Band 6+: The charts below show the qualifications of staff in an advertising company in 1990 and 2010. Provide an overview of the information by identifying and describing the key details, and include comparisons where appropriate.

The pie charts illustrate the proportion of employees’ degrees in an advertising agency between 1990 and 2010.

Overall, while there was an increase in Ph.D-Science, Master-Art and Ph.D-Art qualifications, the opposite was true for First Degree – Science and Art. Additionally, the percentage of staff mastering Science remained unchanged over the period.

As for science degrees, the figure for Ph.D staff accounted for 12% in 1990, followed by a considerable increase to precisely 30% after 20 years. By contrast, the proportion of employees obtaining a first degree level took up one fifth, declining to nearly a half in 2010, at only 11%, while that of mastering qualifications experienced a leveling off at 29%.

In 1990, the percentage of employees mastering art professions constituted 21%, after which it went up slightly by 2% in the next 20 years. Similarly, the figure for Ph.D Art qualifications started at 2%, growing moderately to 5%. Meanwhile, the data of staff who got a first degree in art decreased significantly from 15% to a very little rate, at 2%.