Band 7+: 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 the quantity of workers in sales, accounting, computing, nursing and farming in an Australian area over a 7-year period, starting from 2001.

Overall, while the number of people who work in sales, computing and nursing saw upward trends, that of accounting and farming witnessed opposite tendencies. It is also remarkable that the amount of salers was the highest when compared to other categories from 2001 to 2008.

With a regard to sales, it registered around 158,000 in 2001 before rising to 165,000 by the end of the period. In 2001, the number of labours in computing surged from 60,000 to 80,000 by 2008, making it the most considerable increase throughout the period shown. A similar pattern was seen in nursing, which increased by approximately 4,000 to 60,000 in 2008.

The quantity of workers in accounting and farming underwent downward trends at a similar pace. They both occupied about 65,000 and 30,000 respectively in 2001, with subsequent decreases to 60,000 and 20,000 over the following 7 years.