Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Sectors and Services

Sectors are an area of economy with related products and services. There are four services:
  • Primary - Extracting natural resources E.G. mining, farming.
  • Secondary - Manufacture E.G. factories, pottery.
  • Tertiary - Services + Knowledge E.G. education, entertainment.
  • Construction
Within these sectors they are further split into three categories:
  • 1st - Public Sector - State owned E.G. NHS
  • 2nd - Private - Privately owned businesses E.G. Cocacola
  • 3rd - Non profit - Charity organizations - E.G. Oxfam
There are also Service industries such as Real Estate, Education, Health and Defence. The Service industry which is most relevant to our course is the Creative industries. These include:
  • Advertising
  • Crafts
  • Film and Photography
  • Publishing
  • Architecture
  • Design
  • Games
  • TV
  • Arts and Antique
  • Designer Fashion
  • Music, Visual and Performing Arts
  • Radio
It is important that I know what is withing the Creative industries as there are a lot of useful resources at my disposal there and a lot of organizations that can help me in my education and future job prospects.

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