Portfolio Task 1

The first bar chart shows the films shown in Britain and Australia by origin in 2000. In the second, the graph shows the cinema attendance in Britain and Australia 1980 to 2000.

The US films shows the highest number shown in Britain and Australia which is 75% in UK and approximately 68% in Australia. The second largest % is British films which is only 20% shown in UK and just under 5 % in Australia. The films which were made in Australia only show in Australia which record only 11%. The attendance in Britain cinemas in 1980 was 100M but from 1982 till 1986 it increased till it reached nearly 120M people then it started to decline to 80 millions. In the next 12 years the attendance jumped up till it reached 150M people in 2000. In Australia the attendance was only 40M people in 1980 but in the next two years it fell to 20M people. In the next 18 years the attendances started increasing and stood at 90M people in 2000.

To sum up, Britain had bigger cinema attendances than Australia.

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Unemployment Levels

The line graph shows the USA and EEC unemployment levels from 1972 till 1981 for men and women, it  also shows for men only in the EEC and USA.

The number of the unemployment men and women in the USA in 1973 was nearly 4.5 million. In 1975 the figure was just under 8 million in the USA. The line for USA man and EEC man are quite slimmer because there was a drop in 1973 and followed by an increase in both levels. In 1978 the number for the European Economic Community stood at just over six million. But in the next year the figure of unemployed people remained at about six and a quarter million. In the next two years the figure went up to nearly nine million.

                                       

To sum up, the unemployment levels increased for both the European Economic Community and the USA over the nine years.

Account Words: 151