The bar chart below shows the numbers of men and women attending various evening courses at an adult education centre in the year 2009. The pie chart gives information about the ages of these course participants

The bar

chart

compares the numbers of males and females who took four different evening classes in 2009, and the pie

chart

shows the age profile of these attendees.

It is clear that

significantly more women than men attended evening classes at the education centre. We can

also

see that evening courses were much more popular among older adults.

According to

the bar

chart

, drama, painting and language courses all attracted more women than men to the education centre in 2009. Language classes had the highest number of participants

overall

, with 40 female and 20 male students,

while

painting was a popular choice among both genders, attracting 30 female and 25 male attendees. The only course with a higher number of males was sculpture, but

this

course was taken by a mere 15 people in total. Looking at the age profile pie

chart

, we can see that the majority of people attending evening lessons were over 40 years of age. To be precise, 42% of them were aged 50 or more, and 26% were aged between 40 and 49. Younger adults were in the minority, with only 11% of students aged 20 to 29, and only 5% aged under 20