The line charts give information about the demand for steel and number of workers employed in a country from January to December.

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demand

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for steel and the number of workers employed in a given country over a

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period. Looking from an

overall

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perspective, it is readily apparent that both

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and employment fluctuated but followed similar

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trends. By the

end

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of the period, actual

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had overtaken

production

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. In the first 2 months of the

year

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, workers (6,000), steel

production

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(5,000) and actual

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(3,000) peaked. From there, the number of workers fell steeply to 3,000 in March and was flat through April,

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production

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dropped below 4,000 tonnes and remained stable

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July. Actual

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decreased, though it fluctuated between 2 and 3,000 tonnes through September, before plummeting to 0 in November and recovering to 2,000 in December.

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pattern was largely mirrored by both

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and employment as the former crashed from a second peak of nearly 5,000 in July to under 1,000 by the

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of the period (with no recovery). Employment numbers rose to 3,500 in August and had steadily subsided to 1,000 by the

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of the

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.