Social Services Industry Overview

The social assistance industry includes establishments that provide a wide range of social assistance services to their clients. It includes child day care services, community food housing and relief services, and individual and family services. These services do not include residential or accommodation services, except on a short-day basis. This social assistance market in this report is segmented into community and individual services and child day care services.

The educational services market includes establishments providing training and instructions in a wide variety of subjects. The instruction and training is typically provided in schools, colleges, universities, and training centers. Educational services market in this report is segmented into elementary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, and professional schools, and other educational services segments.

The child day care services market includes establishments offering day care for infants or children. These establishments provide care services for preschool children, and for older children when they are not in school. Some of these establishments also offer pre-kindergarten education. This market includes both government and private child care services. Child day care services market in this report is segmented into In-Home Care services, Family Child Care, and Center-Based Care segments.

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools include establishments providing academic courses and granting degrees at baccalaureate or graduate levels. It includes colleges, theological seminaries offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees, military academies at college level, universities and professional schools (e.g., business administration, dental, law, medical).

Elementary And Secondary Schools includes establishments providing academic courses and associated course work to basic preparatory education i.e. kindergarten through 12th grade. It includes school boards and school districts. This was due to presence of a large number of elementary and secondary schools in both developed and developing countries. In most countries all children are educated to this stage and they are aged between 4 to 18 years.

Community And Individual Services industry includes establishments involved in collecting, preparing, and delivering food for the needy, providing short-term emergency shelter, temporary residential shelters, transitional housing, and providing food, shelter, clothing, medical relief, resettlement, and counselling to victims of domestic or international disasters. For example, community meals, food banks, soup kitchens, runaway youth shelters, emergency shelters, and refugee settlement services.

Social services are voluntary benefits and facilities relating to education, food supplies, health care, disaster relief activities and housing services and are offered by private or government establishments to improve living conditions and social well-being of under privileged children, disabled, elderly and the poor in a community.

Other educational services include establishments providing academic or domain specific training. This industry includes junior colleges, business and secretarial schools, computer training, professional and management development training, cosmetology and barber schools, flight training, apprenticeship training, other technical and trade schools, fine arts schools, sports and recreation instruction, language schools, exam preparation and tutoring, automobile driving schools, all other miscellaneous schools and instruction, educational support services.