The table illustrates how many domestic and international students in Australian colleges engaged in research, while the pie chart reveals the proportion of local and non-local people in the research in the years 2001 and 2010.
Overall, it is noticeable that international individuals tended to participate in research in 2010, which overtook compared to those in 2001 . Besides, there was a significant disparity in the percentage of foreign students involved in the study.
As can be seen from the table, the number of local learners took the lead in both two years, which was nearly 33,700 in 2001 and then went up to about 39,500 in 2010. There was a three-fold climb in the international attendants, which was from about 5,000 initially to about 14,600 attendants. As a result, the total of domestic participants, being nearly 39,000 people, was 20,000 people higher than that of foreign students.
When it came to the percentage of foreign engagement in the survey, the figure for local students accounted for more than two-thirds of the total, in which the proportion of males was predominant compared to that of females. In the year 2001, the proportion of regional men was equal to that of women, which was nearly 44%; while there were downward trends in two figures, which were 38% and 35% respectively. Conversely, the foreign involvement made up a modest percentage at just 13% in 2001 and then increased 27% in 2010. In terms of genders, the year 2010 witnessed an increase by nearly 10% in the proportion of female engagement, which stood at only 4% in 2001, similarly, by just 3% in the figure for men, starting at 9% in 2001.