Service Sphere, industries of the economy and other activities combined, which provide the people with material and nonmaterial services. Unlike material production (see Production Sphere), labour expended in providing services does not create new use values. Two types of services can be distinguished: material and non-material. Material services are concerned with transfer, maintenance or restoration of use values created in the sphere of material production. Thus, they preserve or augment the amount of social labour contained in the material wealth. This labour belongs to the production sphere of the economy, and is directly involved in the creation of the national income. Material services include freight transport, production communications, material and technical supplies, trade (that part of it which continues the production cycle), public catering; services for the manufacture and repair of footwear, clothing, and items of cultural and everyday consumption. In the non-material category are services such as education, health care, passenger transport, cultural and educational institutions, sports and physical culture facilities, government offices, Certain consumer service utilities (public saunas and baths, laundries, barber’s shops, etc.). They all belong to the non-production sphere of the economy.