The provided table illustrates six types of departments that were distributed to students of an Australian university in 2009.
Overall, it is clear that most of the females chose the humanities and education, while the proportions of students whose first language is not the English language and who were born outisde Australia are considerably lower. Meanwhile, the proportions of people who were born far from Australia are nearly equal in the physics, IT and the engineering sector.
In terms of the humanities, the education and the science deparments, nearly a three quater of students were females and chose the humanities, followed by the education sector accounting for 68%. While students whose first language is not English in the humanities and the edcuation fields comprised 12% and 16% respectively, people who were born outside Australia accounted for total of 20%. The percentages in the science sector, however, vary sigificantly with a half of students and 45% of students consisting of females and whose first language is not the English language respectively. Additionally, nearly a third of students in the science sector were born outside the city.
As regards the remaining departments, the proportions of females and the people who were born outside Australia were identical at 56%, while 38% of the students’ first language was not the English language. Of note, there was a 7 percentage points difference in the proportions of immigrants and students whose first language was not English in the engineering and IT sectors, whereas 17% of females opted for the latter and 15% of them chose the former.