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The national economy is broken into ten economic sectors, known as the NACE A10 classification. A description of each sector is shown in Table 6.1 (see Background Notes). Figure 3.1 shows the GVA percentage breakdown for each A10 sector at NUTS 3 level.
Industry including manufacturing is the largest of the A10 sector in all but two regions: the Midlands and Dublin City and County. The South-West region sees the largest contribution from the Industry sector where it makes up 77.9% of its regional GVA. Significant reliance on industry is also observed in the Mid-West where it accounts for 51.1% of its GVA respectively, followed by the West (42.4%), Mid-East (39.8%), South-East (34.3%) and Border (25.3%) regions.
Information and Communication makes up 36.3% of the GVA generated in Dublin City and County, it is the only region that sees a significant share of its GVA coming from Information & Communication. Industry contributes 15% to Dublin's GVA, followed by Professional, Admin & Support Services at 14.9% and Public Administration, Education & Health at 8.7%.
The Border and Midland regions see the greatest portion of their regional GVA come from Public Administration, Education & Health accounting for 21.9% and 23.3% respectively. Both the Midlands and Border regions are the lowest performers in terms of GVA and disposable income due to a smaller presence of more profitable activities such as Industry or Information & Communication in these regions.
The percentage breakdown of the total number employed by A10 sector at NUTS 3 level is shown in Figure 3.2. The distribution between sectors changes significantly compared to Figure 3.1 showing the GVA generated by certain sectors is not necessarily proportional to the number working within the sector. While we have seen the total number of workers varies considerably between regions, the distribution of workers between A10 sectors stays relatively consistent. The top three sectors in all regions except Dublin city and county are Public Admin., Education and Health; Distribution, Transport, Hotels and Restaurants, and Industry (including manufacturing). In Dublin City and County, Profressional, Admin & Support Services and the Information and Communication sectors takes precedence over Industry due to the presence of large IT multinationals.
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