JSIC Q—Compound services

Where Q sits

1. Q Compound services

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 86 Postal services
• 87 Cooperative associations, n.e.c. Overview of the major group

What Q includes

• This Division comprises establishments engaged in providing various services that are related to plural Divisions in combination of credit business, insurance business or mutual aid operations. Post offices and agriculture cooperative associations, etc. which are legally defined in type and scope of their operations are classified inThis Division.
• Post offices
• Post offices refer to establishments engaged in providing various services that are related to plural Divisions by operating postal services and counter services for banking and insurance altogether, and taking trust from city, ward, town and village, or by other reasons.
• Cooperative associations
• "Cooperative associations" refer to establishments of agriculture, forestry and fisheries cooperative associations and business cooperative associations, both of which are engaged in operations such as management guidance, purchases, welfare work, etc in combination of credit business or mutual aid organizations.
• Establishments of cooperative associations which are engaged in a single business operation are classified under a relevant industry according to the type of operation they conduct. Establishments of cooperative association engaged in the operations that are related to plural Divisions but not engaged in credit business or mutual aid organizations are classified under the relevant industries according to their main economic activities which theEstablishments conduct.

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