Two pie charts show a comparison of the proportion of people with different degrees and professions who worked in an engineering company in 1980 and 2008

The pie charts above compare the proportion of people who worked in an engineering company from the perspective of professional areas and educational levels, in 1980 and 2008.

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, in 1980, the majority of classes were

Master

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Science

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and first

degree

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in Arts,

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in 2008, the main groups were PhD

Science

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and

Master

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Science

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. In both pie graphs,

Science

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appeared as the major profession,

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Arts got less than 40%. Within Sciences, from one year to another, the

Master

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's kept the same percentage (29%),

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PhD depicts a growth from 13% to 30%, and the first

degree

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reduced from 19% to 10%. Concerning Arts, the first

degree

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fell from 25% to 11%, the

Master

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got a small augmentation from 12% to 13%, and PhD increased from 2% to 7%. In general, it is possible to see that the workers from

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company that had

master

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’s

degree

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or higher level enhanced from 56% to 79% and most of these employees were from

science

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area.