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54 <br />CABARRUS <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br />Information — NAICS 51 <br />Information <br />% of Total Employment by County 2Q12 <br />4 <br />3.5 <br />3 <br />2.5 <br />2 <br />1.5 <br />1 <br />0.5 <br />0 <br />The Information sector <br />comprises establishments <br />engaged in the following <br />processes: (a) producing <br />and distributing information <br />and cultural products, (b) <br />providing the means to <br />transmit or distribute these <br />products as well as data or <br />communications, and (c) <br />processing data. <br />* �G <br />The main components of <br />J ��� ���� ���� ���� ���� <br />0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o this sector are the <br />G G G G G G G G G G G G <br />a�aot 0"\ c t���a�a�� 0\��a a oc` a 0p `�G <br />a �t� 0 -S ;t� o�a� ���� � � publishing industries, <br />o+ P a p G V o 5 J including software <br />Q� G publishing, and both <br />traditional publishing and <br />publishing exclusively on <br />the Internet; the motion picture and sound recording industries; the broadcasting industries, including <br />traditional broadcasting and those broadcasting exclusively over the Internet; the telecommunications <br />industries; the industries known as Internet service providers and web search portals, data processing <br />industries, and the information services industries. <br />The expressions "information age" and "global information economy" are used with considerable <br />frequency today. The general idea of an "information economy" includes both the notion of industries <br />primarily producing, processing, and distributing information, as well as the idea that every industry is <br />using available information and information technology to reorganize and make themselves more <br />productive. <br />For the purpose of developing NAICS, it is the transformation of information into a commodity that is <br />produced and distributed by a number of growing industries that is at issue. The Information sector <br />groups three types of establishments: (1) those engaged in producing and distributing information and <br />cultural products; (2) those that provide the means to transmit or distribute these products as well as data <br />or communications; and (3) those that process data. Cultural products are those that directly express <br />attitudes, opinions, ideas, values, and artistic creativity; provide entertainment; or offer information and <br />analysis concerning the past and present. Included in this definition are popular, mass - produced, <br />products as well as cultural products that normally have a more limited audience, such as poetry books, <br />literary magazines, or classical records. <br />Cabarrus Economic Development 3003 Dale Earnhardt Boulevard, Kannapolis, NC 28083 USA <br />704.782.4000 1 CabarrusEDC.com I FaceBook.com /CabarrusEDC I Twitter.com /CabarrusEDC <br />INTFYNAnONAL ECONOMIC. <br />OEVEI.OFME.NT COUNCIL <br />1 -3 Page 326 <br />