MSIC 879—Other residential care activities

Where 879 sits

1. R Human Health and Social Work Activities
2. 87 Residential care activities
3. 879 Other residential care activities

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 8791 Intermediation service activities for residential care activities
• 8799 Other residential care activities n.e.c.

What 879 includes

• This group includes the intermediation of residential care activities, by bringing clients and service providers together for a fee or commission, without the intermediary providing the residential care services that are intermediated. These intermediation activities can be carried out on digital platforms or through non-digital channels (face-to-face including door-to-door, phone, mail etc. The fee or commission can be received from either the client or the provider of the residential care service. Revenue for the intermediation activities can include other sources of income, such as revenues from advertising.
• This group includes the provision of residential care and assistance services for persons, except older persons and persons with disabilities, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not wish to live on their own which includes residential and social assistance activities provided on a round-the-clock basis to special categories of persons, but where medical treatment or education are not essential elements such as orphanages, children's boarding homes and hostels, provision of residential services for homeless persons, refugees, immigrants etc., and other residential family support activities.
• The activities usually carried out by government offices or private organisations are halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems, halfway homes for delinquents and offenders, and juvenile correction homes.

What 879 excludes

• This group excludes intermediation service activities for medical, dental and other human health services (see class 8691) , funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes (see class 8430) , activities of nursing care facilities (see class 8710) , provision of residential nursing and rehabilitative services for persons living with or having a diagnosis of a mental illness (see class 8720) , residential care activities for persons having a diagnosis of intellectual disability (see class 8720) , residential care activities for older persons or persons with physical disabilities (see class 8730) , adoption activities (see class 8890) and child day-care activities (see class 8890) .

879 in other systems