What Is a Sector?
Group to understand.
We group economic activities using a criterion; the groups are sectors. For primary, secondary and tertiary, the criterion is the nature of the activity.
↳ Classification needs a criterion.
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Sectors of the Indian Economy · Class 10 Economics
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Primary Sector
Straight from nature.
↳ Natural goods.
Secondary Sector
Changing nature's products.
↳ Manufactured goods.
Add Values, Not Quantities
You can't add cars to nails.
Different goods cannot be added up, so economists add their values.
↳ Value is the common unit.
Final and Intermediate Goods
Wheat, flour, biscuits.
↳ Count only the Rs 80.
Why Only Final Goods
Don't count it three times.
The value of the final good already includes all the intermediate goods used to make it.
↳ Avoid double counting.
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1
Sectors of Economic Activities — Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
How economic activities are grouped into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors by the nature of the activity, what each sector produces, how the tertiary sector differs from the others, and why the three sectors are hi…
- Economic activities are grouped into sectors using some important criterion; for primary, secondary and tertiary sectors the criterion is th…
- When we produce a good by exploiting natural resources, it is a primary sector activity — cotton cultivation, dairy, fishing, forestry, mine…
- The primary sector forms the base for all other products and is also called the agriculture and related sector
~18 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Comparing the Three Sectors — GDP and Historical Change
How the production of the three sectors is measured by adding the values of final goods and services, why intermediate goods are not counted separately, what GDP and GVA are, and how the importance of the sectors shifted…
- An economy may have one or more dominant sectors in total production and employment
- Goods like cars, computers and nails cannot be added up, so the values of goods and services are added instead — 10,000 kg of wheat at Rs 20…
- Only final goods and services are counted; intermediate goods such as wheat and flour are used up in making final goods, and their value is…
~20 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Sectors in India — The Rising Tertiary Sector and Disguised Unemployment
How production shifted towards the tertiary sector in India between 1977-78 and 2017-18, the four reasons for the rise of services, why employment did not shift in the same way, and what underemployment or disguised unem…
- Between 1977-78 and 2017-18, production grew in all three sectors but most in the tertiary sector, which replaced the primary sector as the…
- Graph 2 shows the tertiary share of GVA rising from about 30% to about 54%, and the primary share falling from about 47% to about 19%
- Four reasons for the rise of services: basic services the government must provide; demand for transport, trade and storage from growing agri…
~25 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
How to Create More Employment — From Irrigation to the Right to Work
Ways of creating more employment suggested in the chapter: irrigation, rural roads, transport and storage, cheap credit, industries in semi-rural areas, education, health, tourism and regional industries, and the short-t…
- There is considerable underemployment in agriculture, and some people are not employed at all
- A well built with government money or a bank loan lets Laxmi grow a second crop, wheat, in the rabi season; one hectare of wheat employs two…
- A new dam and canals can irrigate many farms and generate employment within agriculture itself
~20 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
5
Organised and Unorganised Sectors, and Public and Private Sectors
Classifying economic activities by conditions of employment into organised and unorganised sectors, with Kanta and Kamal, Table 2.3, and the need to protect unorganised workers; and by ownership into public and private s…
- The organised sector covers enterprises or places of work with regular terms of employment and assured work; they are registered with the go…
- Organised workers get job security, fixed hours, overtime pay, paid leave and holidays, provident fund, gratuity, medical benefits, a safe w…
- The unorganised sector has small and scattered units largely outside the control of the government; rules exist but are not followed, jobs a…
~25 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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225 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
When a good is produced mainly by a natural process, which sector is that?
Beginner
A Secondary
B Tertiary
C Information technology
D Primary
Show answer & explanation
Primary
The exercise's own question: natural processes mark the primary sector.
A woman keeps bees and sells the honey her hives produce to a village co-operative. In which sector is her beekeeping?
Intermediate
A Secondary, because honey is manufactured in a factory
B Tertiary, because she sells the honey
C Primary, because honey is produced through a natural process
D None of the sectors
Show answer & explanation
Primary, because honey is produced through a natural process
Producing honey exploits a natural biological process.
A potter shapes clay pots on a wheel in his own courtyard. Which sector does his work belong to?
Intermediate
A Primary, because clay comes from the earth
B Tertiary, because pots are sold
C Secondary, because manufacturing can take place at home
D Only the organised sector
Show answer & explanation
Secondary, because manufacturing can take place at home
Changing clay into pots is manufacturing, wherever it happens.
Why is the primary sector called 'primary'?
Beginner
A Because it employs the fewest people in every country
B Because it forms the base for all other products we make
C Because it was the last sector to develop historically
D Because it produces only services for other sectors
Show answer & explanation
Because it forms the base for all other products we make
All other production starts from natural products.
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