Economic sector

High-level grouping of economic activities based on the types of goods and services produced.=

There is a general agreement on having a high-level breakdown of the economic activity in three main sectors:

• Primary (extraction, fishing, farming, etc.);
• Secondary (manufacturing);
• Tertiary (sales and services).

Some authors add two new categories:

• Quaternary (information and knowledge-based services);
• Quinary (human services).

World Bank, "Sector Taxonomy and definitions, Revised July 1, 2016"

CL_ACTIVITY

Codelist CL_ACTIVITY