Real estateReal estate did not get its own sector in the North American Industry Classification System. Instead it is a sub-sector within a bigger sector entitled Real Estate and Rental and Leasing. Rental and leasing establishments rent or lease cars, trucks, RV’s, appliances, formal ware, costume ware, videos, health equipment, commercial machinery and equipment, or just about anything you can imagine. It is the real estate sub-sector that interests us here with 1.43 million jobs in 2010. Real estate establishments sell, buy or rent real estate...
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Service Jobs - Information Services
Posted on 11:19 by Unknown
Information ServicesThe NAICS definition of Information Services attempts to include all the establishments that produce, distribute or transmit information or cultural products. Establishments publishing books, magazines, newspapers, films, sound recordings or producing television and radio programming are included here. Establishments that distribute and transmit information include a variety of telecommunications: phone service, cellular, paging, cable, satellite, Internet Service, web search firms, and libraries. These establishments tend to...
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Service Jobs - Non-Profit Organizations
Posted on 13:22 by Unknown
Non-Profit OrganizationsWe can sympathize with the drafters and crafters of the North American Industry Classification system. These people are good at organization and classification, but as things went on they found a few industries that would not fit, leftovers too small to stand alone and too disparate to have a common name. Hence, they declared a sector called Other, which is really four sub sectors of very different services. Allow me to give their definition, which I cite exactly. “Establishments in this sector are primarily engaged in...
Friday, 9 November 2007
Service Jobs - Finance
Posted on 13:14 by Unknown
Finance and Insurance ServicesAmerica has 5.7 million people with jobs in 4 separate NAICS sub sectors that handle financial transactions and not much else. The biggest share of these jobs goes into establishments defined as credit intermediaries, which have 2.5 million of the 5.7 million jobs.Most of the establishments in credit intermediation are still known as banks, savings and loan, credit unions, but there are others. Credit intermediaries accept deposits and make loans, but credit intermediaries also include lenders that do not accept deposits:...
Monday, 5 November 2007
Service Jobs - Management
Posted on 13:22 by Unknown
Management of Companies and EnterprisesThis sector is the oddball of the NAICS classification system. An important reason for defining a management sector comes from the emphasis on reporting data and information at the establishment level. A firm can have many establishments scattered around at different locations where some establishments within the larger firm might be just head offices or administrative offices. Other establishments might be doing the firm’s productive work with some management, but establishments primarily engaged in managing...
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