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The Four Economic Sectors

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Economies are analyzed by sector: primary extracts raw materials, secondary manufactures finished goods, tertiary provides services, and quaternary produces ideas and information.

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A miner works the primary sector, a factory worker the secondary, a nurse the tertiary, and a researcher the quaternary.

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A developed economy is not free of the earlier sectors; it shifts what share of its workforce each sector employs.