The table below shows employment patterns for males and females in New Zealand in 1993 and 2003. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given table illustrates the trend in the difficulties in finding various sorts of employees in four different sectors, namely manufacturing, building, commerce and services in 2003 and 2004.

Overall

, it was most challenging to employ skilled workers in all sectors

whereas

the figure for technical and managerial workers was the lowest in both years.

Firstly

, it is hard to employ skilful labourers in all sorts of work. Especially, the number for manufacturing in 2004 was more than half, which is at the top of the table.

In addition

, it was least challenging in services in 2003 despite

this

was

also

more than 40%. Another point to note is that recruiting technical and administrative labourers was relatively easier than the other types of workers.

In particular

, 0% of difficulty was recorded in the commerce section in 2004,

while

the highest figure was observed in the building industry in 2003, which was 14%.

However

,

this

was only a third of the lowest number in recruiting skilled employees approximately.