Band 8+: The chart below give the number of people employed in five types of work in a certain region in Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart illustrates how many people were employed in five different industries, with the data being recorded in 2001 and 2008.

Overall, this 7-year period registered an increasing number of employees working as salespeople, computing staff, and nurses, contrasting with accountants and farmers whose statistics showed a downward trend. Additionally, sales were the job that had the highest figures in both years.

In 2001, sales took the lead with more than 15,000 employees, which was nearly eight times higher than the figure in farming. Over the course of 7 years, the former experienced a moderate growth by 1,000 whereas the latter decreased slightly to about 19,000.

In the starting year, the number of employees in computing and nursing were equal, at just over 5,000. In the next 7 years, there was a noticeable increase in both these figures, to 6,500 and 5,900 respectively.

In the accounting industry, there was a minimal decline throughout the period. Standing at 6,000 in the first year, it marginally fell off to about 5,900 in the last year.