The bar chart illustrates the workforce distrubition across five different employment sectors in a particular region of Australia in 2001 and 2008.
Overall, Sales remained by far the most dominant field of employment throughout the given period. Additionally, while the workforce expanded in Sales, Computing, and Nursing, both Accounting and Farming experienced a slight declin in worker numbers.
Looking at the figures in detail, Sales was the largest employer by a substantional margin, engaging roughly 150,000 individuals in 2001. By 2008, this number had increased further to nearly 165,000. Computing and Nursing also saw upward trends over the seven-year timeframe. The number of people working in Computing rose significantly from approximately 57,000 to around 75,000, overtaking Accounting to become the second most popular sector in 2008. Similarly, Nursing experienced moderate growth, climbing from roughly 53,000 to 64,000 workers.
In contrast, employment in the remaining two sectors contracted. Accounting initally held the second-highest workforce in 2001 with nearly 68,000 workers, but this figure dropped slightly to around 63,000 by 2008. Meanwhile, Farming consistently recorded the lowest employment numbers, failing from approximately 23,000 in 2001 to under 20,000 by the end of the period
