The graph highlights data about the proportion of people who were employed in 3 sectors of the UK economy between 2000 and 2010.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that there were significant upward trends in the employment figures of both self-employed and public sector, while the rates of private sector witnessed a significant downward trend over the period in question. In addition, the highest percentage of people with jobs during the researched period was for the public sector in 2010.Looking at the details, as regards public and private sectors, the employment rates stood at 38 and 48% until 2003, they became equal . Then the proportion of employees in the public sector rose gradually in the next two years before dipping by 5% in 2006, following by a slight increase which reached 51% at the end. By contrast, the private sector followed an opposite trend where it fell steadily from 2003 to 2010, ended at around 20%.
During the period shown, the figure for the self-employed sector experienced a marginal fluctuation. At the beginning of the period, it went up to 20% and then declined slightly in 2003 and 2004. At this point, there was a steady rise of employment rate, which led to the figure reaching 30% in 2010.
