party furthering a public — — cause or issue by means of public education, political influence, fund-raising etc., such as organizations supporting community and educational facilities n.e.c. and associa- tions for patriotic purposes, including war veterans’ associations This class excludes: activities of human rights organizations, see 9494 — — activities of environmental, conservation and wildlife organizations, see 9495 — — 9497 Activities of cultural and recreational associations (other than sports or games) This class includes: associations for the pursuit of a cultural or recreational activity or hobby (other than — — sports or games), e.g. poetry, literature and book clubs, historical clubs, gardening clubs, film and photo clubs, music and art clubs, craft and collectors’ clubs, social clubs, carnival clubs etc. This class excludes: activities of sports clubs, see 9312 — — creative, arts and entertainment activities, see 9000 — — 9498 Activities of other civic and social organizations This class includes: consumer associations — — automobile associations — — associations for the purpose of social acquaintanceship such as rotary clubs, lodges — — etc. associations of youth, young persons’ associations, student associations, clubs and fra- — — ternities etc. This class excludes: activities of sports clubs, see 9312 — — cultural and recreational associations, see 9497 — — 9499 Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. This class includes: activities of membership organizations n.e.c. — — This class excludes: activities of sports clubs, see 9312 — — activities of professional associations, see 9412 — — grantmaking and giving activities, see 9493 — — activities of human rights organizations, see 9494 — — activities of environmental, conservation and wildlife organizations, see 9495 — — activities of other social advocacy organizations, see 9496 — — activities of cultural or recreational associations, see 9497 — — activities of other civic and social organizations, see 9498 — —
Part five Changes in ISIC, Rev.4
Changes in ISIC, Rev.4 289 I. Methodological changes 238. Although the structure of ISIC, Rev.4 is considerably different from its predecessor, the methodological aspects underpinning the scope, development and application of the classification remain largely unchanged. Some of the perceived changes are actually clarifications of the concepts or rules already used in previous versions of ISIC. 239. The scope of ISIC has been slightly enlarged through the explicit inclusion in section K (Finance and insurance activities) of classes 6420 (Activities of holding companies) and 6430 (Trusts, funds and similar financial entities), reflecting the rec- ognition of the activities of these units as productive activities within the system of national accounts. It should be noted however, that for practical purposes, reflecting the need to classify such units in countries’ business registers, these units have already been classified in the section covering financial activities in previous versions of ISIC even if they have not been explicitly recognized. 240. The criteria for delineating categories within ISIC remain the same, although the weights with which these criteria have been applied have changed (for more details, see part one, sect. II.B above). 241. In the rules for the application of the classification, only one explicit change has been made. In the case of multiple activities, the use of value added as the determining criterion is now universally applied to all cases; in other words, the excep- tion for the treatment of vertically integrated activities has been eliminated. 242. Other general application rules, such as the use of the top-down-method to determine the principal activity of a unit, remain unchanged. 243. It should be noted, however, that the application rules provided in ISIC, Rev.4 are more explicit than those provided in previous versions of the classification in two cases: the use of the top-down method for wholesale and retail sale activities, and the rules for the treatment of outsourcing of activities. ISIC, Rev.4 aims to clarify the rules in these two cases in more detail, while maintaining the original intent. Given the lack of detail of these descriptions in previous versions of ISIC, however, it is possible that some interpretations of these rules in the past may have been inconsistent with the current text. II. Structural changes 244. The fourth revision of ISIC has responded to a large number of requests from countries that have ultimately changed the overall structure and detail of the classification in very substantial ways. New concepts at the highest level of the classifi- cation have been introduced and new detail has been created to reflect different forms of production and newly emerging industries. At the same time, efforts have been made to maintain the structure of the classification in all areas that do not explicitly require change based on new concepts. 245. The detailed changes to ISIC, Rev.4 are too numerous to be listed here in their entirety. The reason for most of these changes, however, can be roughly divided into three categories: (a) the introduction of new concepts at higher levels (e.g., “infor- mation and communication” or “waste management and remediation activities”); (b) necessary changes to regroup activities that are residuals of the previous type of changes; and (c) smaller adjustments and clarifications of concepts at lower levels, typically driven by efforts to enhance comparability.
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 290 246. The forthcoming Companion Guide to ISIC and CPC provides a more detailed account and rationalization of these changes. Meanwhile, the most promi- nent changes to ISIC are set out below. 247. The ISIC, Rev.3.1 sections for agriculture and fishing have been combined and the detail under this new ISIC, Rev.4 section A (Agriculture, forestry and fishing) has been substantially increased. This is a response to continuing requests for more detail in this area, mostly due to the fact that agriculture is an important part of the economic structure in many countries. 248. New divisions in manufacturing, representing important new industries, have been created, such as divisions 21 (Manufacture of pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemical and botanical products) and 26 (Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products). The scope of the latter differs from division 30 (Manufacture of office, accounting and computing machinery) in ISIC, Rev.3.1, making it a better tool for statistics on high-technology products. Other new divisions, such as divisions 11 (Manufacture of beverages) and 31 (Manufacture of furniture), have resulted from splitting existing divisions and thus elevating their components, which previously existed at the group level, to the division level. 249. Most of the remaining divisions in section C (Manufacturing) remain unchanged, except ISIC 3.1 divisions 22 (Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media) and 37 (Recycling) many or all portions of which have been moved to other sections in ISIC, Rev.4 (see also below). 250. The repair and installation of machinery and equipment, which was for- merly classified under the manufacturing of the corresponding type of equipment, is now separately identified in division 33 (Repair and installation of machinery and equipment). All specialized repair activities are now separately classifiable in ISIC, although no high-level aggregate for “Repair” has been created. 251. A new section E (Water supply; sewerage, waste management and reme- diation activities) has been created, which includes the “sanitation” activities of ISIC, Rev.3.1 division 90, the water collection and distribution activities of ISIC, Rev.3.1 division 41 and materials recovery activities, which largely correspond to ISIC, Rev.3.1 division 37. This section now groups activities of a common policy interest but is also based on the actual organization of these activities in a large number of countries. The detail of these activities has been substantially increased. 252. The concept of “specialized construction activities” (also known as “spe- cial trades”) has been introduced in ISIC, Rev.4, replacing the division structure of the previous version, which was based largely on the stage of the construction process. 253. The repair of household goods has been removed from section G (Whole- sale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles). However, the anomaly of classifying trade and repair activities of motor vehicles and motorcycles in division 45 (corresponding to division 50 in ISIC, Rev.3.1) has been retained for comparability and continuity reasons. 254. The detail in section I (Accommodation and food service activities) has been increased to reflect the different nature and specialization of activities carried out. 255. A new section J (Information and communication) has been created, combining the activities of the production and distribution of information and cul- tural products; the provision of the means to transmit or distribute these products, data or communications; information technology activities; the processing of data and other information service activities. The main components of this section are publish-