The chart demonstrates the level of people employed in five types ( sales,accounting,computing,nursing,farming) of job in one region of Australia within the period from 2001 and 2008.
Overall, the number of people employed in all five types of work increased between 2001 and 2008, although the rate of growth varied across the sectors. The sales sector had the highest number of employees, while nursing and computing showed smaller increases.
Focusing on the increases first, the sales sector’s workforce stood at a whopping 155,000 employees in 2001, a figure that in 2008 increased to a chart high of 168,000. Next on the list, computer specialists accounted for 60,000 workers in the former year, which had gone up the most sharply to 80,000 seven years later. Last rising trajectory was seen in nursing jobs; in 2001, there were 58,000 people doing such jobs, and in 2008, this number climbed at the slowest pace to 60,000.