THREE SECTORS

ENTREPRENEURSHIPS
THREE MAIN SECTORS IN ECONOMY

 Primary
 Secondary

 Tertiary
PRIMARY SECTOR

 The economic sector in which businesses use land

and natural resources to survive.
 Types of businesses
 Farming
 Fishing
 Forestry
 Mining
 Extracting oil and gas
 Packing and processing raw materials
 Hunting and gathering
SECONDARY SECTOR
 The economic sector in which people use raw materials from
the primary sector to process or manufacture things people
can use.
 Types of businesses
 Food and drink factories
 Textile factories
 Clothing manufactures
 Bottling plants
 Chemical plants
 Construction
 Car factories, ship-building yards
 Anything to do with building, engineering and working metals
TERTIARY SECTOR
 The economic sector in which businesses offer
services to the public
 Types of businesses
 Schools for education services
 Hospitals for healthcare services
 Banks for money management services
 Law firms and courts for legal services
 Restaurants for food and drink
 Tourism for entertainment services
 Transportation services
 Media services
THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE THREE
SECTORS

Primary Sector Secondary Sector Tertiary Sector

SUSTAINABLE USE OF RESOURCES IN THE
THREE SECTORS
 The resources that businesses use during production
are non-renewable and renewable.
 Examples of non-renewable are water, coal and oil. Once
we have used up all these, we cannot produce more. Oil
is used to make petrol and diesel.
 Examples of renewable resources are wood, agricultural
products. These resources can be replaced.
 Primary sector needs resources to exist, Secondary
sector don’t get any resources from primary sector, they
cannot manufacture any goods. If no goods are
manufactured, the Tertiary sector will cease to exist.
ROLE OF THE THREE SECTORS IN THE ECONOMY

 In poorer countries, most of the money comes

from the primary sector.
 In richer countries, most of the money comes from
the tertiary sector.
 In South Africa, Agriculture, in the primary sector
contributes 2% to the country’s GDP.
 Car manufacturing in the Secondary sector
contributes 6% to the country’s GDP.
 Tourism in the Tertiary sector contributes 7,9% to
the country’s GDP.
TYPES OF SKILLS REQUIRED IN EACH SECTOR

 Skilled : does require a high level of skill

thorough training.
 Semi–skilled: does require some skill and
training.
 Unskilled : does not require a high level of skills
and often involves physical labour.
PRIMARY SECTOR

 Primary sector
 Workers in primary sector do things like working on
mines, farms, fishing and plantations
 They often do physical work and often requires low
skill levels
 However many jobs in primary sector requires high
skilled levels such managing
SECONDARY SECTOR

 Secondary sector
 Do things like operating factory machinery and
production lines in manufacturing businesses
 They require a fair level of skills – semi-skilled

 However they require high skill levels such as

planning and designing the manufacture of
complex aircraft and electronics
TERTIARY SECTOR

 Tertiary sector
 Workers do things like medical treatment, teach,
provide finance and IT services
 They have often studied at a University or
Educational institute – requires high skill level
 However this sector also requires semi-skilled or
unskilled labour
 For example admin assistance (semi-skilled) and a
cleaner in hospitals (unskilled)