The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in 2003 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The pie graphs illustrate the sales of online shopping for the retail sector in New Zealand between 2003 and 2013.
Overall
,
it is clear that
films / music and travel take a large proportion of the pie chart, at 33% and 29% respectively,
while
clothes had the lowest percentage at about 16% during 2013. In 2003, the travel sector held the majority of online sales at 36%,
moreover
, other sectors had a similar rate nearly one-fifth per cent for each of them. After 10 years, the films/music department showed a significant increase in profit by 12% and arrived at one-third per cent, meanwhile, the travel department no longer holds the highest percentage, and it showed a decrease of 7% and has 29%, but still hold the second highest sales in retails field.
In addition
, books display a slight rise in number and reached 22%,
on the other hand
, the clothes ratio falls drastically from 24% to 16%
at the end
of the period.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Retail sectors
  • Online shopping sales
  • Market share
  • E-commerce
  • Growth trend
  • Significant change/increase/decrease
  • Percentage points
  • Consumer behavior
  • Shopping patterns
  • Revenue
  • Electronic goods
  • Clothing and footwear
  • Health and beauty products
  • Digital downloading
  • Leisure and personal goods
  • Sector analysis
  • Year-over-year comparison
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