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5 == COPNI: DIVISIONS ==
6
7 **//01 Housing
8 02 Health
9 03 Recreation and culture
10 04 Education
11 05 Social protection
12 06 Religion
13 07 Political parties, labour and professional organizations
14 08 Environmental protection
15 09 Services n.e.c.//**
16
17 == COPNI: BREAKDOWN BY DIVISION AND GROUP ==
18
19 **01 HOUSING**
20 HOUSING
21
22 **02 HEALTH**
23 MEDICAL PRODUCTS, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT
24 OUTPATIENT SERVICES
25 HOSPITAL SERVICES
26 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
27 R&D HEALTH
28 OTHER HEALTH SERVICES
29
30 **03** **RECREATION AND CULTURE**
31 RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING SERVICES
32 CULTURAL SERVICES
33
34 **EDUCATION**
35 PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
36 SECONDARY EDUCATION
37 POST-SECONDARY NON-TERTIARY EDUCATION
38 TERTIARY EDUCATION
39 EDUCATION NOT DEFINABLE BY LEVEL
40 R&D EDUCATION
41 OTHER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
42
43 **SOCIAL PROTECTION**
44 SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES
45 R&D SOCIAL PROTECTION
46
47 **RELIGION**
48 06.0 RELIGION
49
50 **POLITICAL PARTIES, LABOUR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS**
51 SERVICES OF POLITICAL PARTIES
52 SERVICES OF LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS
53 SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
54
55 **ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION**
56 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICES
57 R&D ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
58
59 **SERVICES N.E.C.**
60 SERVICES N.E.C.
61 R&D SERVICES N.E.C.
62
63 == COPNI: DEFINITION BY CLASS ==
64
65 **HOUSING
66 //01.0//** **//HOUSING//**
67 **//01.0.0//** **//Housing//**
68
69 This class covers the following NPISHs:
70
71 * − Associations that undertake the development, construction, management, leasing, financing, renovation and rehabilitation of housing.
72
73 **HEALTH**
74
75 This division includes the following NPISHs:
76
77 * − General and specialized hospitals, nursing and convalescent homes, medical and maternity centres, hospices for terminally ill persons;
78 * − surgeries, clinics, vaccination centres and dispensaries;
79 * − rehabilitation centres where the objective is to treat patients rather than to provide long-term support;
80 * − volunteer organizations for ambulance crews and paramedical personnel that provide emergency medical services;
81 * − organizations that promote public health and health education;
82 * − organizations that provide medical services to persons who are victims of wars, famines and natural catastrophes whether in their own country or abroad;
83 * − organizations that undertake research and scientific studies on medical and health matters and trust funds or charitable organizations that finance such activities;
84 * − 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.
85
86 //Excludes// : residential homes for elderly or disabled persons (05.1.0); shelters for homeless persons (05.1.0).
87
88 **//02.1//** **//MEDICAL PRODUCTS, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT//**
89
90 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).
91
92 **//02.1.1//** **//Pharmaceutical products//**
93
94 * − Provision of pharmaceutical products such as medicinal preparations, medicinal drugs,
95
96 patent medicines, serums and vaccines, vitamins and minerals, cod liver oil and halibut liver oil, oral contraceptives.
97
98 **//02.1.2//** **//Other medical products//**
99
100 * − 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.
101
102 **//02.1.3//** **//Therapeutic appliances and equipment//**
103
104 * − 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.
105
106 //Includes// : dentures but not fitting costs; repair of therapeutic appliances and equipment.
107
108 //Excludes// : hire of therapeutic equipment (02.2.3).
109
110 **//02.2//** **//OUTPATIENT SERVICES//**
111
112 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.
113
114 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.
115
116 Medical, dental and paramedical services provided to in-patients by hospitals and the like are included in hospital services (02.3).
117
118 **//02.2.1//** **//Medical services//**
119
120 * − Provision of medical services by general medical practitioners and specialist medical practitioners.
121
122 //Includes// : services of orthodontic specialists.
123
124 //Excludes// : services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres (02.2.3); services of practitioners of traditional medicine (02.2.3).
125
126 **//02.2.2//** **//Dental services//**
127
128 − Provision of dental services by dentists, oral hygienists and other dental auxiliaries. //Includes// : fitting costs of dentures//.//
129
130 //Excludes// : dentures (02.1.3); services of orthodontic specialists (02.2.1); services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres (02.2.3).
131
132 **//02.2.3//** **//Paramedical services//**
133
134 * − Provision of paramedical services such as:
135 ** services of medical analysis laboratories and x-ray centres;
136 ** services of nurses and midwives;
137 ** services of acupuncturists, chiropractors, optometrists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, etc.;
138 ** medically prescribed corrective-gymnastic therapy;
139 ** outpatient thermal bath or sea-water treatments;
140 ** ambulance services other than hospital ambulance services; - hire of therapeutic equipment.
