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
of employees in five different kinds of jobs in a particular region of Australia between 2001 and 2008.
Change the quantifier
number
Overall
, it can be seen clearly that most of these jobs witnessed an upward trend in their employees, except accounting
and farming. Notably, Change preposition
for accounting
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.Submitted by elsenglish16992 on
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