The pie chart illustrates the percentage between children learning and not learning a musical instrument, whereas the below chart demonstrates the proportion of musical instrument options of children under 18 from 1996 to 2006.
Overall, there was a significant increase in the percentage of children not learning a musical instrument, whereas most instruments displayed an decline in the proportion with the exception of electric guitar and keyboard. Notably, students learning more than one instrument remained unchanged over the period.
In 1996, nearly a half of children did not learn a musical instrument, around 44%. This figure witnessed a substantial increase in the next decade, reaching by 76%, whereas the proportion of the counterpart accounted for a minor figure, at 24%.
For acoustic guitar, over 5% children chose to learn this instrument, whereas over 3% of them learned other musical instruments, these figure decreased by five and two times in the next decade. Similarly, considerably higher compared to acoustic guitar, violin and piano decreased minimally over the period, from 14% and 30% to 10% and 27% each. Conversely, electric guitar and keyboard showed an increase over the period. Starting at 14% and 23% respectively, these types of musical instrument increased by 3% and 8% in the subsequent decade. Unlike the mentioned muscial instruments, the children prefered to learning more than one instrument remained unchanged over period, at 12%.