The bar chart compares the number of workers across five different employment sectors in a particular region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Overall, sales, computing, and nursing followed an upward trend in the number of employees, albeit to varying degrees, whereas accounting and farming showed an opposite pattern. It is also clear that sales employed by far the largest number of people in both years, while the reverse was true of farming, with the remaining sectors showing relatively comparable figures.
Sales and farming exhibited sharply contrasting trends. For example, the number of people working in sales stood at roughly 150,000 in 2001, while those in farming were just above 20,000. Over the ensuing seven years, the number of people employed in sales increased, reaching a chart high of approximately 170,000, thereby widening the gap with the other sectors by a significant margin. Farming, by contrast, employed even fewer people, with its figure dipping to a chart low of less than 20,000.
Unlike the aforementioned sectors, employment levels in accounting, computing, and nursing were relatively comparable. In 2001, accounting had around 70,000 workers, while computing and nursing recorded broadly similar figures of approximately 58,000 and 55,000, respectively. However, by 2008, computing had shown more noticeable growth and taken the lead in this group with almost 80,000 workers. Although accounting and nursing followed opposing trajectories, they ended the period at broadly similar levels, with their numbers hovering around just over 60,000.