Describe Bar Chart– Task 1

Thursday, January 12th, 2006 | Author: susheewa

Example

The bar chart shows the number of men and women in continuous education in Britain in three periods. The
data can be separate into two groups, full-time and part-time. Figures are given in thousands of people in
further education. It can be clearly seen in the chart that the proportion of continuous education in part-time
had much higher than the proportion of continuous education in full-time.

As can be seen in the chart, the proportion of full-time education had steadily increased in all periods both
men and women, and the proportion of further education in female had higher than male. The exception to
this was the proportion of male in 1970/1 because the proportion of further education in female were about
70 thousands, but the proportion of further education in male were 100 thousands approximately.
Moreover, the proportion of full-time education in female increased dramatically from 75 thousands in
1970/1 to 200 thousands in 1990/1,and the proportion of full-time education in male rose from 100
thousands in 1970/1 to 200 thousands in 1990/1.

In contrast, the proportion of part-time education in men had fluctuated, but the proportion of part-time
education in female had dramatically increased in all periods. As can be seen in chart, the proportion of
further education drop steadily from 1000 thousands in 1970/1 to 800 thousands approximately in
1980/1,then rose slightly from 800 thousands in 1980/1 to about 850 thousands in 1990/1. In addition, the
proportion of part-time education in male had much higher than the proportion of part-time education in
female. The exception to this was in 1990/1 because the proportion of part-time education in female were
1300 thousands approximately, but the proportion of part-time education in men were 1000 thousands.

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