The bar charts compare the importance of five major factors in choosing careers in two different age groups from a Greek survey in 2003.
Overall, it is clear that parents and money are the two most important factors in both age groups, while friends constantly recorded the lowest proportion. Another key feature is that while the percentage of people choosing their jobs based on money and role models decreased in the older age group (40-50), other factors witnessed a decent increase.
Regarding the age group between 20 and 35, money featured the highest figure of 27%, followed by parents with 23%, which are the two most dominant categories. In comparision, only 15% and 9% choosing their careers due to role models and teachers (ranking third and fourth) respectively. Meanwhile, friends was the least favoured reason with only 7%.
Turning to the second bar chart, the proportion of parents underwent an upward trend, reaching a peak of 30%, whereas that figure of money decreased significantly to just 19%. Similarly, role models also edged down by a small margin of 4%. In contrast, both teachers’ and friends’ proportions rose remarkably from 9% to 14% (surpassed role models) and 7% to 10%.
