Band 5+: The graph below shows the percentage of self-employed workers of the total workforce in five countries in 1998 and 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart depicts the proportion of self employees of the entire workers in five different nations between 1998 and 2008.

Overall, while workers in Greece and Turkey tended to control their business for themselves, the three remaining countries was seen an opposite trend during 10 years.

In 1998, Turkey topped the list of self employments, at a hefty 55 percent. This rate is followed by Greek workers, at over 40 percent. The percentage of categories called Russian republic was stood at 5 percent. Self-workers living in Slovakia is 1 percent higher than this figure. Czech Republic had 11 percent of self-employments compared to the whole.

In the next 10 years, merely below 40 percent of Turk workers were self- workers. Greece followed this trend by 35 percent. Self-workers living in Slovakia and Czech Republic both increased in 2008 and had the same percentage, at approximately 12 percent. Russia still had the lowest ratio of self employees, at 6 percent.