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 displays the percentage of e-commerce

purchases

in several industries done by businesses from 2015 to 2019 in Canada.

Overall

, it is evident that every sector concluded with a higher percentage of e-commerce transactions compared to the initial period.

Moreover

, the Information & Communications sector exhibited the highest rate of

purchases

. Both

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Wholesale and construction followed a similar pattern, experiencing an upward trend. Despite the fact that online

purchases

in the Wholesale industry started at nearly double that of Construction, the latter finished only 6% lower than the former. Information

& Communication

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and communication

and Retail demonstrated almost identical trends. Online

purchases

in Information and Communication started at around 61%,

whereas

those in Retail were slightly above 30%. Both categories increased in 2016 and

then

sustained stability until 2018

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when they exhibited an increase of approximately 6%.

Next,

there was a marginal decline in both of them. During the initial two-year period, businesses made

purchases

in manufacturing at quite the same percentage as they were doing in retail.

However

, divergences emerged in 2017 when the growth in the Manufacturing industry was interrupted by a decline of around 6%. It

subsequently

recovered, concluding just below 60% of total e-commerce transactions in 2019.