The charts show the Australian school leavers did immediately after leaving secondary school. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. v.2

The pie charts illustrate what did school leavers do after graduating from secondary school in Australia from 1980 to 2000. It is clear from the given charts that there was a upward trend in the proportion of employed school leavers whilst the rate of schoolchildren chose to have further education decreased gradually throughout 20 years. In 1980, a half of Australian school leavers chose to continue their study after secondary graduation. This rate plummetted to just 38 per cent after a decade and remained relatively stable at 37 per cent 10 years later. In contrast, the percentage of pupils pursued a job right after leaving secondary school increased steadily over the shown period, from 40 per cent in the initial stage to over a half after 2 decades. The figure for those who have no job after graduating from secondary school, however, saw a minor fluctuation when this rate rose by 2 per cent to 12 per cent from 1980 to 1990, followed by a decrease to 8 per cent in 2000.