In iron and steel the ratio fell from 4.7 times to 0.9.
The ratio falls in the middle of all states, however.
By January this year the ratio had fallen to 17.2 pupils per teacher.
The ratio fell on February 18, 2009 to below 8.
Today, the ratio has fallen to about 15.6, on average.
In the next few years, that ratio will fall to two to one.
In 2006, however, the ratio had fallen to one per 1,697 students.
By 1981, with interest rates rising rapidly, the ratio had fallen to 4.9 percent.
In contrast, the ratio of women working fell by just 1.6 percentage points over those two years, to 56.8 percent.
In contrast, the ratio for women age 16 to 24 fell just 1.2 percentage points, to 40.4 percent.