The bar chart gives information about the average number of school years of adult men and women in Singapore, while the pie charts illustrate the level of the highest educational achievement. Overall, males consistently dominated throughout the period in the former chart, with the widest gap being observed in 2004. It is also clear that university qualification represented the highest proportion and the reverse was true for below secondary. Notably, diploma and professional qualification as well as secondary recorded pretty similar percentages.
Focusing on the bar chart first, in 2000, male’s statistic was 9.2 which was significantly higher than that of females at 8.0. After two years, the figure for men rose slightly by 0.3, while it stayed stable for women. It is worth noting that the widest gap being observed in 2004, males at 9.8 and females at 8.2. Finally, from 2006 to 2010, the gap was pretty similar between dominated men and their women counterparts at 1.5, 1.3, and 1.4, respectively.
Looking at the pie charts, it shows the level of highest educational achievement. In 2000, the university qualification was 21.1%, which was considerably lower than that of below secondary at 23.6%. It is interesting to note that the proportions for secondary as well as diploma and professional qualification were relatively similar with respective figures at 27.7 and 27.6.
When it comes to changes in 2010, with representing the highest proportion at 44.1% the university qualification ranked first place, closely followed by diploma and professional qualification at 37.7%. Notably, secondary and below secondary recorded almost identical shares at 9.6% and 8.6%, respectively.