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5 == COPNI: DIVISIONS ==
6
7 **//Housing//**
8
9 **//Health//**
10
11 **//Recreation and culture//**
12
13 **//Education//**
14
15 **//Social protection//**
16
17 **//Religion//**
18
19 **//Political parties, labour and professional organizations//**
20
21 **//Environmental protection//**
22
23 **//Services n.e.c.//**
24
25 == COPNI: BREAKDOWN BY DIVISION AND GROUP ==
26
27 **HOUSING**
28
29 HOUSING
30
31 **HEALTH**
32
33 MEDICAL PRODUCTS, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT
34
35 OUTPATIENT SERVICES
36
37 HOSPITAL SERVICES
38
39 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
40
41 R&D HEALTH
42
43 OTHER HEALTH SERVICES **03** **RECREATION AND CULTURE**
44
45
46 RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING SERVICES
47
48 CULTURAL SERVICES
49
50 **EDUCATION**
51
52 PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
53
54 SECONDARY EDUCATION
55
56 POST-SECONDARY NON-TERTIARY EDUCATION
57
58 TERTIARY EDUCATION
59
60 EDUCATION NOT DEFINABLE BY LEVEL
61
62 R&D EDUCATION
63
64 OTHER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
65
66 **SOCIAL PROTECTION**
67
68 SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES
69
70 R&D SOCIAL PROTECTION
71
72 **RELIGION**
73
74 06.0 RELIGION
75
76 **POLITICAL PARTIES, LABOUR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS**
77
78 SERVICES OF POLITICAL PARTIES
79
80 SERVICES OF LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS
81
82 SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
83
84 **ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION**
85
86 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICES
87
88 R&D ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
89
90 **SERVICES N.E.C.**
91
92 SERVICES N.E.C.
93
94 R&D SERVICES N.E.C.
95
96 == COPNI: DEFINITION BY CLASS ==
97
98
99 **HOUSING //01.0//** **//HOUSING//**
100
101 **//01.0.0//** **//Housing//**
102
103 This class covers the following NPISHs:
104
105 − Associations that undertake the development, construction, management, leasing, financing, renovation and rehabilitation of housing.
106
107 1. **HEALTH**
108
109 This division includes the following NPISHs:
110
111 − General and specialized hospitals, nursing and convalescent homes, medical and maternity centres, hospices for terminally ill persons;
112
113 − surgeries, clinics, vaccination centres and dispensaries;
114
115 − rehabilitation centres where the objective is to treat patients rather than to provide long-term support;
116
117 − volunteer organizations for ambulance crews and paramedical personnel that provide emergency medical services;
118
119 − organizations that promote public health and health education;
120
121 − organizations that provide medical services to persons who are victims of wars, famines and natural catastrophes whether in their own country or abroad;
122
123 − organizations that undertake research and scientific studies on medical and health matters and trust funds or charitable organizations that finance such activities;
124
125 − charitable foundations that provide financial support for hospitals, nursing homes, surgeries, etc. and charitable foundations that provide financial support for patients. //Includes// : hospitals, nursing homes, surgeries, etc. funded by religious organizations.
126
127 //Excludes// : residential homes for elderly or disabled persons (05.1.0); shelters for homeless persons (05.1.0).
128
129 **//02.1//** **//MEDICAL PRODUCTS, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT//**
130
131 This group covers medicaments, prostheses, medical appliances and equipment and other health-related products obtained by individuals or households, either with or without a prescription, usually from dispensing chemists, pharmacists or medical equipment suppliers. They are intended for consumption or use outside a health facility or institution. Such products supplied directly to outpatients by medical, dental and paramedical practitioners or to in-patients by hospitals and the like are included in outpatient services (02.2) or hospital services (02.3).
132
133 **//02.1.1//** **//Pharmaceutical products//**
134
135 − Provision of pharmaceutical products such as medicinal preparations, medicinal drugs,
136
137 patent medicines, serums and vaccines, vitamins and minerals, cod liver oil and halibut liver oil, oral contraceptives.
