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Types and levels of production

Production is making goods and providing services to satisfy people’s wants. CSEC sorts it two ways: by the type of work done (extractive, construction, manufacturing, service) and by who the output is for (from the family’s own use to export).

By the end of this page you can

  • Classify an industry as extractive, construction, manufacturing or service
  • Tell subsistence, domestic, surplus and export production apart
  • Follow a product through each type of production
  • Define primary, secondary and tertiary production
  • Give Caribbean examples of each type and level

Goals tick themselves off as you try the activities below.

A close view of brown cocoa beans spread out to dry in the sun in Guadeloupe.

Photo: Pkraemer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, resized, JPEG q70.

Cocoa beans drying in Guadeloupe: the first step on a journey that runs through every type of production.

How often it shows up in past papers

All papers21 of 23 papers
Last 55 of 5 · 2023–2026

Paper 1 counts come from our past-paper bank of CSEC Principles of Business Paper 1s. The last-5 row shows how often it came up in the five most recent papers.

Inside this topic

  1. Four typesLocked
  2. Four levelsLocked
  3. Pod to bargameLocked
  4. Key termsLocked
  5. Test yourselfmarkedLocked
  6. Practise for real · 30 past questionsLocked