The table below shows the percentage of employers in various sectors having difficulty in finding staff in 2003 and 2004.

The given table illustrates the proportion of job providers in various areas who had problems finding employees in 2003 and 2004. From an

overall

perspective, it is evident that the percentage of finding skilled workers was the highest,

whereas

a reverse pattern could be observed in the figures for technical and managerial ones over the areas and years shown. In 2003, the difficulty in hiring skilled workers in the manufacturing, building, commerce, and services sectors was highest, almost about 41% to 47%. The figure for finding unskilled ones was lower, at precisely 20% to 26%. The technical and managerial,

however

, accounted for the lowest number, at exactly 2% to 14%. Except for the commerce sector in which its proportion decreased to 41%, finding skilled employees increased slightly in the remaining sectors, reaching 45% to 51% in 2004. Correspondingly, there was

also

a steady rise in the percentage of unskilled workers, reaching 23% to 29% in all sectors except commerce, where it fell to 19% in the final year.

In contrast

, the period from 2003 to 2004 saw a constant decline in the data on technical and managerial ones to just 0% to 10% in 2004.