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Health Care and Social Assistance
Inputs: Sector Description
Table 1. Employed Persons by Detailed Industry, Healthcare and Social Assistance, 2007
Ambutlatory healthcare services
| Healthcare and Social Assistance subsectors |
NAICS code |
Number of workers
(thousands) |
| Subtotal: Ambulatory healthcare services |
621 |
6,295 |
| Physician offices |
6211 |
1,720 |
| Dental offices |
6212 |
843 |
| Offices of other health practitioners |
6213 |
557 |
| Outpatient care centers |
6214 |
881 |
| Home healthcare services |
6216 |
959 |
| Other ambulatory healthcare services |
6219 |
1,334 |
Hospitals
| Healthcare and Social Assistance subsectors |
NAICS code |
Number of workers
(thousands) |
| Subtotal: Hospitals* |
622 |
5,955 |
Nursing and residential care facilities
| Healthcare and Social Assistance subsectors |
NAICS code |
Number of workers
(thousands) |
| Subtotal: Nursing and residential care facilities |
623 |
2,438 |
| Nursing Care facilities |
6231 |
1,689 |
| Residential care facilities, without nursing |
6232, 6233, 6239 |
749 |
Social assistance
| Healthcare and Social Assistance subsectors |
NAICS code |
Number of workers
(thousands) |
| Subtotal: Social assistance |
624 |
3,147 |
| Individual and Family Services |
6241 |
1,282 |
| Community food and housing, and emergency services |
6242 |
123 |
| Vocational rehabilitation services |
6243 |
181 |
| Child day care services |
6244 |
1,561** |
Totals
| Healthcare and Social Assistance subsectors |
NAICS code |
Number of workers
(thousands) |
| Total for healthcare and social assistance sector |
62 |
17,834 |
| Total, Private sector (16 years and older) |
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146,047 |
Numbers were obtained from BLS Current Population Survey, Table 18: Employed persons by detailed industry, sex, race and Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity, 2007, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat18.txt . Generally, data for industries with fewer than 50,000 employed as well as for certain other industries are not published separately but are included in the totals for the appropriate categories shown.
*4-digit level data unavailable; **Not provided; calculated by subtracting totals for other three industries (6241, 6242, 6243) from total for subsector. (External link)
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