The North American Industry Classification System or NAICS ( pronounced " nakes ") is used by business and government to classify business establishments according to type of economic activity ( process of production ) in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Established in 1937, it is being supplanted by the six-digit North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS code ), which was released in 1997 ; however certain government departments and agencies, such as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), still use the SIC codes.

The North American Industry Classification System definition of the Public Administration ( NAICS 91 ) sector states that public administration "... comprises establishments primarily engaged in activities of a governmental nature, that is, the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant regulations, and the administration of programs based on them ".

NAICS sector 11 ( abbreviated to NAICS 11 ) is a sub-classification of economic activity that covers agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting in the NAICS system in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

NAICS 21 is the category within the North American Industry Classification System which is composed of establishments that extract naturally occurring mineral solids ( i. e. as metals, coal and other industrial minerals ), liquid minerals ( i. e. crude petroleum ) and gases ( i. e. natural gas ).

Emerson Radio Corp. was incorporated in 1915 as Emerson Phonograph Co. ( NAICS: 421620 Consumer Electronics Wholesaling ), based in New York City, by an early recording engineer and executive, Victor Hugo Emerson, who was at one time employed by Columbia Records.

According to the North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS ), the health care industry consists of three main sub-sectors, divided by the types of services provided at each facility:

In order to classify a business as a service, one can use classification systems such as the United Nations's International Standard Industrial Classification standard, the United States ' Standard Industrial Classification ( SIC ) code system and its new replacement, the North American Industrial Classification System ( NAICS ), the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community ( NACE ) in the EU and similar systems elsewhere.

These include the Standard Industrial Classification ( SIC ), the North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS ), or the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code ( UNSPSC ).

The NAFTA signatories are working on a system that classifies products called NAPCS as a companion to North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS ).

* North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS )

Consequently, the BLS began in January 2004 to publish the PPI data in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System ( NAICS ).

NAICS does not offer guidance on the classification of enterprises ( companies ) which are composed of multiple establishments.

The NAICS numbering system employs six-digit code at the most detailed industry level.

With the first version, released in 1997, NAICS offered enhanced coverage of the service sector, relative to SIC.

In many jurisdictions oil and gas royalty interests are considered real property under the NAICS classification code and qualify for a 1031 like-kind exchange.

The values for NAICS codes beginning with 11 are summarized below.

Deeper data sets can determine other parameters such as domain name, connection speed, ISP, language, proxies, company name, US DMA / MSA, NAICS codes, and home / business.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's role is strictly symbolic and unifying and the Communion's three international bodies are consultative and collaborative, their resolutions having no legal effect on the autonomous provinces of the Communion.

In jazz an unscored collaborative arrangement is called a " head arrangement " ( Randel 2002, p. 294 ; it is in the head of the musician ( s )).

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

This is a parallel and collaborative effort e. g. with research at the Princeton Sound Lab, the University of Cologne, and the Computational Arts Research Group at Queensland University of Technology.

HyperScope is perceived as the first step of a process designed to engage a wider community in a dialogue, on development of collaborative software and services, based on Engelbart's goals and research.

" As recent scholarship documents, the work is likely more collaborative than it has been given credit for in twentieth-century art history.

Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the philosophies of Unix and free software as well as using collaborative software development and testing processes.

Some use the term dispute resolution to refer only to alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ), that is, extrajudicial processes such as arbitration, collaborative law, and mediation used to resolve conflict and potential conflict between and among individuals, business entities, governmental agencies, and ( in the public international law context ) states.

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search ( GIMPS ) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

A collaborative project between the World Land Trust ( a UK based nonprofit environmental organisation ) and the Wildlife Trust of India that is creating protected wildlife corridors connecting National Parks and protected areas to others.

A responsive mediation process also is informal, flexible and collaborative.

His enthusiasm for world music traditions and preservation and collaborative efforts is comparable to that of guitarist Ry Cooder.

Oxfordians also claim that the fact that a number of the later plays ( such as Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Pericles ) have been described as incomplete or collaborative is explained by these plays being either drafted earlier than conventionally believed, or simply revised / completed by others after Oxford's death.

The European Cultivated Potato Database ( ECPD ) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions, updated and maintained by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks ( ECP / GR )— which is organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ).

Remote pair programming, also known as virtual pair programming or distributed pair programming, is pair programming where the two programmers are in different locations, working via a collaborative real-time editor, shared desktop, or a remote pair programming IDE plugin.

Although each particular level is credited to one runner, the ideas and techniques used are iterative and collaborative in nature, with each runner picking up tips and ideas from the others, so that speeds keep improving beyond what was thought possible as the runs are further optimized and new tricks or routes are discovered.

Michel Bauwens identifies the emergence of the open software movement and peer-to-peer production as a new, alternative mode of production to the capitalist economy and centrally planned economy that is based on collaborative self-management, common ownership of resources, and the production of use-values through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital.

As of 2010, Gabay is recording and touring with Asian Dub Foundation, The RULES ( a collaborative band with DJ Krust ), and ongoing collaborations with Roni Size and Reprazent.

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the international standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

Theatre ( or theater ) is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.

The mission of the University is to contribute, through collaborative research, capacity development, education and advisory services to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare that are the concern of the United Nations.