The bar charts compare the number of students in two distinct groups, part-time and full-time education, for both genders among four age groups of Australian learners in 2006.
An overarching perspective reveals that both male and female students also observed a noticeable similarity in the proportion of Australian learners, with the highest number of participants falling within the 20 to 24-year-old age group and the lowest in the 25 to 28-year-old age group. In addition, both 20-to-24-year-old male and female students
A closer look at the male chart shows that younger learners (15-24) made up the largest shares. The 20-24 group recorded a dominant 40% in part-time study, compared with only 12% full-time. Meanwhile, those aged 15-19 followed with 12% for part-time and 8% for full-time study. Although the 25-29 and 30+ groups had identical proportions of part-time participants, the oldest cohort experienced a higher full-time rate (10%), which was 4% above that of the 25-29 group.
Shifting attention to the female chart, this gender witnessed the same trend in 20-to 24-year-old students, which was just 2% and 1% higher than that of males in part-time and full-time learning, respectively. The youngest age group saw a disparity between the two learning methods similar to the males’ data, but at the higher general level, which was 17% of part-time students and 7% of full-time attendants. While the students from 25 to 29 years old saw an identical trajectory, enrollees who were more than 30 years old comprised 6% of part-time learners and 12% of full-time students.