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1. What is the bar chart about?

Positions in Puncak Emas Sdn Bhd According to Gender in year 2005.

2. What are the positions described in the bar chart?

The positions described in the bar chart are senior executives, executive, clerical staff and
support staff.

.3. Which position has equal percentage of male and female?

The position that has equal percentage of male and female is clerical staff.

4. Which position has the highest percentage?

Senior executives have the highest percentage.

5. Female:
a. Which position has the highest percentage?

The support staff.

b. Which position has the lowest percentage?

The senior executives.

6. Male:
a. Which position has the highest percentage?

Senior executives.
b. Which position has the lowest percentage?

Support staff.

7. What are the conclusions that you can make from the bar chart?

i.Most of male are in the highest position while the female are in lowest in position.
ii.Male are more suitable to take the highest position such as the senior executives and
executive than female.

8. In your opinion, why were the majority of females in the support staff position?

In my opinion, female worker need time to balance between family and job so the support
staff position is the most suitable for them. This position does not have so much commitment
and they don’t have to work overtime compared to the highest position like the senior
executives.
EXERCISE 2
The table below shows the number of accountants, architects and doctors by racial
composition between 1985 and 1995. Study the table below carefully. Then read the
following statements whether they are true or false. Indicate your answer by writing T for
true or F for false in the boxes provided.
PROFESSION YEAR MALAY CHINESE INDIAN OTHERS TOTAL

1985 110 1,115 105 112 1,442


Accountants 1990 692 4,524 346 77 5,639
1995 1,384 6,655 627 75 8,741
1985 56 432 6 13 507
Architects 1990 231 728 12 8 979
1995 365 943 20 3 1,331
1985 279 1,029 1,388 159 2,855
Doctors 1990 1,951 2,430 2,410 216 7,007
1995 3,212 3,087 3,069 241 9,609
Table 1: The Number of Accountants, Architects and Doctors by Racial Composition between
1985 and 1995

1. The number of Indian accountants doubled from 1990 to 1995. ….........[ F ]

2. From 1985 to 1995, the number of architects for all the races showed a sharp increase.
…………………………………………………………………..…… [ F ]

3. In 1985, the number of Chinese doctors ranked first while the number of Malay doctors
ranked third. ……………………………………………………………[ F ]

4. The only professionals under the “Others” category who showed an increase from 1985 to
1995 were the doctors. ………………………………………… [ T ]

5. In 1995, the number of Chinese doctors tripled that of 1985. ……………[ T ]

6. In 1990, the least popular profession among the Malays was accounting..[ F ]

7. In 1985, the number of Chinese architects was more than eight times that of Malay
architects. …………………………………………………………………[ F ]

8. The ratio of Malay to Indian accountants in 1990 was 2:1. ………………[ T ]


9. In 1995, the total number of doctors under the “Others” category was greater than the total
number of Malay doctors in 1985. ………..……………………[ F ]

10. In 1995, the number of Indian architects was smaller that the number of Malay architects
in 1985. ………………………………………………………..[ T ]

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