The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in new Zeland in 2003 and 2013.

The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in new Zeland in 2003  and 2013.
The two charts show how the online shopping
sales
for retail sectors in New Zealand changed over 10 years. They compare the percentages of online
sales
across
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different retail sectors in New Zealand throughout the reported period. It is noticeable that ,for three of the sectors,over
this
timeframe
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proportion of online transactions. At 23% we can see that the travel sector accounted for the majority of online
sales
in 2003, but
this
percentage dropped to 29% by 2013 .Across the same 10-year period,as an increasing number of people chose to purchase films and music online ,we can see that transactions went from just 21% to 33%, making it the retail sector with the highest
overall
share of the online market. Another striking change was the portion on
sales
of clothes. In 2003, the clothing industry boasted an impressive 24% of total online
sales
in New Zealand .
However
, by 2013, the figure had fallen considerably to 16%. Interestingly, the internet
sales
of books overtook
sales
of clothes,
although
books still represented only 22% of the market%.
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