The chart shows the unemployment situation in Australia in the year 2012. summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparision where relevant.

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chart compares data on the status of unemployment in the Australian country in 2012.

Overall

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, the rate had increasingly gone down in rural areas.

On the contrary

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, it was the opposite trend for potential workers in urban areas in 2012. During the first two quarters of the year 2012, the non-employment situation in the countryside steadily decreased, going from approximately 6.5% to 5.5% in the second quarter of that year.

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, the urban areas’ rate had importantly increased over the first 6 months reaching at least 4% at that end. Looking at the information in more detail, there was an important drop in the non-employed individuals' situation, losing in a few months a minimum of 1% in the urban side of Australia and a maximum of 2% in the countryside.

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, the unemployment rate had continued to augment at a similar pace of 1.1% per quarter of 2012.