141
142 //Includes//: services of practitioners of traditional medicine.
143
144 //Excludes//: public health service laboratories (02.4.0); laboratories engaged in determining the causes of disease (02.5.0).
145
146 **//02.3 HOSPITAL SERVICES//**
147
148 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.
149
150 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.
151
152 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.
153
154 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).
155
156 **//02.3.0 Hospital services//**
157
158 * − Provision of the following services to hospital patients:
159 ** 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;
160 ** 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.
161
162 **//02.4//** **//PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES//**
163
164 **//02.4.0//** **//Public health services//**
165
166 * − 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.
167
168 //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.
169
170 //Excludes// : medical analysis laboratories (02.2.3); laboratories engaged in determining the causes of disease (02.5.0).
171
172 **//02.5//** **//R&D HEALTH//**
173 **//02.5.0//** **//R&D Health//**
174
175 * − Applied research and experimental development on subjects related to health.
176
177 **//02.6//** **//OTHER HEALTH SERVICES//**
178 **//02.6.0//** **//Other health services//**
179
180 * − Health services provided by NPISHs and not classified under (02.1.1) to (02.5.0).
181
182 **RECREATION AND CULTURE
183 //RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING SERVICES//**
184 **//03.1.0//** **//Recreational and sporting services//**
185
186 This class includes the following NPISHs:
187
188 * − Clubs for playing indoor or outdoor sports, including fitness clubs, sailing, rowing and canoeing clubs;
189 * − supporters’ clubs for indoor or outdoor sports;
190 * − clubs for games of skill or chance;
191 * − youth clubs and organizations such as guides, scouts, young pioneers, YMCA and YWCA;
192 * − clubs for outdoor activities such as rambling, hiking, caving and mountain climbing, parachuting, scuba diving, hang gliding, etc.;
193 * − social clubs such as veteran associations, Lions and Rotary Club;
194 * − associations for birdwatchers, butterfly hunters, model builders, stamp collectors, train-spotters, vintage car enthusiasts, antique collectors, etc.;
195 * − animal shelters, animal hospitals and veterinary services for pets;
196 * − organizations that seek finance for, or otherwise support, participation of sportspersons and game players in international competitions.
197
198 //Excludes// : organizations whose objective is to protect wild animals (08.1.0).
199
200 **//03.2//** **//CULTURAL SERVICES//**
201 **//03.2.0//** **//Cultural services//**
202
203 This class includes the following NPISHs:
204
205 * − Libraries, museums and art galleries;
206 * − historical, literary, humanistic and philosophical societies;
207 * − theatre and dance groups, orchestras, choral and musical ensembles, etc. that produce live performances of plays, operas, ballets and other spectacles;
208 * − photography, cinema and art clubs;
209 * − associations for the maintenance and visiting of historical monuments, war cemeteries, zoological and botanical gardens and aquaria;
210 * − fan clubs for actors, singers, film stars and other performing artists; − television and radio broadcasting.
211
212 //Excludes// : associations that promote alternative lifestyles (07.1.0).
213
214 **04** **EDUCATION**
215
216 This division includes the following NPISHs:
217
218 * − Pre-primary and primary schools;
219 * − secondary schools providing general, vocational or technical education;
220 * − institutions providing post-secondary non-tertiary education;
221 * − universities, colleges and the like providing tertiary education;
222 * − organizations providing educational programmes not definable by level;
223 * − parent-teacher associations;
224 * − organizations that undertake research or other scientific studies on educational matters and trust funds and charitable foundations set up to finance such activities;
225 * − charitable foundations that provide support for schools, colleges, universities, etc. and charitable foundations that provide bursaries and financial support for students.
226
227 //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.
228
229 //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).
230
231 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).
232
233 **//04.1//** **//PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION//**
234 **//04.1.0//** **//Pre-primary and primary education//**
235
236 * − Levels 0 and 1 of ISCED-97: pre-primary and primary education.
237
238 //Includes// : literacy programmes for students too old for primary school.
239
240 **//04.2//** **//SECONDARY EDUCATION//**
241 **//04.2.0//** **//Secondary education//**
242
243 * − Levels 2 and 3 of ISCED-97: lower-secondary and upper-secondary education.
244
245 //Includes// : out-of-school secondary education for adults and young people//.//
246
247 **//04.3//** **//POST-SECONDARY NON-TERTIARY EDUCATION//**
248 **//04.3.0//** **//Post-secondary non-tertiary education//**
249
250 * − Level 4 of ISCED-97: post-secondary non-tertiary education.
251
252 //Includes// : out-of-school post-secondary non-tertiary education for adults and young people.
253
254 **//04.4//** **//TERTIARY EDUCATION//**
255 **//04.4.0//** **//Tertiary education//**
256
257 * − Levels 5 and 6 of ISCED-97: first stage and second stage of tertiary education.
