The bar charts below describe the weekly hours worked by people in four Scandinavian countries in 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar charts illustrate the data about the working
hours
of Scandinavian citizens from Denmark
, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The data are divided into 6 groups: 1-14, 15-20, 21-30, 31-34, 35-40 and 40+ hours
.
Overall
, it is obvious that more than 45 per cent of employees in all Scandinavian countries worked 35 to 40 hours
per week.
In detail, the number of workers who worked 1-14 hours
/week was the least percentage in four countries. Moreover
, working 15-20 hours
/week had a value more than other countries around 2 times in Norway and Sweden. However
, in Denmark
and Finland, there were just approximately 1.8 and 1.5, respectively.
Sweden and Norway had the closest proportion of individuals working 31-34 hours
, with 11.6 and 11.5 per cent, respectively. In addition
, Denmark
had the highest value in this
category, while
others had less than 12%. In contrast
, Denmark
had the lowest value in the 41+ age category, which was 1.75 times lower than the average.Submitted by chayada232 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, denmark with synonyms.
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