New Jersey Industries

Which activities form part of New Jersey’s life-sciences cluster?

• Only agricultural irrigation
• Only highway paving
• Only coastal recreation
• Pharmaceutical production, biotechnology, and related research

About how many people worked in New Jersey’s life-sciences cluster in 2024 according to state labor research?

• 850,000
• 850
• 85,000
• 8.5 million

Approximately how many life-sciences establishments did that report identify for New Jersey in 2024?

• 24
• 2,400
• 24,000
• 240,000

About how many workers did New Jersey manufacturing employ in 2024 in state labor research?

• 253,000
• 2.53 million
• 25,300
• 1,253

Approximately how many manufacturing establishments were reported in New Jersey in 2024?

• 980
• 980,000
• 98
• 9,800

Approximately how many people worked in New Jersey health care in 2024 according to the cited sector report?

• 52,400
• 5,240
• 524,000
• 5.24 million

Which comparison correctly describes manufacturing and health care output?

• Both produce only physical cars
• Manufacturing produces goods, while health care largely provides services
• Health care can never count toward GDP
• Neither generates value added

Why is manufacturing value added different from the total sales of manufactured products?

• Intermediate inputs must not be counted repeatedly as new output
• GDP counts only export prices
• Sales and value added are identical by definition
• Value added is always greater than every sales total

Why might New Jersey’s largest-employment industry not be its largest-GDP industry?

• Only manufacturing creates GDP
• All industries have identical worker productivity
• GDP never includes services
• Industries vary in output per worker