SCIANSubsector

SCIAN 541—Professional, scientific and technical services

Subsector · Sistema de Clasificación Industrial de América del Norte (2023)

Where 541 sits

54 Professional, scientific and technical services
541 Professional, scientific and technical services

Contains 9 narrower codes

Description

Economic units primarily engaged in providing professional, scientific and technical services, such as legal, accounting and auditing services, architecture and engineering, specialized design, computer systems design, administrative, scientific and technical consulting, scientific research and development, advertising, market research and public opinion surveys, photography and video recording, translation and interpretation, veterinary services, and other professional, scientific and technical services.

What 541 includes

Establishments primarily engaged in the public brokerage; to photogrammetry, topography, land surveying and cadastral surveying services; to the planning, design and development of softwareat the client's request; to consulting in the administration of public services and telecommunications; to marketing consulting; to actuarial consulting (in compensation and employee benefits); to healthcare consulting; to the certification of administrative systems; to advertising consulting; to lobbying, political consulting, and public relations services; to aerial advertising; to the placement of advertisements and the design of advertisements (with the subcontracting of another economic unit to manufacture them); to the design and execution of direct mail advertising campaigns combined with the compilation, maintenance, rental, and sale of lists of potential clients; economic units that, without being notaries, are primarily dedicated to supporting the registration of property titles, verifying that all the documentation necessary to carry out a sale of real estate is in order, and preparing the corresponding paperwork; to investigating whether the property to be sold meets all legal requirements; sales promotion agencies, that is, agencies that plan advertising, organize, and develop promotional campaigns that stimulate the consumer to select goods or services; Veterinary clinical analysis laboratories, and artists dedicated exclusively to generating drawings and illustrations, requiring technical accuracy and interpretive skill.

Cross-references for 541

Establishments primarily engaged in the artificial insemination and animal sperm banks (115, Services related to agricultural and forestry activities); mining; mineral exploration or prospecting (21, Mining); construction supervision; construction of buildings and civil engineering works; construction of urbanization works; architectural or engineering services in combination with construction activities; assembly or installation of prefabricated structures for advertising boards; installation of false walls and ceilings; installation of cabling for networks and computers (23, Construction); assembly and serial assembly of manufactured parts and components; design and manufacture of clothing models for mass reproduction; manufacture of advertising signs of all kinds; integrated design with the manufacture of advertisements (31-33, Manufacturing industries); trade in furniture, paintings, curtains and other objects for interior decoration (46, Retail trade); customs agencies (488, Transportation-related services); production of video clips, commercials, and other audiovisual materials, not carried out by television stations; post-production of motion pictures and videos; transcription of dialogues inserted in films—subtitling; film laboratories (512, Film and video industry, and sound industry); publishing of books, comics, atlases, and maps; development and editing ofsoftwaremass or packaged; to the editing, sale and licensing of mailing lists, without the design and execution of direct mail advertising campaigns (513, Publishing of newspapers, magazines, books, directories, softwareand other materials); to provide access to softwareas an application offered on shared or dedicated servers; to web hosting; to electronic information processing (518, Provision of infrastructure for computing services, data processing, web hosting and other related services); to providing investment advisory services in the stock market (523, Stock market, foreign exchange and financial investment activities); to the valuation of real estate (531, Real estate services); to providing a variety of administrative services for the daily management of businesses; to executive search consulting; to providing payment services on behalf of clients, which do not involve any legal formalities; to typing, data entry and formatting of texts; to simultaneous transcription of dialogues for television and in meetings and conferences; to pest control and extermination in buildings; to the installation and maintenance of green areas; to the organization and promotion of congresses, conventions and trade and industrial fairs (561, Business support services); to provide hazardous or non-hazardous waste management services (562, Waste Management and Remediation Services); to provide executive training; to non-formal language teaching; to educational consulting (611, Educational Services); to provide medical and diagnostic analysis services for individuals (621, Outpatient Medical and Related Services); to vehicle inspection and general mechanical repair of automobiles and trucks in combination with vehicle inspection services (811, Repair and Maintenance Services); to provide photograph developing and printing services; pet boarding, grooming, and hair and nail trimming services; coin-operated photo booth services (812, Personal Services); government economic units primarily engaged in generating cadastral information (931, Legislative, Governmental, and Judicial Activities); freelance artistic photographers, theatrical costume designers, and cartoonists (711, Artistic, Cultural, and Sports Services, and Other Related Services).