The chart compares the number of employed people in five specific jobs (Sales, Accounting, Computing, nursing, Farming) in an unknown area of Australia in 2001 and 2008.
Overall, while the employment in sales, computing, and nursing saw increases of varying rates compared to the first given year, the reverse is true for accounting and farming, which experienced decreases.
The amount of workers at sales started at 150,000 in 2001, a figure that then increased to 170,000 in 2008. Similarly, the computing industry experienced a noticeable rise from 60,000 to 80,000 over the same time frame. A slight growth was observed in the number of employees in nursing with 50,000 in 2001, after which it improved to 60,000 in the last given period.
The other two industries, accounting and farming, experienced similar trends over the given period. The number of workers in accounting fell slightly to 60,000 in 2008; the amount of farming workers decreased from first to last given period, reaching just 20,000.