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There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw
material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector,
involving refining, construction, and manufacturing the tertiary sector, which deals
with services (such as law and medicine) and distribution of manufactured goods
and the quaternary sector, a relatively new type of knowledge industry focusing
on technological research, design and development such as computer programming,
and biochemistry. A fifth quinary sector has been proposed encompassing nonprofit
activities. The economy is also broadly separated into public sector and private
sector, with industry generally categorized as private. Industries are also any
business or manufacturing.
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