Task 1: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Write at least 150 words

The given bar chart provides

the

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apply

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information about the percentage of some sectors in Canada that did online shopping transactions from 2015 to 2019.

Overall

, among five companies, Information and communications dominated the purchasing proportion each year.

On the other hand

, both construction and wholesale experienced

gradual

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a gradual

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increased

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increase

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. In 2015, telecommunication made slightly over 60%

buying

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of buying

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.

This

was comparably higher if compared to the others that only made about 23% to 40% in the same year. The number

was increasing

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increased

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and stable in the next two years and

raised

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reached

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its peak in 2018

with

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by

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more than 70%. Even though it went down to 69% in 2019, the number was still the highest. The closest

competitor

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competitors

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in

this

period were wholesale (60%) and manufacturing (59%). Constriction and retail were about the same at 55%. Construction was the lowest in 2015 which only made up 22%, but the number started to increase in the next four years. The peak was in 2019 with 55% purchase. The same trend was seen in Wholesale. It started at around 40% and raised gradually to 62% in 2019.