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2012 Edition

international industry 56142

Telephone Call Centers

Overview

This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in answering telephone calls and relaying messages to clients and (2) establishments primarily engaged in providing telemarketing services on a contract or fee basis for others, such as promoting clients' products or services by telephone; taking orders for clients by telephone; and soliciting contributions or providing information for clients by telephone. Telemarketing establishments never own the product or provide the service that they are representing and generally can originate and/or receive calls for others.

The immediate parent of international industry 56142 is industry group 5614: Business Support Services

2012 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Establishments primarily engaged in:
  • Providing paging and beeper transmission services:are classified in Industry 51721, Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite);
  • Organizing and conducting fundraising campaigns on a contract or fee basis, that may include telephone solicitation services:are classified in Industry 56149, Other Business Support Services; and
  • Gathering, recording, tabulating, and presenting marketing and public opinion data, that may include telephone canvassing services:are classified in Industry 54191, Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling.

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 56142
2007 56142
2012 56142
2017 56142
2022 56142

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