The chart shows the unemployment situation in Australia in the year 2012.
The chart compares the percentage of the population who were unemployed in rural and urban
areas
in Australia in the year 2012.
Overall
, it can be seen that the figure for rural areas
decreased. However
, more people who lived in urban areas
lost their jobs.
Focusing on the first two quarters of 2012, there was about 6.5% and 2.2% of citizens who had no jobs in rural and urban areas
respectively. the period around the second quarter, the figure for the unemployment rate of urban areas
reached to point of about 4% of the population, by contrast
, the number of unemployed in rural areas
decreased to the lowest point presenting about 4.5%.
The time interval between the second and third quarters showed that the figures became a reversed trend in rural and urban areas
. the number of rural areas
increased when the number of urban areas
decreased. After the third quarter, the figure for the unemployment rate in rural areas
held at about 5% for the rest of the period whit little fluctuation. But the unemployment rate in urban areas
reached the highest point at the end
of the period with about 4.8%Submitted by sam132457 on
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