24.15 Who earns academic degrees? How do women and men compare in the pursuit of academic degrees? The following table presents counts (in thousands), as projected by the National Center for Education Statistics, of degrees earned in 2015–2016 categorized by the level of the degree and the sex of the recipient.

	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Professional/doctorate
Female	375	788	335	87
Male	577	1059	467	92
Total	952	1847	802	179

(a) How many total people are predicted to earn a degree in the 2015–2016 academic year?
(b) How many people earned associate’s degrees?
(c) What percentage of each level of degree is earned by women? Write a brief description of what the data show about the relationship between sex and degree level.