Portfolio Task 1

Portfolio Task 1

            These two charts show the share of the Australian and British cinema markets. Also the charts give the cinema attendance in Britain and Australia from 1980 t0 2000.

            The first chart shows the films shown in Britain and Australia by origin in 2000. US films had the highest percentage form both Britain and Australia. However, Britain has a higher percentage than Australia by around 10%. The second highest percentage was for British films. Britain gets more percentage than Australia, which was 20% and for Australia was around 5%; for Australian films Britain doesn't  have any percentage. However, Australia got 11%. Finally for others, Australia gets around 15% but Britain got 2%.

            The second chart shows the cinema attendance in Britain and Australia. In 1980 Britain had 1 million attendances in their cinemas. However, the attendance decreased dramatically in 1984. But it increased dramatically in 1986 by 40 million. From 1986 and 1988 the attendance dropped to 80 million. From 1990 to 2000 the attendance fluctuated until it reached 150 million. In 1980 Australia had 40 million attendances. But it decreased by 20 million in 1982. Then the number increased by around 18 million. From 1984 to 1990 the attendance for Australia stayed steady. Finally in 1990 to 2000 the attendances increased gradually until it reached 90 million.

            In conclusion, Britain had higher attendances than Australia in the second chart from 1980 to 2000.

   The line graph shows unemployment levels in the USA and EEC which include EEC men and women, USA men and women, EEC men and USA men, over 10 years.

    The highest unemployment level was for the USA men and women. The first levels were 5 million in 1972 and it decreased by 1 million in 1973. However, it rose up in 1974 by 1 million. In 1975 the level increased dramatically to 8 million. The next 4 years the levels decreased slightly and then rose to 9 million in the next 2 years. The levels of unemployment for EEC men were low in 1972 and decreased a little bit in 1974. However, it increased slightly in the next 8 years and reached 9 million. For USA men the level of unemployment was also low and fell dawn in 1973 by 1 million and fluctuated in the next 8 years. Finally the lowest levels of unemployment were for EEC men. In 1972 the level was very low which was 2 million. However the level of unemployment decreased to around 1.2 million and then it increased in the next 8 years until it reached 4 million.

    In conclusion, USA men and women had the biggest fluctuation. But the USA men had the most stable levels of unemployment