Introduction to Business Activity - Public and Private Sector Activities
See if you can recognise the difference between public and private sector activities by printing out the images below. Put those that you think represent a public sector activity in one pile and those which you think are private sector activities in another.
Refuse collection
Road construction
Building offices
Railways
PC manufacturer
A park
A leisure park
An estate agent
A hospital
A funeral directors
A farm
The police
Oil refinery
Quarrying
Fishing
A power station
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Remember that some of these activities could be in both the public and the private sector! We are now going to look at other ways we might be able to classify business activity.