Task 1 The chart below shows the number of people employed in five types of work on one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

Task 1

The chart below shows the number of people employed in five types of work on one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.
The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of people who worked in sales, accounting, computing, nursing and farming in a particular
Australia’s
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Australia
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region between 2001 and 2008. Generally
speaking
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it is evident that both the number of people employed in five types of work experienced downward trends over the given period. In both 2001 and 2008, the
amount
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of workers in sales held the top spot, with approximately 170.000
employees
.
This
data in accounting witnessed a dramatic drop of 110.000
employees
,
then
continued its reduction minimally by 5
employees
in computing jobs in 2001.
In addition
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computing and nursing followed closely, each with a share of around 60.000
employees
in 2001.
Lastly
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there was a significant climb of around 28.000
employees
that the fewest number of workers in five types of work. In 2008, it can be seen that there were 162.000
employees
in sales fields,but later the data of accounting
also
experienced a noticeable upturn of 97.000
employees
.At the same time, there was a slight growth of 20.000
employees
in the figure
of
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working
about
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computing, which was followed by a fall to 61.000
employees
in the amount of workers in nursing. In the
last
fields, farming continued to decline considerably by 32.000
employees
in 2008.
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