Band 6+: 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 given bar chart illustrates the quantity of people worked in five different types of work on one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008.

Overall, it is evident that the number of people worked as accountants and farmers followed a downward trend, while the opposite was true for thevfigures for sales, computing and nursing. In addition, the figure for sales was the largest among five types of work during the period mentioned.

In 2001, the number of those who worked as salespeople was the largest among five types of work, at nearly 160,000 people. Additionally, the figure for accounting, computing and nursing really the same as each other, at roughly 60,000 people. Furthermore, the figure for farming was the lowest of total of five works, at 30,000 people.

After seven years, the figure for sales rose slightly to over 160,000 people and still remained as the largest. Moreover, a moderate growth to 80,000 people was witnessed in the figure for computing in 2008, which was a half of the figure for sales. Furthermore, the figure for accounting was exactly the same as the figure for nursing in 2008, at approximately 60,000 people. Additionally, the period from 2001 to 2008 saw slight decline to exactly 20,000 people in the figure for farming, which still remained as the lowest.