Question

Briefly present employment structure/scenario in the 3 sectors of economy.

Answer 1

EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURES2. 1. ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES • People need food, clothes, a place to live, medical attention and so on. Economic activities are all the processes used to obtain the goods and services that people need. • Besides, economic activities provide jobs to the society. Thus, people have a salary to satisfy their needs3. 2. ECONOMIC SECTORS Economic activities can be divided into three large sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary. Sometimes, we also can add a fourth sector which is called the quaternary sector.4. PRIMARY SECTOR OR PRIMARY ACTIVITIES The primary sector consists of activities which obtain food and raw material from the land or the sea Examples: Farmers, miners, quarrymen, oil rig workers, fishermen...5. SECONDARY SECTOR OR SECONDARY ACTIVITIES The secondary sector consists of economic activities which transform raw materials into finished products. That means that secondary activities make or manufacture things Examples of secondary activities: Steelmaking, car assembly, construction of buildings and roads, factories, food industry...6. TERTIARY SECTOR OR TERTIARY ACTIVITIES It is also called the service sector. It consists of economic activities which provide a service to the society, but do not produce manufactured goods Examples of tertiary activities: Teachers, politicians, football players, doctors, police officers, shop assistants, businessmen...7. QUATERNARY SECTOR OR QUATERNARY ACTIVITIES These activities are a type of high-tech service industry that carries out research and provides information and advice Examples of quaternary activities: Scientists, engineers, and researchers8. 3. EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURES • They are diagrams that show us the percentage of each sector in a society. We usually only show the primary, the secondary and the tertiary sector • The percentage of each sector changes from one country to another country depending on its level of development9. • Developed countries have more people who work in the tertiary sector • Developing countries have more people who work in the primary sector10. In order to know the proportion of people working in each sector, we use employment structures. They are circular diagrams that show the percentage of each economic sector These diagrams usually show the three first sectors Even though, the employment structure of a country can change through the years depending on its level of development