Access to Assets
Figure 2.8
Access to Vocational and Technical Training by Gender a. Males and females enrolled Australia
37.2
China Vanuatu Thailand
14.3 13.3 12.8 12.4 14.8 10.8 14.7 9.0 8.5 6.7
Indonesia Singapore Mongolia
4.6 5.9
Vietnam
Timor-Leste Cambodia Fiji Lao PDR Hong Kong, China
18.6
9.6
Korea, Rep. of
Malaysia
29.9
15.5
New Zealand
Tonga
42.9
16.0 17.9
5.3 6.8 4.9 4.4 3.1 2.1 2.3 3.9 1.9 1.1 0.8 2.5 0.5
10.6
vocational and technical training (% of male secondary enrollment) vocational and technical training (% of female secondary enrollment)
b. Vocational and technical education, females, by region
% of total female secondary enrollment
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Source: World Bank EdStats, latest available data, 1998–2008. Note: Boxes show 25th to 75th percentiles. Bars within the boxes show the median value. End bars show the upper and lower adjacent values. Regions are defined according to World Bank Group Classification. “High income” designates all those countries (regardless of geography, except if they are in the Middle East) whose gross national income per capita (Atlas Method) in 2008 was greater than US$11,906. For definition of geographic and high-income regions, see note to figure 2.7.
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