1. Economic Sectors
Ms. Patten 2014

2. Primary Economic Activities
 extracts or harvests products from the earth
 includes the production of raw material and
basic foods
 Hunting and gathering
 Farming, livestock herding, fishing
 Forestry, lumbering, mining
 Extractive sector

3. Secondary Economic Activities
 manufactures finished goods
 manufacturing, processing, and construction
lies within the secondary sector
 converting raw materials (primary products)
into intermediate or finished products
 metal working and smelting, automobile production, textile
production, chemical and engineering industries, aerospace
manufacturing, energy utilities, engineering, breweries and
bottlers, construction, and shipbuilding
 Manufacturing and production

4. Tertiary Economic Activities
 service industry
 provides services to the general
population and to businesses
 retail and wholesale sales, transportation
and distribution, entertainment (movies,
television, radio, music, theater, etc.),
restaurants, clerical services, media,
tourism, insurance, banking, healthcare,
and law
 Offices, banks, hospitals, shops
 Facilitate commerce and trade

5. Quaternary Economic Activities
 intellectual activities
 government, culture, libraries, scientific research,
education, and information technology
 Collection and processing and manipulation of
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information and capital
Finance, administration, insurance, legal services,
computer services
Requires high levels of specialized knowledge or
technical skills
White collar professionals
Knowledge sector

6. Quinary Economic Activities
 the highest levels of decision making in a
society or economy
 top executives or officials in such fields as
government, science, universities,
nonprofit, healthcare, culture, and the
media.
 Activities involving complex decision making
and advancement of human capacities
 Scientific research, high level management,
government officials
 Gold collar

7.  Luxembourg: $84,700
 primary .4%, secondary 13.6%, tertiary 86%
 United States: $48,100
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primary .7, secondary 20.3, tertiary 79%
 Switzerland: $43,400
 primary 1.2%, secondary 27.5%, tertiary 71.3%
 Brazil: $11,600
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primary 5.8%, secondary 26.9%, tertiary 67.3%,
 China: $8,400
 primary 9.6%, secondary 47.1%, tertiary 43.3%
 Liberia: $400
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primary 76.9%, secondary 5.4%, tertiary 17.7%

8. New Brunswick, Canada

9. The UK

10. Brazil

11. Ghana