The bar chart indicates the average levels of involvement in education while the pie chart depicts the various educational levels attained by adults.

The bar chart indicates the average levels of involvement in education while the pie chart depicts the various educational levels attained by adults. It can be seen that there has been an increasing number of years, both among men and women, in the education system during the period indicated. In addition, in 2000, the number of adults who graduated high school was the largest among the other qualifications while in 2010, the highest figure was recorded in university qualification. According to the bar chart, in 2000, Singaporean women consumed less time in school in comparison with their male counterparts with 8 years and 9 years respectively. In addition, the average years men spent in school have steadily increased from approximately 9 to almost 12 years over a ten-year period. Another noteworthy point is that the average school years of women remained unchanged during the first three-year period before rising marginally to about 9. 5 years in 2010. Looking at the pie chart in more detail, in 2000, highschool qualifications started at 32, 12%, ranking the first among three categories then decreased sharply by 12, 57% in 2010. Whereas, both primary and secondary qualifications made up for approximately a quarter in the total of educational levels attained by adults, consequently declined significantly to 2, 1% and 15, 2% respectively. By contrast, the figure for university and master qualifications were the lowest with under 10% each but then rose noticeably to 32, 93% and 30, 31% in 2010.