Employers sometimes ask people applying for jobs for personal information, such as their hobbies and interests, and whether they are married or single. Some people say that the information may be relevant and useful, others disagree. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

The bar charts illustrate the percentage of male and female residents in India and France according to their
age
group. Overall, it is clear from the graphs, that the main part of
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young people, while the distribution of residents across the
age
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the numbers of young and old Frenchmans are near to equal. One key difference between these countries is the fact, that the part of
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population in France is significantly higher than in India, as the values of residents, who are aged 70 or over, reach 12% and 3% correspondingly.
Moreover
, the ratio between male and female populations in these countries
also
isn't similar. In India, there is no difference in
this
criterion across all of the
age
groups, whereas in some ages the number of french females prevails the males, so that, generally, France tends to have more women than men.
For instance
, about 3% of Frenchmans are women in
age
35-40, while in the same only 2,5% are men in the same category.
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