The vertical bar chart provides data regarding the number of years spent, on average, at school, while the pie charts illustrates the highest education level of youths, within a decade, between 2000 and 2010, in Singapore. Overall, the figures for the adult males saw considerably higher numbers compared to their female counterparts, regardless of the years. In addition, there was a consistent growth in the number of years spent by adult males, whereas a period of stability, a slight increase and a noticeable decline were witnessed in adult females’ spending. Furthermore, in terms of the highest education level of adults, a dramatic decline was experienced in master qualification, secondary school qualification and high school qualification, with the first one seeing a noticeable change, however, the reverse is true for the remaining categories.
Regarding to the bar chart, men showed a consistent participation at school, while the figures for women saw marginal changes. Noticeably, there was a gradual rise in the average number of years spent by men at school, from about 9 years in 2000 to just below 12 years in the final year. In contrast, women spent the same number of years in the initial two years, at 8 years, but the figure started to increase slightly, at just over 8 years in 2004, and then declined negligibly before increasing its peak of a staggering 9 years in 2010.
In terms of pie charts, the highest learning level of adults exhibited as major changes. Focusing on the increases first, the figures for master, secondary school and high-school qualification increased dramatically, from 25.77%, 26.3% and 32.15% in 2000 to 2.1%, 15.2% and 19.55% in the last year, respectively. By contrast, there was a significantly noticeable decline for university and primary school qualification, with accounting for the respective figures of 7.5% and 8.3% in 2000, 30.31% and 32.93% in 2010.