WHAT IS OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE

 What is Occupational Structure?

Wilbert Masamba

The occupational structure of a nation refers to the percentage of its workforce employed in various economic ventures. To put it in other words, articulating how many of the total working population are employed in agriculture and associated activities and how many of them are involved in manufacturing and service sector can be identified from the occupational structure of the nation.

-Simply speaking the occupational structure of a country refers to the division of its work force engaged in different economic activities.

Otherwise speaking how many of the total working population are engaged in agriculture and allied activities and how many of them are engaged in industrial and service sector can be known from the occupational structure of the country

Occupational structure :

 The percentage of population that is economically active is an important index of development. The distribution of the population according to different types of occupation is referred to as the occupational structure.

 - Occupations are generally classified as primary, secondary and tertiary. 

(i) Primary activities include agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, fishery, mining and quarrying, etc. 

(ii) Secondary activities include manufacturing industry, building and construction work, etc.

 (iii) Tertiary activities include transport, communication, commerce, administration and other activities