The chart provides information about the number of employees in five different careers on a certain region of Australia over two separated years, 2001 and 2008.
Overall, in both surveyed years, the quantity of individuals working as salesmen consistently outnumbered those in other careers, while smallest figures were observed in farming sector. Furthermore, there was an increase in three categories – sales, computing and nursing – while the remaining two, accounting and farming experienced a slight decrease.
In 2001, sales had the largest number of employees among the five surveyed employment categories, with approximately 160,000 people. This was followed by accounting, computing and nursing, with figures at approximately 62,000, 60,000 and 58,000 respectively. Meanwhile, the trivial share of workers was in farming, with just above 20,000 people.
By 2008, the number of salesmen had increased slightly by nearly 30,000 people to 162,000, maintaining its dominant position. Similarly, the number of individuals working in computing and nursing rose to 80,000 and 60,000, respectively. Conversely, a downward trend was observed in the accounting and farming sectors, with number of employees in the former being three times higher than in the latter.