The table below gives information about the percentage of workforce employed in six industries in Australia between 1989 and 2009.
The table illustrates how workers were employed in six industries in Australia from 1989 to 2009.
Overall
, more people worked in healthcare, construction, education and tourism throughout the period while
the opposite was true for retail and manufacturing. Additionally
, tourism had the fewest employees working over the ten-year period.
In further
detail, 9.6% of the workforce were
employed in healthcare in 1989, before rising considerably to 11.3% in 2009, making it the most popular industry at that time. The percentages of workers in construction and education saw a gradual increase, ranging from 6.8% and 7.6% to 7.5% and 8.3% ten years later. Tourism, despite being the least favourable industry, had its proportion grow noticeably by around 2%
Moving onto other categories, Correct subject-verb agreement
was
although
manufacturing was the most popular industry with 15% of workforce
employed in 1989, the figure dropped significantly to 9.8% in 2009. Experiencing Add an article
the workforce
the
similar trend but to a smaller extent, the proportion of employees in retail recorded at 11.8% to 10.1% after ten years,Correct article usage
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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