Bar chart — Occupations in Ashby and in the UK as a whole, 2008
📄 Bài mẫu band 8–9
| Introduction | Paraphrase: tỉ lệ lực lượng lao động theo sáu nhóm nghề ở thị trấn Ashby so với toàn nước Anh, năm 2008. |
| Overview | Overall: lao động Ashby dồn vào việc tay chân và nghề thủ công, còn cả nước nghiêng về bán hàng – dịch vụ và chuyên môn; nhóm hành chính là nơi hai bên gần nhau nhất. Không số liệu. |
| Body 1 | Manual labour 28.8% so với 17.6% (chênh 11.2 điểm); Skilled trades 21.3% so với 10.8% (gần gấp đôi); cộng lại 50.1% ở Ashby so với 28.4% cả nước. |
| Body 2 | Professionals 9.8% so với 18.4% (gần gấp đôi); Sales & service 16.2% so với 22.7% (nhóm lớn nhất cả nước); Managers 11.5% so với 15.6%; Administrative 12.4% so với 14.9% (chênh 2.5 điểm). |
The bar chart sets the occupational profile of Ashby against that of the UK as a whole in 2008, showing what percentage of each workforce was employed in six types of job.
Overall, employment in Ashby was heavily concentrated in manual work and skilled trades, whereas the national workforce was weighted towards sales and service jobs and the professions. Administrative work was the category in which the town most closely resembled the country.
Manual labour was the largest source of jobs in Ashby, accounting for 28.8% of workers, 11.2 percentage points above the national figure of 17.6%. In relative terms the contrast was sharper still in skilled trades, where Ashby's share of 21.3% was almost twice as high as the 10.8% recorded nationally. Together, these two categories employed just over half of the town's workforce (50.1%), compared with 28.4% across the UK.
In the remaining four categories, Ashby lagged behind the country. Professionals were particularly under-represented: they made up only 9.8% of the town's workers, the smallest group there, against 18.4% nationally. Sales and service, the UK's largest category at 22.7%, employed 16.2% in Ashby, and managers stood at 11.5% as opposed to 15.6%. The narrowest gap was in administrative work, at 12.4% and 14.9% respectively.
| heavily concentrated in | tập trung dày đặc vào |
| was weighted towards | nghiêng về, dồn nhiều hơn vào |
| the national figure | con số của cả nước |
| twice as high as | cao gấp đôi so với |
| lagged behind | tụt lại phía sau |
| under-represented | có tỉ lệ thấp hơn mức chung |
| The narrowest gap | khoảng cách hẹp nhất |