Table 4 Graduations in tertiary education, by gender, level and age 1998/99, 2007/08, 2008/09

4 Graduations in tertiary education, by gender, level and age 1998/99, 2007/08, 2008/09
Level and age	1998/99		2007/08		2008/09

Level and age	Total	Percentage women	Total	Percentage women	Total	Percentage women

Tertiary education, short and medium¹	22 360	62.9	24 660	63.4	24 264	64.1
19-24 years	10 707	64.9	11 640	65.9	11 886	66.8
25-29 years	7 103	57.2	6 487	57.9	6 262	57.6
30-34 years	1 898	61.5	2 303	59.4	2 276	60.0
35-39 years	1 162	68.6	1 746	67.0	1 511	67.6
40-44 years	802	74.4	1 268	68.5	1 211	70.7
45-44 years	453	73.3	781	68.0	703	70.6
50-54 years	184	73.4	337	63.2	317	69.1
55-59 years	42	54.8	75	57.3	79	44.3
60 years and above	9	44.4	23	69.6	19	31.6
Tertiary education, long²	7 062	43.7	9 439	55.4	9 855	56.1
19-24 years	990	43.3	1 690	52.9	1 967	52.8
25-29 years	3 912	44.5	4 868	52.9	4 930	54.4
30-34 years	1 040	41.0	1 157	55.3	1 152	54.0
35-39 years	479	30.5	550	58.9	593	56.2
40-44 years	263	46.8	397	62.2	467	68.5
45-44 years	228	55.3	366	71.6	374	69.8
50-54 years	112	65.2	259	71.0	231	75.8
55-59 years	29	58.6	121	67.8	108	69.4
60 years and above	9	88.9	31	54.8	33	54.5
Second stage of tertiary education³	696	36.2	1 231	44.8	1 084	45.8
25-29 years	98	28.6	170	36.5	132	39.4
30-34 years	218	35.8	396	42.4	392	41.1
35-39 years	133	36.8	254	44.5	223	54.3
40-44 years	103	36.9	152	48.7	126	39.7
45-44 years	79	36.7	114	49.1	82	48.8
50-54 years	47	51.1	70	57.1	64	48.4
55-59 years	10	40.0	57	52.6	41	61.0
60 years and above	8	25.0	18	50.0	24	66.7

¹	Including graduations from programmes 4 years or less but also 2 years or longer.
²	Including graduations from programmes longer than 4 years.
³	Doctoral degrees.