Consider your community and the kinds of businesses that employ the people around you. which of the five economic sectors (primary through quinary) dominates your community? describe your community's economy. which sector is dominant in your hometown? i live in pa

The primary sector of the economy extracts or harvests products from the earth, such as raw materials and basic foods. Activities associated with primary economic activity include agriculture (both subsistence and commercial), mining, forestry, grazing, hunting and gathering, fishing, and quarrying. The packaging and processing of raw materials are also considered to be part of this sector.

In developed and developing countries, a decreasing proportion of workers is involved in the primary sector. Only about 2 percent of the U.S. labor force is engaged in primary sector activity today, a dramatic decrease from the mid-19th century when more than two-thirds of the labor force consisted of primary-sector workers.

answerpeople organize large projects such as levee-building;