Band 5+: Writing Task 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the percentage of the Australian workforce in five industries between 1962 and 2012.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The graph represents the proportion of the Australian employee’s in five different sectors from 1962 to 2012.

Overall, the ratio of employees in service sectors has signigficantly increased through the period and reach almost the 80% in end of period. In Contrast, the workforce of manfacturing and Agriculture had fallen sharply after 1990. Meanwhile, In remaining listed sectors had stable employees ratio through the period.

In 1970, the percentage of employees had rose from 50% in 1970 to almost 80% in 2010. Conversely, Manufacturing industry employees had recorded declined from almost 20% in 1970 to 10% in end of period. However, In mining and Construction area , there was slight changes in number of employees.

For Agriculture sectors, their workfoce proportion has dropped from 10% in 1970 to approximately 5% in 2010.