The bar charts detail information about the Australian student proportions of different age groups and gender in part-time or full-time education in 2006. Overall, the percentage of people who go to school in the 20-24 year age group was the highest, whereas the opposite was true for the 25-29 age brackets, in both male and female. Furthermore, most students prefer part-time education, except people who are more than 30 years old and female students who are 25-29 years old.
In terms of part-time education, 20-24 year old student percentages of both genders accounted for a lion’s share, which were 40% and 42%. The figure for female students in the 15-19 age group edged slightly out that of male ones, which were 17% and 12%, respectively. The proportion of students in 25-29 age cohorts and male learners who are over 30 years old occupied 8%, while the corresponding data on female students was the smallest, at 6%.
From the full-time education perspective, the student percentages of the 20-24 age brackets and females over 30 years old occupied around 12-13%. For male learners who are more than 30 years old, the proportion was 10%, whereas the remaining data accounted for about 6-8% of total.