The charts below give the information about levels of education in Glasgow, a city of Scotland in 2010

The charts below give the information about levels of education in Glasgow, a city of Scotland in 2010
The graph illustrates the percentage of three education levels by age range in Glasgow in 2010.
Overall
, university
degrees
accounted for the biggest part of the groups of people who were from 16 to 75
years
old. Meanwhile, almost all elderly inhabitants in
this
city who were over 75
years
old had no qualifications. The proportion of university
degrees
held by adults who were from 24 to 35
years
old far exceeded that of the
school
certificate
and no qualifications, with respective numbers being 76%, 15% and 9%. A similar pattern can be seen in the group of residents who were from 50 to 75
years
old, in which half of them obtained a college diploma
whereas
20% acquired a
school
certificate
and 9% did not get any
degrees
. The figures for the groups of adolescents (from 16 to 24
years
old) and adults (from 35 to 50
years
old) were completely the same with university
degrees
being 71%, followed by the
school
certificate
at 20% and no qualifications at 9%.
Conversely
, 72% of seniors living in Glasgow did not earn any diplomas, compared to 25% with a college degree and 3% with a
school
certificate
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words degrees, years, school, certificate with synonyms.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • percentage distribution
  • educational levels
  • qualifications
  • higher education
  • school level qualifications
  • no qualifications
  • proportions
  • notable trends
  • outliers
  • age demographics
  • economic conditions
  • social policies
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