The bar chart illustrates the proportion of male and female students in four different age groups who studied at universities in Australia for full-time and part-time education in 2006. Units are measured in percentages.
Overall, part-time education was dominant in all age groups except for those aged 30 and above, where full-time study was more common. The 20-24 age group had the highest participation rates in part-time education for both genders.
In detail, males and females aged 20-24 followed a similar pattern: around 49% and 42% respectively studied part-time, while 12% of each group were enrolled full-time. Among those aged 15-19, 12% of men and 17% of women studied part-time, compared with 8% and 7% who studied full-time, respectively.
With regard to the 25-29 age group, the proportion of part-time study was the same for both genders, at 8%, whereas the rate of full-time education was slightly higher among females (10%) than males (8%). In contrast, among students aged 30 and over, full-time study exceeded part-time for both men and women, by approximately 2% and 6% respectively.