Companies are divided into two categories: Goods Producing sectors and Service Producing sectors. In simplistic terms: you make stuff or you do stuff.
One of the reasons the Goods Producing category is important is that many primary jobs are in these sectors. The NAICS categories include the Extractive Industries, Construction, and Manufacturing.
Only twice (1997 and 1998) since 1990 have all three sectors added jobs in the same year. At the midpoint of 2012, the trio are in a position to show gains for this year also. Previously the gains were a result of an economy hitting on all cylinders. This time the gains will occur because of an economy that has misfired and the sectors have nowhere else to go but up. They are playing a small, but extremely important role in the recovery.
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