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.

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

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

accounting

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for accounting

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and farming. Notably,

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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

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it increased considerably to about 168

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

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the former surged from 60

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to approximately 80

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, the latter rose slightly from 58

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to 60

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over the same period.

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

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, from 70

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to 60

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at the former and from 30

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to 20

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at the latter.