The bar chart provides information about the proportion of Australian students, by gender, enrolled in part-time and full-time education in 2006. Overall, part-time education was common among both men and women across most age groups except for the oldest group, where full-time study was more common. Notably, the difference between part-time and full-time education occurred in the 20-24 age category for both genders.
Among males, the 20-24 age group had the highest participation in part-time education with 40%, which was more than three times the proportion of full-time (12%). A similar trend appeared among 15-19 years old, though the gap was smaller, with 12% studying part-time and only 6% studied full-time. In age group 25-29 this figure declined in both categories, reaching 8% in part-time and 6% for full-time. Moreover, after the age of 30, people started to study in full-time with 10% and 8% of them choose part-time education.
Turning to females, this pattern closely mirrored that of males. The largest discrepancy was again in the 20-24 group, where 42% of them studied part-time and only 13% of them studied full-time. However, female students aged 15-19 were more likely than males to study part-time (17%), even though their full-time education was lower at 7%. Additionally, female students aged 25-29 showed no difference with 8% in both part-time and full-time education. Also, among women aged 30 and above, full time education was more popular with 12% compared to part-time where it was only at 6%.