The table depicts the data of the number of individuals across different age groups employed in selected sectors (hotel & catering, building, technology, and education) for the years 1998 and 2006. Overall, most sectors saw a rise in employment, while other experienced considerable declines.
In the hotel and catering sector, there was a notable increase in the total of employees, growing from 17,663 in 1998 to 19,034, from 4,300 in 1998 to 7,544, highlighting 26-35 age and 56 – 65 age, respectively. Moreover, the middle-age groups, from age 36 to 45, increase slightly from 15,229 in 1998 to 21,303 in 2006. On the other hand, the building sector shows a substantial decline in employment, particularly in younger groups, dropping from 112,565 in 1998 aged 18 to 86,430 in 2006 aged 25.
The education area experienced a notable decline in employment among younger age and elderly age groups, reducing from 6,388 in 1998 to 4,987 in 2006 ( aged 18-25) and from 43, 647 in 1998 to 23,000 in 2016. In contrast, in the technology sector, the number of employment significantly increased over all age groups, concerning a substantial increase, among aged 18 – 25 and 56 – 65, from 5,497 to 187,600 and from 800 to 19,532 between 1998 and 2006, respectively.