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Figure 11.4.4 Proportion of TAFE students studying management orcommerce, business law, economics or econometric,2002–2005 a, b100802002 2003 2004 2005Per cent6040200Males Females Persons Males Females PersonsIndigenousNon-Indigenousa Management, commerce, business law, economics and econometrics defined as field of education codes,08,090901, and 0919, from the ABS Australian Standard Classification of Education. b Data are derivedbased on the number of students whose Indigenous status was identified in the NCVER data collection. Thereare a large number of students in the ‘Indigenous status unknown or not stated’ category. For example, in2005, 17.6 per cent of all students were classified as ‘Indigenous status unknown’, compared to 3.8 per centwho identified as Indigenous. ‘Indigenous status unknown’ records are separately identified in the attachmenttables.Source: NCVER (unpublished); tables 11A.4.1 and 11A.4.4.• In each year from 2002 to 2005, a lower proportion of Indigenous thannon-Indigenous TAFE students enrolled in management, commerce, businesslaw and economics courses.• The number of Indigenous TAFE students studying management, commerce,business law and economics changed very little between 2002 and 2005(23 440 in 2002 and 23 559 in 2005). The number of non-Indigenous students ofthese subjects declined from 592 533 to 544 927 over the same period (table11A.4.1).• The proportion of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous TAFE students enrolledin management, commerce, business law and economics courses graduallydecreased over the period from 2002 to 2005 (39.3 to 37.6 per cent forIndigenous students and 46.1 to 42.2 per cent for non-Indigenous students)(figure 11.4.2; table 12A.4.8).• In each year from 2002 to 2005, for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous TAFEstudents, females were more likely than males to enrol in management,commerce, business law and economics courses (figure 11.4.4).ECONOMICPARTICIPATION ANDDEVELOPMENT11.43