Band 6+: The bar chart below gives information on the numbers of workers in different occupations who migrated to Australia between 2009 and 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where re/evant. Write at least 150 words.

The given chart illustrates the figure for workers in different occupations who migrated to Australia, in thousands of workers, from 2009 to 2012

Overall, it is clear that the number of accountants witnessed the highest in 4-years while the opposite was true for the number of computer programmers. Additionally, there was a minimal difference between the number of cooks and software engineers with software engineers being notably higher.

When examining the data more closely, the figure for accountant always higher than computer programmers in across a quadrennium, commencing 2009. The level of accountants significantly increased and peaked at 28 in 2010, after which it dramatically declined to around 21, 22 in 2011 and 2012, respectively. In contrast, a total of computer programmers both 2009 and 2011 were the same at 2 then it slightly rose to 5 at the end.

As for the remaining categories, the quantity of cooks slightly fluctuated from 25 to 18 over the period. However, the quantity of computer programmers steadily rose from 19 to 21 between 2009 and 2011 after it sharply dropped to 17 in 2012 but it always higher than the level of cooks all years.