The provided line graph illustrates how the proportion of Australian personnel in five distinct types of employment had changed from 1962 to 2012.
Overall, services workforce significantly outnumbers that of the other four fields. Additionally, services is the only industry that witnesses a rise in employment, whereas cultivation, production, building, and mining show a downward trend in their personnel.
Regarding services industry, there was a remarkable growth in the number of workers. Between 1962 and 1992, employees in this field jumped sharply by 20 percent, from above 50 percent to over 70 percent. Similarly, in the next twenty-year period, this trend seemed to be less markedly, yet the total number of workers were eight-time greater than that of the other four industries, with around 80 percent.
In terms of manual labor, a rapid decrease in workforce was shown. Firstly, 1962 manufacturing industry took the lead with its employees account for 25 percent, which doubled that of agriculture and construction at the same time. In the next thirty years, factories workers and farmers declined by 15 percent and 5 percent respectively, while blue-collar workers remained stable throughout the years. The number of miners dropped to its lowest point with nearly 1 percent in 2002 beforing rising back to approximately 3 percent in 2012, as great as that of agriculture the same year.