Chapter :- 2 Sectors of the Indian Economy
1. The employment and non-employment figures are taken from ____ to study the data.
(a) Real-Time Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy.
(b) National Statistical Office (NSSO)
(c) NITI Aayog
(d) Statistics information Bureau
2. What are the groups of classification of an economy?
(a) Sectors
(b) Centres
(c) Types
(d) Categories
3. When we produce a good by exploiting natural resources it is called____?
(a) Tertiary sector
(b) Primary sector
(c) Service sector
(d) Public sector
4. Which activities come under the agriculture and related sectors?
(a) Dairy
(b) Mineral excavation
(c) using cotton fibre from the plant
(d) Selling agricultural products in the market
5. What is the secondary sector?
(a) production of a good by exploiting natural
resources
(b) activities in which natural products are changed
into other forms through ways of manufacturing
(c) activities, by themselves, do not produce a good
but they are an aid or support for the production
process.
(d) Mineral excavation
6. Using sugarcane as raw material, we make sugar or
gur, under what sector does this activity come?
(a) Primary
(b) Private
(c) Industrial
(d) Tertiary
7. Those activities, by themselves, do not produce a
good but they are an aid or support for the production
process, are called_____.
(a) Primary
(b) Private
(c) Industrial
(d) Tertiary
8. From the given option select the functioning activity
of the Tertiary sector.
(a) goods that are produced would need to be
transported by trucks or trains and then sold in
wholesale and retail shops
(b) this sector gradually became associated with the
different kinds of industries
(c) activities in which natural products are changed
into other forms through ways of manufacturing
(d) produce a good by exploiting natural resources
9. Which sector is also called the service sector?
(a) Primary
(b) Public
(c) Industrial
(d) Tertiary
10. The sum of production in the three sectors gives, is
called the ___ of a country.
(a) Gross income
(b) Gross Domestic Product
(c) Net Domestic Product
(d) Net income
11. The value of final goods and services produced in each
sector during a particular year provides the____.
(a) Average Production of the sector for that year
(b) Net Production of the sector for that year
(c) Total production of the sector for that year.
(d) Gross production of the sector for that year
12. Which one is a primary occupation?
(a) Tailor
(b) Basket weaver
(c) Flower cultivator
(d) Milk vendor
13. Not every good (or service) that is produced and sold
needs to be counted. It makes sense only to include
the ____ to get the total production?
(a) values of goods and services in production
(b) final goods and services
(c) adding up the actual numbers of goods
(d) goods and services in the three sectors
14. From the given option select an example of an
intermediate good?
(a) Woven basket
(b) Chair production from wood
(c) Wheat flour
(d) Biscuits
15. It has been noted from the histories of many,
now developed, countries that at initial stages of
development, ____ sector was the most important
sector of economic activity.
(a) Public
(b) Tertiary
(c) Secondary
(d) Primary
16. As the methods of farming changed and the
agriculture sector began to prosper, most of the
goods produced were ____from the primary sector
and most people were also employed in this sector?
(a) Synthetic products
(b) Involved machines
(c) Natural products
17. Why did the Secondary sector later become the most
important sector? Select he correct option.
(a) People began to use many more goods that were
produced in factories at cheap rates
(b) Employment increased
(c) Agriculture declined
(d) a and b
18. In developed countries, the____ sector has become
the most important in terms of total production.
(a) Primary
(b) Industrial
(c) Service
(d) Public
19. The primary sector is also called____.
(a) Service sector
(b) Agriculture and related sector
(c) Pre- industry sector
(d) Unorganized sector
20. In the data given of GDP which was the most
productive sector in 2013-14?
(a) Primary
(b) Tertiary
(c) Secondary
(d) Equal production
21. The secondary sector is also called____.
(a) Organised sector
(b) Service sector
(c) Industrial sector
(d) Public sector
22. Which sector has grown the most over forty years?
(a) Primary
(b) Tertiary
(c) Secondary
(d) Equal production
23. Which of these can be considered as basic services?
(a) Growing of wheat
(b) Transport
(c) Storage
(d) Police station
24. Greater the development of the primary and
secondary sectors, ____would be the demand for
such services?
