BAND 7.0 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: ANALYZING REASONS FOR MIGRATION TO CAPITAL CITY THROUGH A LINE CHART

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The line chart below shows the results of a survey giving the reasons why people moved to the capital city of a particular country.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Essay Sample

The line chart displays what reasons most caused the people of a particular country had migrated to its capital city over a period of 15 years, based on a survey.
It is clear that employment was the most important goal of migration over the period shown. Also migration to the capital, overall, had an upward trend by any reason.
In 2000, employment was the main reason for individuals to leave their hometown, migrating around 60000 people. Study purpose was in the second stage with about 25000 people, and advanture and family/friend were the next aims for migration with approximately same amount of 10000 people.
The number of those who went to the capital for working rose dramatically to a peak of roughly 92000 people, between 2000 and 2010, then it fell slightly to about 87000 people in 2015. Students faced the most increase range in these years and they reached to working migrants in 2015. Adventurers' increase had a constant slope for whole the 15-year period and saw a small rise to approximately 15000 people, while those who went to see their family or friend were about 23000 in 2015.