Child Day-Care Services Sector

This sector comprises businesses primarily engaged in providing day-care services for infants or children, or both. Businesses in this sector may care for older children when they are not in school and may also offer pre-kindergarten educational programs. Activities in this sector include:

• baby-sitting in own home (that is, private day-care)
• child day-care services
• head start centres (not formal schooling)
• nursery or playschool
• pre-kindergarten or pre-school (not as part of an elementary school)

Date modified:

2016-02-05