Band 6+: The chart below shows the number of people working in 4 sports sectors in an Australian town in 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives information about how the number of people’s jobs in sports aspect varied across 4 roles in an Australian town in the year 2015.

Overall, although unpaid workers typically had higher participation rates than their paid counterparts, their patterns were different. It is seen that paid and unpaid workers who worked as coaches and referees had the highest and lowest proportion among the 4 types of roles, respectively.

With reference to the proportion of volunteers’ roles, it is evident that it almost surpassed paid workers in all roles, except for referees which the unpaid had 5 volunteers lower than their paid counterparts. While the participation of people who volunteered to become coaches took the lead with about 75 volunteers, those who were referees held the bottom position with 30 volunteers, which was also the lowest proportion regardless of the type of worker. Volunteers who worked in other sectors and as managers took second and third place with 55 and 45 volunteers, respectively.

The participation of the paid in all kinds of sectors was mostly lower than that of the unpaid. Paid workers who worked in other industries and as coaches were in joint first place with 45 workers, which has the same pattern with volunteers who were managers. The paid who were referees and managers tied at the bottom with 35 workers, which had 5 higher workers than the lowest proportion of volunteers in the referee’s sector.