Table 4 Graduations in tertiary education, by gender, level and age 1999/00, 2008/09, 2009/10

4 Graduations in tertiary education, by gender, level and age 1999/00, 2008/09, 2009/10
Level and age	1999/00		2008/09		2009/10

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

Tertiary education, short and medium¹	23 632	63.8	24 264	64.1	25 986	64.3
19-24 years	10 971	65.1	11 886	66.8	13 036	67.1
25-29 years	7 470	59.3	6 262	57.6	6 638	57.1
30-34 years	2 122	62.2	2 276	60.0	2 270	62.3
35-39 years	1 333	70.2	1 511	67.6	1 558	68.5
40-44 years	925	73.9	1 211	70.7	1 235	71.3
45-44 years	513	70.4	703	70.6	753	68.3
50-54 years	227	74.4	317	69.1	360	61.4
55-59 years	56	50.0	79	44.3	105	52.4
60 years and above	15	40.0	19	31.6	31	41.9
Tertiary education, long²	7 325	46.3	9 855	56.1	10 816	54.4
19-24 years	1 001	43.2	1 967	52.8	2 041	51.2
25-29 years	4 056	47.2	4 930	54.4	5 392	51.7
30-34 years	1 088	44.0	1 152	54.0	1 240	54.4
35-39 years	484	38.4	593	56.2	681	56.5
40-44 years	313	51.8	467	68.5	527	63.9
45-44 years	217	53.9	374	69.8	441	70.3
50-54 years	116	60.3	231	75.8	302	71.2
55-59 years	38	60.5	108	69.4	137	70.1
60 years and above	12	83.3	33	54.5	55	52.7
Second stage of tertiary education³	659	33.2	1 084	45.8	1 202	44.8
25-29 years	95	30.5	132	39.4	176	32.4
30-34 years	227	30.8	392	41.1	372	44.1
35-39 years	124	34.7	223	54.3	276	44.6
40-44 years	90	35.6	126	39.7	146	47.9
45-44 years	58	43.1	82	48.8	96	52.1
50-54 years	37	32.4	64	48.4	75	54.7
55-59 years	16	37.5	41	61.0	36	66.7
60 years and above	12	16.7	24	66.7	25	36.0

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.