The charts below show the percentage of people aged 23-65 in different occupations in one UK town (Ashby) and in the UK as a whole in 2008

The following pie charts demonstrate the dissimilarity in the proportion of citizens aged 23-65 in different professions in one UK

town

(

Ashby

) and in the whole UK in 2008. As can be easily observed, the unemployment rates in

Ashby

were generally higher than the nationwide average rates.

Additionally

,

while

personal service was the most preferable area of work in only the surveyed

town

, office work was equally common for British people as a whole. Regarding the major components, personal service ranked first and constituted 21% of the workforce in

Ashby

, as opposed to the nation's average of 17%.

On the contrary

,

while

the largest proportion of the average UK working population labour in offices at 17%, it was marginally 8% lower at 9% in the

town

. In terms of the remaining sectors,

whereas

technical and professional personnel made up 17% and 14% of the national workforce, respectively,

this

figure only stood at only 9% and 8% respectively in the examined area. Considerably, with 16%, construction activity represented a larger slice of

Ashby

's occupations. A minor disparity of 4% was witnessed in the percentages of people who work in shops in the

town

compared to nationwide average rates, at 21% and 17% respectively.