(a) Equal
(b) More
(c) Less
(d) Uneven
25. When income levels rise, certain sections of people
start demanding many more services like____.
(a) A. More food
(b) Hospitals
(c) Defense
(d) Tourism
26. Over the past decade or so, certain new services such
as ____ have become important and essential?
(a) private hospitals
(b) professional training
(c) information and communication technology
(d) Insurance
27. Underemployment is hidden in contrast to someone
who does not have a job and is clearly visible as
unemployed. It is also called _____.
(a) Hidden employment
(b) Disguised unemployment.
(c) Unstable employment
(d) Less employment
28. The sectors are classified into public and private
sector on the basis of:
(a) employment conditions
(b) the nature of economic activity
(c) ownership of enterprises
(d) number of workers employed in the enterprise
29. Production of a commodity, mostly through the
natural process, is an activity in _____ sector.
(a) Primary
(b) Secondary
(c) Tertiary
(d) Information technology
30. GDP is the total value of _____produced during
a particular year.
(a) all goods and services
(b) all final goods and services
(c) all intermediate goods and services
(d) all intermediate and final goods and services
31. _____ sector help in development of primary and
secondary sector.
(a) Private sector
(b) Public sector
(c) Tertiary sector
(d) Agriculture
32. MNREGA was launched in
(a) 2004
(b) 2005
(c) 2006
(d) 2007
33. Most of the workers in the ____ sector enjoy job
security.
(a) Organised
(b) Unorganised
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
34. Which of the following is not part of tertiary sector?
(a) Banks
(b) Hospitals
(c) ATMs
(d) Mining
35. There are many activities that are undertaken by
directly using natural resources. Which of the
following is the example of this activity?
(a) the cultivation of cotton.
(b) spin yarn and weave cloth from cotton
(c) sugar or gur.
(d) use of bricks to make houses
36. _____activities, do not produce a good but they
are an aid or a support for the production process.
(a) Secondary Sector
(b) Primary Sector
(c) tertiary sector
(d) all of these
37. ____ sector is also called the service sector.
(a) Primary
(b) secondary
(c) tertiary
(d) none of these
38. Which of the following is not the example of Tertiary
sector?
(a) Transport
(b) Internet cafe
(c) Communication
(d) Milk
39. _____ sector also includes some essential services
that may not directly help in the production of goods.
(a) Secondary
(b) Primary
(c) Service
(d) all of these
40. ____ sector is also called agriculture and related
sector?
(a) secondary
(b) service
(c) primary
(d) tertiary
41. Which of the given sectors forms the base for all
other products that we subsequently make?
(a) manufacturing sectors
(b) primary sectors
(c) secondary sectors
(d) tertiary sectors
42. Tata Iron and Steel company is example of
(a) Private Company
(b) Government Company
(c) Technology Company
(d) None of these
43. In India, the mammoth task of measuring GDP is
undertaken by
(a) Parliament
(b) President
(c) Government of India
(d) State government
44. Extraction of raw materials is the activity of
_____sector.
(a) primary
(b) secondary
(c) tertiary
(d) All of these
45. What one of the following activities comes under
primary sector ?
(a) Agriculture
(b) dairy
(c) fishing
(d) banking
46. The ____is dependent on the ___ for supply of
raw materials to keep up continuous production.
(a) secondary sector, primary sector
(b) primary sector, tertiary sector
(c) secondary sector, tertiary sector
(d) primary sector, secondary sector
47. Which sector is dominant sector in terms of
employment?
(a) primary sector
(b) tertiary sector
(c) secondary sector
(d) service sector
48. Economists suggest that the____ of goods and
services should be used rather than adding up the
_____?
(a) values, actual numbers
(b) actual numbers, values
(c) Any numbers,less values
(d) values,false numbers
49. The size of a nation’s economy is commonly expressed
as its
(a) GDP
(b) RIL
(c) TISCO
(d) MGNREGA
50. The total production of a year in the three sectors is
calculated from_____.
(a) the value of goods calculated separately at all
stages of production in that sector
(b) the value of final goods produced in that sector
(c) the value of final goods and services produced in
all the sector
(d) the value of final goods and services produced in
the three sectors
