Band 6+: The graph above shows the stock price of four technology companies between 2011 and 2016. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information about the proportion of businesses purchasing items online according to industry in Canada between 2015 in 2019.

Generally speaking, the proportion of businesses involved in e-commerce purchases across the years and sectors varied with the practice being most common in the information and communications industry. In this sector, there was a greater proportion of businesses involved (just over 60% in 2015) than the other sectors with a rise to just under 70% in 2019, including a peak to about 75% in 2018. The proportion of businesses involved in purchases on line in the retail sector followed a similar pattern, increasing from about 35% to about 55% in 2019 with a peak of about 58% in 2018. Just under 25% of construction businesses used online purchasing in 2015 compared to more than a half in 2019, whereas in the wholesale industry the rise was much smaller from just over 40% to about 60%. As regards manufacturing, there was a near 100% increase in the proportion of businesses purchasing online from about 33% in 2015 in comparison with about 58% in 2019.