The bar chart compares how many people were employed in five different types of work-sales, accounting, computing, nursing, and farming- in one part of Australia in the years 2001 and 2008. Units are measured in numbers.
Overall, while the number of employed people in most working sectors increased, the reverse was true for accounting and especially farming, as they exhibited a falling trend. Of a particular note is the sales sector, making up by far the highest number of employers in both years.
Focusing on the increases first, sales accounted for the largest number of employers in the given years. In 2001, the sales had well over 150.000 labors, a figure that then grew significantly, reaching a whopping 160.000 in 2008, the highest figure in the chart. Followed distantly behind were computing and nursing sectors, with their respective numbers of employers rising to a staggering 80.000 and around 60.000, up from over 50.000 and 45.000, with the former observing a bigger change.
By contrast, the other sectors-accounting and farming- bucked the foregoing trend. In 2001, accounting had approximately 65.000 number of employers, but the figure showed a downward trend to 55.000 employers in the final year. In terms of farming, farming was not an optimal type of work, as it had the fewest employers in Australlia. Initially, it comprised over 20.000 people, however, witnessed a significant decrease to a low of around 10.000 employers.