138
139 **//02.1.2//** **//Other medical products//**
140
141 − Provision of medical products such as clinical thermometers, adhesive and nonadhesive bandages, hypodermic syringes, first-aid kits, hot-water bottles and ice bags, medical hosiery items such as elasticated stockings and knee pads, pregnancy tests, condoms and other mechanical contraceptive devices.
142
143 **//02.1.3//** **//Therapeutic appliances and equipment//**
144
145 − Provision of therapeutic appliances and equipment such as corrective eyeglasses and contact lenses, hearing aids, glass eyes, artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices, orthopaedic braces and supports, orthopaedic footwear, surgical belts, trusses and supports, neck braces, medical massage equipment and health lamps, powered and unpowered wheelchairs and invalid carriages, “special” beds, crutches, electronic and other devices for monitoring blood pressure, etc.
146
147 //Includes// : dentures but not fitting costs; repair of therapeutic appliances and equipment.
148
149 //Excludes// : hire of therapeutic equipment (02.2.3).
150
151 **//02.2//** **//OUTPATIENT SERVICES//**
152
153 This group covers medical, dental and paramedical services delivered to outpatients by medical, dental and paramedical practitioners and auxiliaries. The services may be delivered at home, in individual or group consulting facilities, dispensaries or the outpatient clinics of hospitals and the like.
154
155 Outpatient services include the medicaments, prostheses, medical appliances and equipment and other health-related products supplied directly to outpatients by medical, dental and paramedical practitioners and auxiliaries.
156
157 Medical, dental and paramedical services provided to in-patients by hospitals and the like are included in hospital services (02.3).
158
159 **//02.2.1//** **//Medical services//**
160
161 − Provision of medical services by general medical practitioners and specialist medical practitioners.
162
163 //Includes// : services of orthodontic specialists.
164
165 //Excludes// : services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres (02.2.3); services of practitioners of traditional medicine (02.2.3).
166
167 **//02.2.2//** **//Dental services//**
168
169 − Provision of dental services by dentists, oral hygienists and other dental auxiliaries. //Includes// : fitting costs of dentures//.//
170
171 //Excludes// : dentures (02.1.3); services of orthodontic specialists (02.2.1); services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres (02.2.3).
172
173 **//02.2.3//** **//Paramedical services//**
174
175 − Provision of paramedical services such as:
176
177 * services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres;
178 * services of nurses and midwives;
179 * services of acupuncturists, chiropractors, optometrists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, etc.;
180 * medically prescribed corrective-gymnastic therapy;
181 * outpatient thermal bath or sea-water treatments;
182 * ambulance services other than hospital ambulance services; - hire of therapeutic equipment.
183
184 //Includes//: services of practitioners of traditional medicine.
185
186 //Excludes//: public health service laboratories (02.4.0); laboratories engaged in determining the causes of disease (02.5.0).
187
188 **//02.3 HOSPITAL SERVICES//**
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190 Hospitalization is defined as occurring when a patient is accommodated for the duration of the treatment. Hospital day-care and home-based hospital treatment are included, as are hospices for terminally ill persons.
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192 This group covers the services of general and specialist hospitals, the services of medical centres, maternity centres, nursing homes and convalescent homes which chiefly provide in-patient services, the services of institutions serving old people in which medical monitoring is an essential component and the services of rehabilitation centres providing in-patient health care and rehabilitative therapy where the objective is to treat the patient rather than to provide long-term support.
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194 Hospitals are defined as institutions which offer in-patient care under direct supervision of qualified medical doctors. Medical centres, maternity centres, nursing homes and convalescent homes also provide in-patient care but their services are supervised and frequently delivered by staff of lower qualification than medical doctors.
195
196 This group does not cover facilities, such as surgeries, clinics and dispensaries, devoted exclusively to outpatient care (02.2). Nor does it include retirement homes for elderly persons, institutions for disabled persons and rehabilitation centres providing primarily long-term support (05.1).
