A shift from manufacturing toward services shows up in GDP as a change in its:
ATotal measured value
BGeographic boundary
CTime period covered
DComposition by category
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Composition by category
1. GDP can change in size or in what makes it up.
2. A country's production is broken into five categories.
3. Durable and nondurable goods constitute the manufacturing sector.
4. They declined from 45 percent of GDP in 1960 to about 30 percent in 2016.
5. That is a change in the composition of GDP by category.
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 5 'The Macroeconomic Perspective'_
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