Economy Segments

Economy Segments (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Industries and Specialties lesson that introduces its participants to industries, professional specialties, and related topics.

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This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Employment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is What Economy Is.

Key terms

Economy segment. An area of the economy. Two major conventional classifications divide enterprises in:

1. Three groups, the public sector, private sector, and nonprofit sector, depending on their ownership.
2. Three or four groups, the primary sector, secondary sector, tertiary sector, and, optionally, quaternary sector, in which enterprises are grouped based on a type of produced products. This classification also fits into economic phases of precedence, since lower levels of the economy emerged before higher levels and higher levels depend on lower ones. However, every enterprise usually produces some mix of products, so it can belong to several segments.

Both classifications use the same term, sector. Neither of the classifications takes single households into account.

• Primary sector (primary degree of the economy, primary stage of the economy, raw materials industry). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that extract from nature, renew, and pre-process those raw materials or substances such as agriculture and mining products that the manufacturing industry will further process to create those goods and services that can be eventually consumed by end-users.
• Secondary sector (secondary degree of the economy, secondary stage of the economy). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce physical goods to be eventually consumed by end-users.
• Tertiary sector (tertiary degree of the economy, tertiary stage of the economy). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce physical, non-digital services such as retail, tourism, traditional banking, entertainment, etc.
• Quaternary sector (quaternary degree of the economy, quaternary stage of the economy). One of two:
  1. The information technology industry or economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce digital products; OR
  2. The economy segment that groups those enterprises that do research and design new products.

Script

Economy segments may be classified in numerous ways. Two can be considered conventional ones. Fortunately or unfortunately, both use the same term, sector.

Depending on their ownership, enterprises can be easily divided in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Another classification groups enterprises based on a type of produced products. This classification is less clear because one enterprise may produce various types of products, but still popular. Its sectors are ranked in the way how they were launched historically.

• Primary sector (primary degree of the economy, primary stage of the economy, raw materials industry). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that extract from nature, renew, and pre-process those raw materials or substances such as agriculture and mining products that the manufacturing industry will further process to create those goods and services that can be eventually consumed by end-users.
• Secondary sector (secondary degree of the economy, secondary stage of the economy). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce physical goods to be eventually consumed by end-users.
• Tertiary sector (tertiary degree of the economy, tertiary stage of the economy). The economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce physical, non-digital services such as retail, tourism, traditional banking, entertainment, etc.
• Quaternary sector (quaternary degree of the economy, quaternary stage of the economy). One of two:
  1. The information technology industry or economy segment that groups those enterprises that produce digital products; OR
  2. The economy segment that groups those enterprises that do research and design new products.

What Industry Is is the successor lectio.