197
198 **//02.3.0 Hospital services//**
199
200 − Provision of the following services to hospital patients:
201
202 * basic services: administration; accommodation; food and drink; supervision and care by nonspecialist staff (nursing auxiliaries); first aid and resuscitation; ambulance transport; provision of medicines and other pharmaceutical products; provision of therapeutic appliances and equipment;
203 * medical services: services of physicians in general or specialist practice, of surgeons and of dentists; medical analysis and x-rays; paramedical services such as those of nurses, midwives, chiropractors, optometrists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, etc.
204
205 **//02.4//** **//PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES//**
206
207 **//02.4.0//** **//Public health services//**
208
209 − Provision of public health services such as preparation and dissemination of information on public health matters, family planning services, blood-bank operation (collecting, processing, storing, shipping), disease detection (cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease), prevention (immunization, inoculation), monitoring (infant nutrition, child health), epidemiological data collection and so forth.
210
211 //Includes// : public health services delivered by special teams to groups of clients, most of whom are in good health, at workplaces, schools or other non-medical settings; public health services not connected with a hospital, clinic or practitioner; public health services not delivered by medically qualified doctors; public health service laboratories.
212
213 //Excludes// : medical analysis laboratories (02.2.3); laboratories engaged in determining the causes of disease (02.5.0).
214
215 **//02.5//** **//R&D HEALTH//**
216
217 **//02.5.0//** **//R&D Health//**
218
219 − Applied research and experimental development on subjects related to health.
220
221 **//02.6//** **//OTHER HEALTH SERVICES//**
222
223 **//02.6.0//** **//Other health services//**
224
225 − Health services provided by NPISHs and not classified under (02.1.1) to (02.5.0).
226
227 1. **RECREATION AND CULTURE**
228 11. **//RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING SERVICES//**
229
230 **//03.1.0//** **//Recreational and sporting services//**
231
232 This class includes the following NPISHs:
233
234 − Clubs for playing indoor or outdoor sports, including fitness clubs, sailing, rowing and canoeing clubs;
235
236 − supporters’ clubs for indoor or outdoor sports;
237
238 − clubs for games of skill or chance;
239
240 − youth clubs and organizations such as guides, scouts, young pioneers, YMCA and
241
242 YWCA;
243
244 − clubs for outdoor activities such as rambling, hiking, caving and mountain climbing, parachuting, scuba diving, hang gliding, etc.;
245
246 − social clubs such as veteran associations, Lions and Rotary Club;
247
248 − associations for birdwatchers, butterfly hunters, model builders, stamp collectors, train-spotters, vintage car enthusiasts, antique collectors, etc.;
249
250 − animal shelters, animal hospitals and veterinary services for pets;
251
252 − organizations that seek finance for, or otherwise support, participation of sportspersons and game players in international competitions.
253
254 //Excludes// : organizations whose objective is to protect wild animals (08.1.0).
255
256 **//03.2//** **//CULTURAL SERVICES//**
257
258 **//03.2.0//** **//Cultural services//**
259
260 This class includes the following NPISHs:
261
262 − Libraries, museums and art galleries;
263
264 − historical, literary, humanistic and philosophical societies;
265
266 − theatre and dance groups, orchestras, choral and musical ensembles, etc. that produce live performances of plays, operas, ballets and other spectacles;
267
268 − photography, cinema and art clubs;
269
270 − associations for the maintenance and visiting of historical monuments, war cemeteries, zoological and botanical gardens and aquaria;
271
272 − fan clubs for actors, singers, film stars and other performing artists; − television and radio broadcasting.
273
274 //Excludes// : associations that promote alternative lifestyles (07.1.0).
275
276 **04** **EDUCATION**
277
278 This division includes the following NPISHs:
279
280 − Pre-primary and primary schools;
281
282 − secondary schools providing general, vocational or technical education;
283
284 − institutions providing post-secondary non-tertiary education;
285
286 − universities, colleges and the like providing tertiary education;
287
288 − organizations providing educational programmes not definable by level;
289
290 − parent-teacher associations;
291
292 − organizations that undertake research or other scientific studies on educational matters and trust funds and charitable foundations set up to finance such activities;
293
294 − charitable foundations that provide support for schools, colleges, universities, etc. and charitable foundations that provide bursaries and financial support for students.
