... gas. The secondary sector is concerned with the production of all the other goods in the economy, which will obviously include the processing of materials produced by the primary sector. Industry and manufacturing are covered by this sector, as is the construction industry. The tertiary sector comprises of services, which may be provided by either the public or the private sector. Economists sometime combine the primary and secondary sectors and refer to them as the "goods sector", in order to assess the size of these two sectors when compared with the service sector. It is equally useful to occasionally omit the construction industry from analysis of the secondary sector, and instead incorporate the extraction of gas and the mining of coal and coke. This reduced group is referred to as the "production industries". To analyse how the structure of the UK economy has changed, it is necessary to see how ...

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