941200 Activities of professional membership organisations

This type includes:

• activities of organisations whose members’ interests centre chiefly on a particular scholarly discipline or professional practice or technical field (e.g. medical associations, legal associations, accounting associations, engineering associations, architects’ associations)
• activities of associations of specialists engaged in scientific, academic or cultural activities (e.g. associations of writers, painters, performers of various kinds, journalists)
• dissemination of information, the establishment and supervision of standards of practice, representation before government agencies, public relations of professional organisations

This type also includes:

• activities of learned societies

This type excludes:

• education provided by professional membership organisations, see division 85
• activities of business and employers’ membership organisations, see 941100
• activities of trade unions, see 942000
• activities of other membership organisations n.e.c., see 9499