The European Central Bank (ECB) published a reliable and complete statistics of annual structural financial indicators for the banking sector in the European Union (EU). It comprises statistics on the number of employees of domestic credit institutions. The 2014 data highlighted that bank employees in the region declined by about 74,000. The following table gives a partial list of the number of employees of domestic credit institutions in certain countries (Table 1, EU Structural Financial Indicators, 2014):

a. Construct a bar chart on the number of employees of domestic credit institutions in 2012.
b. Construct a bar chart on the number of employees of domestic credit institutions in 2013.
c. Construct a bar chart to compare the number of employees of domestic credit institutions in 2012 to those in 2013.

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Country Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Number of Employees of Domestic Credit Institutions 2012 60,068 33,527 40,147 44,900 659,100 2013 58,237 32,756 39,742 36,367 655,600 SOURCE: Based on data from European Central Bank website, "EU Structural Financial Indicators: 2014," SSI Table, July 1, 2015