The chart below shows the proportion of businesses making e-commerce purchases by industry in Canada between 2015 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates what businesses buy online depending on the industry from 2015 to 2019 in Canada.

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, it can be seen that the largest number of purchases made in all years was in the field of information and communication,

whereas

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construction constituted the least. In detail, the sales of online purchasing started as the highest of all at precisely 60% in 2015 and continued growing till 2018, when it reached a peak at just under 80%.

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, both construction and wholesale industries were gradually going up throughout the given period. The initial percentage of construction sales was just over 20%,

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the wholesale constituted twice as much in almost every year ( with 40% in 2015). In terms of manufacturing online purchases, it fluctuated throughout the years.Beginning in 2015 with 30% and followed by a marked rise to 50% the next year.

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, the retail industry showed the same patterns in 2015-2016. As opposed to the

last

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few years when manufacturing first witnessed a sharp fall and

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a steady rise to nearly 60% in 2019.

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, retail’s percentage continued to moderately go up.