ISIC Rev.4 draft, Section O

1
ISIC Rev.4 draft, Section O Administrative
and support service activities

• United Nations Statistics Division
• Workshop on Classifications, Montevideo, Uruguay,
  14-18 March 2005

2
Structure of section O

• 71 Employment activities
• 72 Travel agencies, tour operators and other
  reservation service activities
• 73 Investigation and security activities
• 74 Services to buildings and landscape
  activities
• 75 Office administrative, business support and
  other support service activities

3
Section O

• A new section combining general support service
  activities typically provided to businesses
• Support day to day operation of businesses
• Size of this section depends also on the
  treatment of ancillary units
• Scope (approximately)
• ISIC 3.1 749 Business activities, n.e.c. except
  Photographic activities
• ISIC 3.1 6304 travel agencies, tour operators
• Other correction items

4
ISIC 4, 71 Employment activities ISIC 3.1
711 7110 Activities of employment placement agencies 7491, 9249
712 7120 Temporary help activities 7491
713 7130 Human resources provision and management of human resources functions 7491

• Changes made
• on-line employment placement agencies added in
  the scope of 7110
• title of 7120 changed to Temporary employment
  agency activities

5
ISIC Rev.4 draft, Div. 71

• An increasingly growing area of services
• Activities formerly belonging to a class are
  elevated to a division
• More detail introduced
• Clear activity language describing the services
  activities involved

6
ISIC Rev.4 draft, Div. 71

• Scope
• Listing employment vacancies, referring or
  placing applicants for employment 7110
• Supplying workers to clients businesses for
  limited periods of time 7120
• Providing human resources and human resource
  management services for client businesses - 7130
• Addresses the outsourcing of human resources
  management
• Supervision and running of the business is not
  included!

7
ISIC 4, 72 Travel agencies, tour operators and other reservation service activities ISIC 3.1
721 Travel agencies and tour operators service activities
7211 Travel agencies 6304
7212 Tour operators 6304
722 7220 Other reservation services 6304, 9214, 9219, 9241, 9249
8
ISIC Rev. 4 draft, Div. 72

• Activities formerly belonging to a class are
  elevated to a division
• The breakdown follows the proposal of WTO
• Scope
• Agencies primarily engaged in selling travel,
  tour, transportation and accommodation services
  7211
• Arranging and assembling tours that are sold
  through travel agencies or directly by tour
  operators 7212
• Other reservation service activities - 7220
• All ticket sales included here
• Former section Transport, storage and
  communications improved!
• (cleaned up of travel, tour and
  telecommunications)

9
ISIC 4, 73 Investigation and security activities ISIC 3.1
731 7310 Investigation, Guard, and Armored Car Services 7492
732 7320 Security systems service activities 5260, 7492

• Changes made after consultation and TSG meetings
• The first class above split into two new classes
• 7310 Private security activities
• 7330 Investigation activities
• The rationale for the split is the different
  nature of private security vs. investigation
  activities.

10
ISIC Rev.4 draft, Div. 73

• Activities formerly belonging to a class are
  elevated to a division more detail
• Question in the draft Should Investigation,
  guard and armored car services be moved to
  Public Administration?
• The majority of replies support these activities
  remaining in this section.
• 7320 Security systems service activities
• Monitoring or remote monitoring of electronic
  security alarm systems, their installation and
  maintenance
• May include selling but monitoring or remote
  monitoring is the essence
• Only selling of such systems is excluded

11
ISIC 4, 74 Services to buildings and landscape activities ISIC 3.1
741 7410 Facilities support activities 7020, 7514
742 Cleaning activities
7421 General interior cleaning of buildings 7493
7429 Other building and industrial cleaning activities 7493, 9000
743 7430 Landscape care and maintenance service activities 0140
12
ISIC Rev. 4 draft, Div. 74

• 741 scope
• Provision of operating staff to perform a
  combination of support services within clients
  facilities, day-to-day operation to maintain
  general functionality of the facility
• Not involved with businesses, institutions or
  tenants in the facility
• It includes the operation of government owned or
  occupied buildings
• 742 scope
• All cleaning of buildings, industrial machinery
  and other specialized cleaning
• More detail introduced a class elevated to a
  group

13
Changes made after consultation and TSG meetings

• 741 and 7410 titles changed to Combined
  facilities support activities
• 7421 title changed to General cleaning of
  buildings.
• mostly interior cleaning of buildings
• it may include associated, non-specialized
  exterior areas such as windows and passageways
• 7421 vs. 7429 is general interior vs.
  specialized and other

14
ISIC Rev. 4 draft, Div 74

• A new treatment for landscape care and
  maintenance
• 3 components of landscaping activities
• Landscape design and architecture services
• Placed in 6610 (professional service activity)
• Construction activities for landscaping purposes
• Placed in 4030 (construction activity)
• Landscape care and maintenance service activities
• The full class 7430
• Minor incidental design and construction services
  are included
• Question in the draft
• Do you support keeping landscape care and
  maintenance activities here, or would you favor
  its placement within Agriculture (as it has been
  before) or Construction?
• The majority support Landscape care and
  maintenance remaining in this section.

15
ISIC 4, 75 Office administrative, business support and other support service activities ISIC 3.1
751 Office administrative and business support activities
7511 Office administrative service activities 7499
7512 Business service activities 7499
7519 Other Business Support Services 7499
752 7520 Activities of call centres 7499
753 Support service activities, n.e.c.
7531 Activities of collection agencies and credit bureaus 7499, 7511
7532 Convention and Trade Show Organizers 7499
7533 Packaging activities 7495
7539 Other support activities n.e.c. 7499, 7513
16
ISIC Rev. 4 draft, Div. 75

• Activities mostly belonging to former 7499 are
  separately identified, new detail introduced
• 751 scope
• Provision of office administrative services and
  routine business support functions for others on
  a contract or fee basis
• 752 scope
• Activities of call centers Client relation and
  client service related technical intermediary
  services for the account of others

17
ISIC Rev.4 draft, Div. 75

• 753
• A n.e.c. group
• Includes among others Convention and Trade Show
  Organizers
• Question in the draft
• There has been a proposal to broaden the scope
  of Division 72 Activities of travel agencies,
  tour operators and other reservation service
  activities to include also this class
  Convention and Trade Show Organizers as a
  whole, either at the third or fourth level of
  Div.72. What is your opinion?
• Remain here but promoted at group level.

18
Changes made in 75 after consultation and TSG
meetings

• 751 title changed to Office administrative and
  support activities
• 7511 title changed to Combined office
  administrative service activities
• Intent To recognize the units that do the office
  administrative work for others on a contract or
  fee basis, ex doctor/group of doctors hiring a
  company that does the admin work, accepting the
  new patients, dealing with insurance matters, etc

19
Changes made in 75 after consultation and TSG
meetings (contd)

• 7512 title changed to Photocopying, document
  preparation and other office support service
  activities
• Intent To classify units that provide a variety
  of mentioned services, but not the combination at
  once as 7511, a variety but individually, one at
  a time
• 7519 grouped with 7539 Other support activities,
  n.e.c. , because both of an other or n.e.c.
  nature
• Convention and trade show organizers renumbered
  and promoted as group 753
• Some further renumbering as result of the above.