The bar chart illustrates the share of male and female students of several age categories who studied in Australia for full-time and part-time education in 2006. Overall, part-time education was more popular among all age groups, except for the 30+ group, where full-time education was more common. The most notable difference was in the 20-24 age category for both genders.
Among all the males, the percentage of the 20-24 aged people who studied part-time education was the highest at 40%, whereas that of full-time was more than three times smaller at only 12%. A similar trend appeared among 15-19 age category, where 12% of them studied part-time and 8% of them full-time. Turning to the 25-29 age group, 8% of them studied part-time education, while 6% took full-time. The proportion of individuals who were above 30 was 8% in part-time education, followed closely by full-time education at 10%.
Female students followed almost the same trend as males. The 20-24 age category had the biggest difference in full-time (13%) and part-time (42%) education. The 17% of females who were aged between 15 and 19 enrolled in part-time education, while 7% enrolled full-time. The only group that had a parity was the 25-29 age group, where both study modes were at 8%. The share of older category, 30+ group, who enrolled part-time education was 6%, followed distantly by full-time education at 12%.