The charts below show the percentage of people working in different sectors in town A and town B in 1960, 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the percentage of people working in different sectors in town A and town B in 1960, 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart illustrates the proportion of how many people
working
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worked
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in three separate sectors in
town
A and
town
B
in two years (1960, 2010).
Overall
, there was an increase in the figure for workers working in the services
sector
in both
town
A and
town
B
,
while
the opposite trend was seen in the manufacturing
sector
.
In addition
, the percentage of people working in the manufacturing
sector
was the highest throughout the period. The proportion of people in the producing
sector
in
town
A and
town
B
declined from 41% to 20%, from 20% to 53% respectively. The figure for the services
sector
in
town
A was at 29% followed by a subsequent three-fold increase to 64%. A similar change, but to a lesser extent, was seen in
town
B
, which
from
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10% to 25%
at the end
of the examined period. 30% of workers were working in the sales
sector
in
town
A in 1960, with a two-fold decrease to 16%. The figure in
town
B
started at 20%,
afterwhich
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after which
it experienced a slow increase to 22% in 2010.
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