295
296 //Includes// : schools for disabled persons where the main aim is to provide students with a general education rather than to help them to overcome their disability; night schools and educational institutes managed by trade unions and labour federations; seminaries and colleges for training priests, clerics, rabbis and other offices of religious organizations; education by radio or television broadcasting.
297
298 //Excludes// : crèches, play schools and other child minding facilities (05.1.0); schools for disabled persons where the main aim is to help students overcome their disability rather than to provide a general education (05.1.0).
299
300 The breakdown of educational services is based upon the level categories of the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED-97) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
301
302 **//04.1//** **//PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION//**
303
304 **//04.1.0//** **//Pre-primary and primary education//**
305
306 − Levels 0 and 1 of ISCED-97: pre-primary and primary education.
307
308 //Includes// : literacy programmes for students too old for primary school.
309
310 **//04.2//** **//SECONDARY EDUCATION//**
311
312 **//04.2.0//** **//Secondary education//**
313
314 − Levels 2 and 3 of ISCED-97: lower-secondary and upper-secondary education.
315
316 //Includes// : out-of-school secondary education for adults and young people//.//
317
318 **//04.3//** **//POST-SECONDARY NON-TERTIARY EDUCATION//**
319
320 **//04.3.0//** **//Post-secondary non-tertiary education//**
321
322 − Level 4 of ISCED-97: post-secondary non-tertiary education.
323
324 //Includes// : out-of-school post-secondary non-tertiary education for adults and young people.
325
326 **//04.4//** **//TERTIARY EDUCATION//**
327
328 **//04.4.0//** **//Tertiary education//**
329
330 − Levels 5 and 6 of ISCED-97: first stage and second stage of tertiary education.
331
332 **//04.5//** **//EDUCATION NOT DEFINABLE BY LEVEL//**
333
334 **//04.5.0//** **//Education not definable by level//**
335
336 − Educational programmes, generally for adults, which do not require any special prior instruction, in particular vocational training and cultural development.
337
338 **//04.6//** **//R&D EDUCATION 04.6.0//** **//R&D Education//**
339
340 − Applied research and experimental development on subjects related to education.
341
342 **//04.7//** **//OTHER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES//**
343
344 **//04.7.0//** **//Other educational services//**
345
346 − Educational services provided by NPISHs and not classified under (04.1.1) to (04.6.0).
347
348 1. **SOCIAL PROTECTION**
349
350 Social protection as defined here covers assistance and support services provided to persons who are: elderly, disabled, having occupational injuries and diseases, survivors, unemployed, destitute, homeless, low-income earners, indigenous people, immigrants, refugees, alcohol and substance abusers, etc. It also covers assistance and support services provided to families and children.
351
352 1.
353 11. **//SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES//**
354
355 **//05.1.0//** **//Social protection services//**
356
357 This class includes the following NPISHs:
358
359 − Retirement homes for elderly persons, residences for disabled persons, rehabilitation centres providing long-term support for patients rather than health care and rehabilitative therapy, schools for disabled persons where the main aim is to help students overcome their disability;
360
361 − organizations that provide home-cleaning services, meal programmes, day-care centres, day-care services, holiday-care and transport services for elderly and disabled persons;
362
363 − orphanages, crèches, nurseries, play schools, day-care centres and other child-minding
364
365 facilities;
366
367 − organizations that provide counselling, guidance, arbitration, fostering and adoption services for families;
368
369 − single-parent agencies and services, family violence shelters;
370
371 − organizations that provide counselling to persons who are disaster victims, victims of assault and abuse and potential suicides;
372
373 − organizations that provide temporary shelters or housing for homeless persons;
374
375 − organizations that provide long-term support for persons who are gamblers, alcohol abusers and substance abusers;
376
377 − organizations that provide cash assistance, food, clothing, shelter and other services to persons who are refugees, immigrants, destitute and low-income earners;
378
379 − organizations that seek to improve conditions in prisons, including prison visitors and social rehabilitation;
380
381 − organizations that seek to provide opportunities for economic or social development for deprived groups of persons, whether in their own country or abroad.
