The chart illustrates the average number of years spent on school and also highlights the highest educational level achieved by adults from 2000 to 2010 in Singapore. Overall, Adult males had more participation in the field of education over the examined period. Moreover, during this ten year period, people tend to achieve higher educational degrees than the initial years.
From 2000 to 2004, the charts regarding the years male and female adults spent at school increased by a tiny margin of 1 and 0.5 years respectively. Additionally, the statistics concerning female adults didnt witness any eye-catching fluctuations and came at nearly 9 years during the early 2010. The gap between the two genders started to grow and the average number of years spent at school by male adults inclined by a whopping number of 2 years.
In addition, by examining the pie chart, we can see that more than half of the total population dropped out of education before going to highschool. However, this number dropped to nearly 17% during the year 2010. Moreover, while Achieving a diploma was a satisfying milestone for 32.13% of the individuals during the year 2000, this number decreased by over 13% during the year 2010. The biggest incline can be seen in the proportion of people who successfully finished their diploma due to the rise of nearly 24% throughout the examined time period. Even though, Masters degree was considered as an unachievable goal for many people during the year 2000 and only 7.5% of the total population achieved it, more people became interested in achieving their master qualification during the year 2010 with a rise of nearly 23% .