The chart below shows the number of people employed in five types of work in one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided chart gives data on the

quantity

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of employees in five different kinds of jobs in a particular region of Australia between 2001 and 2008.

Overall

, it can be seen clearly that most of these jobs witnessed an upward trend in their employees, except

accounting

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and farming. Notably,

while

sales held the highest number of workers, farming held the lowest number of employees. To be more specific, the initial figure for sales in 2001 was 157

thousand

,

then

it increased considerably to about 168

thousand

by 2008. The same trend can be seen in the figures for computing and nursing.

While

the former surged from 60

thousand

to approximately 80

thousand

, the latter rose slightly from 58

thousand

to 60

thousand

over the same period.

By contrast

, accounting and farming experienced a downward trend between 2001 and 2008. Both figures for these two jobs decreased significantly by about 10

thousand

, from 70

thousand

to 60

thousand

at the former and from 30

thousand

to 20

thousand

at the latter.