reading unemployment rate from the graph
The line graph demonstrates the unemployment circumstance in rural and urban regions over the course of 4 months in 2012.
Looking at the graph, It is immediately obvious that the proportion of the unemployed in urban areas experienced an upward trend over the period given, while the opposite is true for rural areas. The rate in urban regions peaked by the second and third quarters.
At the start of the period, the countryside registered the highest figure for joblessness, beginning by 6.5%, whereas that rate in cities was lower, at about 2%. In the first half of 2012, there was a double increase in the proportion of jobless people in urban regions from 2% to 4%. On the contrary, an opposite trend was witnessed in rural areas, which fell steadily over the first six months and immediately hit the lowest point of 4.5% after that.
In the third quarter, the urban unemployment rate declined steeply to 2% before going up gradually. It continued to rise and reached the peak at nearly 5% at the end of the period. On the other hand, the number of jobless people in the countryside reached a plateau and finished at a fairly high point of 5%, slightly above cities.