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Economic activities are classified into how many main sectors?Read the answer and worked solution →Mining and quarrying belong to which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →Banking, education and health belong to which sector?Read the answer and worked solution →Activities performed for pay or profit are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Household work done by women is not recognised in the:Read the answer and worked solution →The quality of population depends on literacy, skill formation and health indicated by:Read the answer and worked solution →Pace-setting schools established in each district are the:Read the answer and worked solution →Plan outlay on education rose from Rs 151 crore in the first plan to how much in the eleventh plan?Read the answer and worked solution →Expenditure on education as a share of GDP rose from 0.64 per cent in 1951-52 to about what in 2015-16?Read the answer and worked solution →India's literacy rate rose from 18 per cent in 1951 to what in 2010-11?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2011 literacy varied from 94 per cent in Kerala to 62 per cent in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sarva Siksha Abhiyan aims at elementary education for all children aged:Read the answer and worked solution →The 12th plan targeted a higher education Gross Enrolment Ratio of what by 2020-21?Read the answer and worked solution →Infant mortality rate is the death of a child below what age?Read the answer and worked solution →India's life expectancy rose to over how many years by 2014?Read the answer and worked solution →Infant mortality fell from 147 in 1951 to what in 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →The workforce population includes people aged:Read the answer and worked solution →When eight people work a plot that needs only five, the three extra are:Read the answer and worked solution →Urban areas in India mostly face which type of unemployment?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the primary activitiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the education wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the human development numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the economy wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rural or urban unemploymentRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the three sectorsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →People as resource bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Food security means availability, accessibility and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which economist added the dimension of access to food through entitlements?Read the answer and worked solution →The World Food Summit that defined food security at all levels was held in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Economic activities are classified into how many main sectors?

  1. Seven
  2. Three
  3. Four
  4. Five
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Correct answer: B. Three

1. They are primary, secondary and tertiary. 2. There are three sectors. 3. Agriculture is primary and manufacturing is secondary. _Source: syllabus Economics, Chapter 2, People as Resource._

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Mining and quarrying belong to which sector?

  1. Tertiary
  2. Quaternary
  3. Primary
  4. Secondary
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Correct answer: C. Primary

1. Primary also covers agriculture, forestry, fishing and poultry. 2. Mining and quarrying are primary activities. 3. Manufacturing is secondary. _Source: syllabus Economics, Chapter 2, People as Resource._

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Banking, education and health belong to which sector?

  1. Primary
  2. Secondary
  3. Informal
  4. Tertiary
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Correct answer: D. Tertiary

1. Trade, transport and tourism are also tertiary. 2. These services are tertiary. 3. Their activities add value to national income. _Source: syllabus Economics, Chapter 2, People as Resource._

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