Talk:Economic sector

Is anyone paying attention to this page? Time for some clean-up
So it seems as if Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Financial Times, WorldBank, and others, I'm sure, have different sector classification systems. However, the NAICS is, according to Wikipedia, somewhat compatible with the International_Standard_Industrial_Classification and the Statistical_classification_of_economic_activities_in_the_European_Community (NACE) of the EU. We'll have to keep this in mind as the article is improved.

Anyway, I may put in some work on this page if I find the time. Maybe. It would be nice to have a broad overview of sectors on Wikipedia. ImpIn | (t - c) 08:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

No new updates yet ? Raadiyah Emam (talk) 07:09, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Changed the sectors of industry to sectors of the economy
I changed all the sectors, which were titled either "sector of economic activity" or "sector of industry" randomly. Maybe this change was unnecessary and ill-thought out, as "sector of industry" is shorter. But at least they're all the same now. "Industry", for better or worse, tends to be associated with manufacturing itself rather than service goods, even though it can refer to any sort of economic activity. Dictionary.com reflects that bias: "1.	the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry." ImpIn | (t - c) 03:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I propose we get rid of quinary sector
The quinary sector, proposed in 1953 is not compatible with quaternary system (they assign different industries to categories #3 and #4, let alone #5). As it's presented now, it looks like the quinary system is an extension of the quaternary system, but I don't think it is. I left some comments on the quinary page as well. Comments welcome. Tedsanders (talk) 23:46, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Lede
What is an "economic sector", anyhow? Is it simply a model to divide economic activity? Power~enwiki (talk) 17:06, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Combine with Three-sector model
These pages cover the same thing. I'd propose a redirect. RnRa76 (talk) 05:03, 23 December 2018 (UTC)