The table provides information about the proportion of employees who were employed in six different industries in Australia from 1989 to 2009. Overall, the percentage of people who worked in healthcare, construction, education, and tourism fields exhibited an upward trend, whereas the opposite was true for manufacturing and retail sections, while the proportion of people in manufacturing saw the biggest decrease in the following years.
Focusing increases first, the percentage of individuals in the health care section was 9.6% by 2009, it had increased by 11.3%, It experienced the highest growth among all the increases. Starting with 7.6% in 1989, the proportion of the workforce in construction grew insignificantly to 8.3% during 2009. The figures for education and tourism were almost the same, they rose from 6.8% and 5.5% to 7.5% and 7.3% during the following years.
By contrast, the proportion of employees in manufacturing and retail dropped over the years, workforce in manufacturing almost halved from15% to 9.8% with highest decrease. In terms of retailing, the decline was relatively modest. The proportion of workers in this sector decreased from 11.8% to 10.1%, representing the second-largest share compared to the others.