258
259 **//04.5//** **//EDUCATION NOT DEFINABLE BY LEVEL//**
260 **//04.5.0//** **//Education not definable by level//**
261
262 * − Educational programmes, generally for adults, which do not require any special prior instruction, in particular vocational training and cultural development.
263
264 **//04.6//** **//R&D EDUCATION 04.6.0//** **//R&D Education//**
265
266 * − Applied research and experimental development on subjects related to education.
267
268 **//04.7//** **//OTHER EDUCATIONAL SERVICES//**
269 **//04.7.0//** **//Other educational services//**
270
271 * − Educational services provided by NPISHs and not classified under (04.1.1) to (04.6.0).
272
273 **SOCIAL PROTECTION**
274
275 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.
276
277 **//SOCIAL PROTECTION SERVICES//**
278 **//05.1.0//** **//Social protection services//**
279
280 This class includes the following NPISHs:
281
282 * − 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;
283 * − organizations that provide home-cleaning services, meal programmes, day-care centres, day-care services, holiday-care and transport services for elderly and disabled persons;
284 * − orphanages, crèches, nurseries, play schools, day-care centres and other child-minding facilities;
285 * − organizations that provide counselling, guidance, arbitration, fostering and adoption services for families;
286 * − single-parent agencies and services, family violence shelters;
287 * − organizations that provide counselling to persons who are disaster victims, victims of assault and abuse and potential suicides;
288 * − organizations that provide temporary shelters or housing for homeless persons;
289 * − organizations that provide long-term support for persons who are gamblers, alcohol abusers and substance abusers;
290 * − organizations that provide cash assistance, food, clothing, shelter and other services to persons who are refugees, immigrants, destitute and low-income earners;
291 * − organizations that seek to improve conditions in prisons, including prison visitors and social rehabilitation;
292 * − organizations that seek to provide opportunities for economic or social development for deprived groups of persons, whether in their own country or abroad.
293
294 **//05.2//** **//R&D SOCIAL PROTECTION//**
295 **//05.2.0//** **//R&D Social protection//**
296
297 This class includes the following NPISHs:
298
299 * − Organizations that undertake applied research and experimental development on subjects related to social protection and trust funds and charitable foundations that finance such activities.
300
301 **06** **RELIGION //06.0//** **//RELIGION//**
302 **//06.0.0//** **//Religion//**
303
304 This class includes the following NPISHs:
305
306 * − Organizations that promote religious beliefs, administer religious services and rituals, maintain places of worship, provide retreats for meditation or religious instruction;
307 * − churches, convents, nunneries, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, temples, shrines, etc.
308
309 //Includes// : non-conventional cults and sects//.//
310
311 //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).
312
313 **POLITICAL PARTIES, LABOUR AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
314 //SERVICES OF POLITICAL PARTIES//**
315 **//Services of political parties//**
316
317 This class covers the following NPISHs:
318
319 * − Political parties;
320 * − political action groups and organizations that seek to enhance respect for human rights, whether in their own country or abroad;
321 * − 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;
322 * − 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;
323 * − research bodies directly linked to political parties and political action groups.
324
325 **//SERVICES OF LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS//**
326 **//Services of labour organizations//**
327
328 This class covers the following NPISHs:
329
330 * − Trade unions, labour federations and similar groups whose purpose is to improve or maintain the living conditions of members.
331
332 //Excludes// : night schools and educational institutes managed by trade unions and labour federations (04.1.0) to (04.5.0).
333
334 **//SERVICES OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS//**
335 **//Services of professional organizations//**
336
337 This class covers the following NPISHs:
338
339 * − 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.
340
341 **ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
342 //ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SERVICES//**
343
344 **//Environmental protection services//**
345
346 This class covers the following NPISHs:
347
348 * − Organizations set up to prevent or remedy damage to the environment;
349 * − associations that seek to protect wild animals or preserve particular species of animals, birds, fish, insects etc.;
350 * − 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).
351
352 **//R&D ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION//**
353 **//R&D Environmental protection//**
354
355 This class covers the following NPISHs:
356
357 * − 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.
358
359 **SERVICES N.E.C.
360 //SERVICES N.E.C.//**
361 **//Services n.e.c.//**
362
363 This class covers the following NPISHs:
364
365 * − Community and neighbourhood organizations;
366 * − organizations that seek to prevent cruel treatment of domesticated animals;
367 * − organizations providing legal-aid services and related assistance;
368 * − organizations carrying out economic forecasting and analysis;
369 * − organizations providing services that cannot be assigned to Divisions 01 to 08.
370
371 **//R&D SERVICES N.E.C.//**
372 **//R&D Services n.e.c.//**
373
374 This class covers the following NPISHs:
375
376 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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