Pie Chart
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in
2003 and 2013.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Sample answer
The two pie charts compare the percentages of online sales across different retail sectors in
New Zealand in the years 2003 and 2013.
For three of the sectors, it is evident that over this time frame there was significant change
in their proportion of online transactions. At 36%, it can be seen that the travel sector
accounted for the majority of online sales in 2003, but this percentage had dropped to 29%
, by 2013. Across the same ten-year period, as an increasing number of people chose to
purchase films and music online, we can see that transactions went from just 21% to 33%,
making it the retail sector with the highest overall share of the online market.
In 2003, the clothing industry boasted an impressive 24% of total online sales in New
Zealand. However, by 2013, the figure had fallen considerably to 16%. Interestingly, online
sales of books eventually overtook sales of clothes, although books still represented only
22% of the market.
(162 words)
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The pie charts below show the online shopping sales for retail sectors in New Zealand in
2003 and 2013.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Sample answer
The two pie charts compare the percentages of online sales across different retail sectors in
New Zealand in the years 2003 and 2013.
For three of the sectors, it is evident that over this time frame there was significant change
in their proportion of online transactions. At 36%, it can be seen that the travel sector
accounted for the majority of online sales in 2003, but this percentage had dropped to 29%
, by 2013. Across the same ten-year period, as an increasing number of people chose to
purchase films and music online, we can see that transactions went from just 21% to 33%,
making it the retail sector with the highest overall share of the online market.
In 2003, the clothing industry boasted an impressive 24% of total online sales in New
Zealand. However, by 2013, the figure had fallen considerably to 16%. Interestingly, online
sales of books eventually overtook sales of clothes, although books still represented only
22% of the market.
(162 words)