382
383 **//05.2//** **//R&D SOCIAL PROTECTION//**
384
385 **//05.2.0//** **//R&D Social protection//**
386
387 This class includes the following NPISHs:
388
389 − Organizations that undertake applied research and experimental development on subjects related to social protection and trust funds and charitable foundations that finance such activities.
390
391 **06** **RELIGION //06.0//** **//RELIGION//**
392
393 **//06.0.0//** **//Religion//**
394
395 This class includes the following NPISHs:
396
397 − Organizations that promote religious beliefs, administer religious services and rituals, maintain places of worship, provide retreats for meditation or religious instruction;
398
399 − churches, convents, nunneries, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, temples, shrines, etc.
400
401 //Includes// : non-conventional cults and sects//.//
402
403 //Excludes// : hospitals, nursing homes, surgeries, etc. funded by religious organizations (02.2.1) to (02.4.0); maintenance of war cemeteries (03.2.0); schools, colleges, universities, etc. funded by religious organizations (04.1.0) to (04.5.0); seminaries and colleges for training priests, clerics, rabbis and other officers of religious organizations (04.1.0) to (04.5.0); orphanages and shelters for persons in distressed conditions funded by religious organizations (05.1.0).
404
405 1. **POLITICAL PARTIES, LABOUR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS**
406 11. **//SERVICES OF POLITICAL PARTIES//**
407 111. **//Services of political parties //**This class covers the following NPISHs:
408
409 − Political parties;
410
411 − political action groups and organizations that seek to enhance respect for human rights, whether in their own country or abroad;
412
413 − political action groups and groups formed to promote equal employment or political rights or to oppose discrimination on grounds of race, gender, age or sexual preference;
414
415 − political parties and political action groups mainly concerned with single issues such as the environment, the abolition of blood sports, gun control, capital punishment or right to life;
416
417 − research bodies directly linked to political parties and political action groups.
418
419 1.
420 11. **//SERVICES OF LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS//**
421 111. **//Services of labour organizations//**
422
423 This class covers the following NPISHs:
424
425 − Trade unions, labour federations and similar groups whose purpose is to improve or maintain the living conditions of members.
426
427 //Excludes// : night schools and educational institutes managed by trade unions and labour federations (04.1.0) to (04.5.0).
428
429 1.
430 11. **//SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS//**
431 111. **//Services of professional organizations//**
432
433 This class covers the following NPISHs:
434
435 − Associations of members of particular professions which promote the interests of members, exchange information among members or issue regular publications on topics relevant to the professions.
436
437 1. **ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION**
438 11. **//ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICES//**
439 111. **//Environmental protection services//**
440
441 This class covers the following NPISHs:
442
443 − Organizations set up to prevent or remedy damage to the environment;
444
445 − associations that seek to protect wild animals or preserve particular species of animals, birds, fish, insects etc.;
446
447 − organizations that seek to preserve forests, wet-lands and areas of natural beauty. //Excludes// : political parties mainly concerned with environment issues (07.1.0); associations that seek to prevent cruelty to domesticated animals (09.1.0).
448
449 1.
450 11. **//R&D ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION//**
451 111. **//R&D Environmental protection//**
452
453 This class covers the following NPISHs:
454
455 − Organizations that undertake applied research and experimental development on subjects related to environmental protection and trust funds and charitable organizations set up to finance such activities.
456
457 1. **SERVICES N.E.C.**
458 11. **//SERVICES N.E.C.//**
459 111. **//Services n.e.c.//**
460
461 This class covers the following NPISHs:
462
463 − Community and neighbourhood organizations;
464
465 − organizations that seek to prevent cruel treatment of domesticated animals;
466
467 − organizations providing legal-aid services and related assistance;
468
469 − organizations carrying out economic forecasting and analysis;
470
471 − organizations providing services that cannot be assigned to Divisions 01 to 08.
472
473 1.
474 11. **//R&D SERVICES N.E.C.//**
475 111. **//R&D Services n.e.c.//**
476
477 This class covers the following NPISHs:
478
479 - Organizations that undertake basic research and applied research and experimental development on subjects not classified to Divisions 02, 04, 05 or 08 and trust funds and charitable organizations set up to finance such activities.
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