Task 1 TEST 3

The line graph below gives information about the rates of unemployment between 1991 and 2005 in three different countries in Europe. The table shows the percentage of men and women in the workforce in these three countries.

Country	Men	Women
Germany	76.5%	54.4%
Spain	66.2%	32.3%
Italy	77.1%	37.8%

The first line graph illustrates the unemployment levels in three different nations including Spain, Germany, and Italy over a 15- year period. The accompanying table demonstrates the proportion of female and male workers in the same countries during the survey.

In general, the initial impression from the chart is that the level of joblessness witnessed some fluctuations at varying degrees for all three nations. To be more specified, a downward trend was observed for the number of the Spanish and Italy unemployed. However, this was not the case for people in Germany. Additionally, it is apparent that jobless men accounted for a higher percentage than their opposite counterparts among the three nations.

As can be seen from the first picture, in 1991, with approximately 13% of people who currently had no job, Spain took the lead in terms of unemployment level, twofold higher than the figure in Italy. The number of the former surged at its highest point at 18% in 1993, continuing to remain unchanged until 1995 prior to dipping greatly to 8% in 2005. By contrast, there was a major rise of 4% in the unemployment rates for the latter, peaking at the same level as Spain in 1999, followed by a marginal decrease and its figure experienced a static phase at its initial level. The most significant change was the number of jobless German, despite starting from the lowest point among the three countries with 4%, the unemployment rates in Germany saw a continuous increase with ups and downs, overtaking the two remaining nations to be an area with the highest level of joblessness in 2005.

It is apparent from the second picture that male Italian accounted for the largest number at over 77%, followed by men in Germany and Spain respectively. On the other hand, the number of women who were jobless in Germany was higher than their Spanish and Italian counterparts.