The given charts give information about the number of students at university in the UK from 1991 to 2001, government spending and the types of family economic background they came from in 1991.

The pie chart illustrates the proportion of pupils attending a university in the UK categorized by their income in 1991,

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the bar chart and line graph compare the sum of those who studied there and the expenditure of the government on each of them between 1991 and 2001 respectively.

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a majority of students came from families with middle income,

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the opposite was true for those with low income.

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, the total of learners witnessed an upward tendency throughout the years. As can be seen, attendees having middle wages were recorded to be at the top of the list with 62%, followed by nearly a third of those coming from wealthy backgrounds.

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, there was just a minority of learners living in households with low salaries, which stood at only 8%.

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, regarding the number of students, it was over 1 million in 1991. Over the next 6 years, the figure for that rose gradually to more than 1.5 million before reaching a peak of 2 million in 1991,

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it remained the same until 2001.

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, the government reduce the money spent on each individual from 6500 pounds in 1991 to under 5000 pounds in the year 2001.