HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
Inputs: Sector Description
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
Table 1. Employed Persons by Detailed Industry, Healthcare and Social Assistance, 2009
Healthcare and Social Assistance Subsectors | NAICS code | Number of workers (thousands) |
---|---|---|
Subtotal: Ambulatory healthcare services | 621 | 6,392 |
Physician offices | 6211 | 1,555 |
Dental offices | 6212 | 801 |
Offices of other health practitioners | 6213 | 220 |
Outpatient care centers | 6214 | 1,102 |
Home healthcare services | 6216 | 967 |
Other ambulatory healthcare services | 6219 | 1,747 |
Hospitals | ||
Subtotal: Hospitals* | 622 | 6,265 |
Nursing and residential care facilities | ||
Subtotal: Nursing and residential care facilities | 623 | 2,568* |
Nursing Care facilities | 6231 | 1,869 |
Residential care facilities, without nursing | 6232, 6233, 6239 |
699 |
Social assistance | ||
Subtotal: Social assistance | 624 | 3,154 |
Individual and Family Services | 6241 | 1,358 |
Community food and housing, and emergency services | 6242 | 118 |
Vocational rehabilitation services | 6243 | 153 |
Child day care services | 6244 | 1,525* |
Totals | ||
Total for healthcare and social assistance sector | 62 | 18,362 |
Total, Private sector (16 years and older) | 139,877 |
Numbers were obtained from BLS Current Population Survey, Table 18: Employed persons by detailed industry, sex, race and Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity, 2009. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.pdf 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.
Asterisk (*) indicates that 4-digit level data was not provided; calculated by adding totals for 6231, 6232, 6233 and 6219.
Asterisks (**) indicate that data was not provided; calculated by subtracting totals for 6241, 6242 and 6243 from total for 624.
- Page last reviewed: October 31, 2012
- Page last updated: October 31, 2012
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Respiratory Health Division