Mining for talent

Visual form

Stacked bar chart with a shared midpoint.

Layout / body structure

The page uses nine vertical bars, one per sector, ordered from least attractive on the left to most attractive on the right. Each bar stacks five response categories around a midpoint so the reader can compare positive and negative interest in the same column.

What is being compared

It compares how respondents ages 15 to 30 in Canada rate their likelihood of working in different sectors, including mining, oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, financial services, arts and culture, high tech, and healthcare.

Measurement system

The measure is percent of respondents in each response bucket, ranging from definitely would through definitely would not.

Visible structure inside the graphic

Each sector bar is segmented into lighter upper bands for definitely would, probably would, and might consider, and darker lower bands for probably would not and definitely would not. The ordering of the sectors creates a clear left-to-right rise from mining at the bottom of the ranking to healthcare at the top.

Main takeaway from the visual

Mining sits at the least attractive end of the ranking because its negative segments dominate the bar, while sectors such as healthcare, high tech, and arts and culture show far larger positive or at least open-to-consider portions.

Key standout values or extremes

Mining shows only 4 percent definitely would and 7 percent probably would, against 28 percent probably would not and 42 percent definitely would not. Healthcare, by contrast, shows 16 percent definitely would and 19 percent probably would, with much smaller negative shares at the bottom of the bar.

Controls / sequence, when applicable

This is a static chart image with no in-chart controls to operate.

Companion media, when applicable

There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart image is the full visual on this page.