The charts below show the percentage of people working in different sectors in town A and

town B in 1960, 2010.

The four bar charts demonstrate the proportion of the distribution of employment in manufacturing, sales
and services sectors in the years 1960 and 2010.

It is apparently evident that the percentage of people in town A working sales-related jobs experienced
the most dramatic upturn, as it overtook other sectors to become the largest over a period of 50 years.
Furthermore, manufacturing was the most significant sector in town B, as it employed the most of the
workers of the town the entire time.

Regarding town A, manufacturing made up 41% of the workforce compared to 30 % in sales and only 29%
in services at the beginning of the period. The percentage of sales employees saw a drastic growth to 64%
in 2010, however, the figures for manufacturing and services declined noticeably, by 21% and 14%
respectively.

Moving on to town B, manufacturing attracted the largest percentage of workers in both two years (70%
and 53% in turn) despite a remarkable fell by 17%. By contrast, marginal growth was recorded in the
figures for employees working in sales and services sector, with increases of 2% and 5% respectively.