The provided table compares three different brackets (18-25, 25-40, and 40-65), in terms of ten different employment sectors in 2008.
In general, it is clear that retail was the most popular category among junior people, whereas it was manufacturing for seniors. It is also worth noticing that the lowest percentage belonged to accountancy in all age groups.
Focusing on 18-25-year-old individuals first, retail was the leading category, standing at 23%, which was closely followed by other at 21%. Furthermore, Manufacturing and health recorded identical figures, each accounting for 12%. The remaining sectors recorded figures below 10%, with the lowest in accountancy, which made up only 3%.
As for the middle-aged group people, both manufacturing and health comprised 15% of employees, which was 3% lower than “other”, and 3% higher than local government. The shares for agriculture, retail and catering contained about 7%. Finally, law was twice as high as accountancy, whose figure stood at 2%.
Regarding the 40-65 age range, manufacturing constituted 23% of workers, being the dominant sector and following by local government, which was 5% lower. The percentages of health and education were similar, at 12%. The other categories closed the list with lowest percentages of workers, ranging between 3% and 9%.