4.1 (a) - EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION AND CLARK FISHER MODEL

Question 1

What are the 4 economic sectors?

Answer 1

Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary

Question 2

Primary sector

Answer 2

economic activities concerned with the working of natural resources - agriculture, fishing, mining, etc…

Question 3

Secondary sector

Answer 3

Processing raw material - making things - eg cars

Question 4

Tertiary sector

Answer 4

Provide services - commercial, professional and social

Question 5

Quaternary sector

Answer 5

Highly skilled services that require lots of research, collection and processing of information

Question 6

Development of country relation with sector

Answer 6

Developing country - primary sector

Develop country - tertiary sector

Question 7

Describe Clark Fisher model

Answer 7

As country develops, proportion of people employed in primary sector decreases and people in secondary and tertiary sector increase. More developments cause numbers in primary and secondary sector to keep falling, when tertiary sector because high performer, quaternary sector begins to emerge

Question 8

Three phases in the clark fisher model

Answer 8

• Pre-industrial phase
• Industrial phase
• Post-industrial phase

Question 9

Explain changes showed by the Clark Fisher model

Answer 9

As a country develops, agriculture starts to get mechanised. Labour is released for other forms of work. People move into urban areas and start working in factories. Higher wage in factory leads to more disposable income, so more money spent on services. This raises demand in the tertiary sector and makes is the most dominant (in terms of people employed and GDP)

Question 10

Relative importance in economic sector changes in terms of

Answer 10

• GDP from the economic sector

- Percentage of the country’s labour employed in the sector