The pie charts illustrate the percentage of people arrested by gender from 1990 to 1994, while the bar chart compares the proportion of the six most recent reasons for arrest.
Overall, more men were arrested than women; moreover, public drinking was the main reason for arrest for both genders, while no answer was the least common reason.
As can be seen from the table, the proportions of public drinking for females and males ranked first, with nearly 38% and just over 30%, respectively. They were followed by the data for drink driving for males and assault for females, at approximately 27% and around 18%, respectively. The proportions of theft and breach of order arrests among females have a quite similar pattern, at around 12% for both. As distinct from those high figures, the data for no answer made up nearly 7% of arrests among females and just below 5% among males.
Regarding the two pie charts, the proportion of arrested males accounted for 32%, compared to 9% for arrested females. By contrast, the figure for females not arrested was higher than the figure for males by 23 percentage points.
