The line graph delineates the unemployment rates grouped in 2 categories in Australia in the year 2012. As can be seen, the curves representing unemployment proportions in rural and urban areas converge to the same value.
Looking at the details, it is evident how, at the beginning of the year, the 2 rates were much different. Infact, the people without a job living in rural areas were the 6% of the total working force in contrast with the data regarding the unemployed people living in the urban areas who were the 2%. According to the diagram, in the first half of 2012 the two trends were opposite but the variation is the same, the blue one was decreasing while the red one was upward. It is evident that both categories had a considerable fluctuation between the second quarter and the first half of the third quarter of the year. After that, the rate of unemployment in rural areas levelled off at 5% while people with a job dropped in urban areas.
Overall, despite the different oscillation of the 2 curves, they both end at 5%.