While the bar chart provides a breakdown of the average periods of two genders attending educational institutions, the pie chart indicates the distribution of the educational qualifications of adults between 2000 and 2010 in Singapore. Overall, the figures for men and women both witnessed overall rises, with a higher increase of that for male. Additionally, the proportions of Singaporeans possessing a master degree, a university qualification and secondary school qualification increased significantly, as opposed to a drop of those with a high school qualification and a primary school qualification.
Regarding the average years Singaporeans allocating at school, males tended to study longer than females, with about 9 and 8 years spent respectively. After that, the average periods of both genders experienced a rise to approximately 10,5 and roughly above 9 years during the next 6 years. In 2010, men was recorded to spend around 11,5 years studying, which was remarkably larger than about 9,5 years of women.
With reference to educational levels, Singaporeans who received a master and university qualification constituted for the smallest percentages in 2000, in turn at 7.5% and 8.3%, compared to 32.13% of those having a high school qualification. Subsequently, in 2010, despite a decline in the latter figure to 19.55%, the proportions of those with a master and university qualification grew to 30.31% and 32.93% respectively. Conversely, 25.77% of people owning a primary school qualification in 2000 witnessed a disappearance in 2010, whereas 26.3% of those with a secondary school one in 2000 decreased to 15.2% in 2010.