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

The given pie charts presented information on the percentage of the activities pursued by Australian

students

after completing secondary

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1980, 1990 and 2000. A glance at the graphs reveals that enrolling in

further

education and working were the two main choices for Australian

students

while

unemployment played a minor part. Among the three destinations, the number of unemployed

students

was the least at only 10% of the total graduates in 1980.

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these saw an increase to 12% in 1990,

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fell back to 8% in 2000. Meanwhile, continuing higher education and taking a job took turns in order of being the most popular option for school leavers. In detail, half of all

students

leaving secondary school decided higher academic pursuit to be their first preference in 1980 but

this

choice became less attractive in the following years with 38% and 37% continuing their

further

studies in 1990 and 2000, respectively.

By contrast

, only 40% of

students

graduating from secondary schools took a job right away in 1980 but

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proportion increased to 50% in 1990 and reached a peak of 55% in the final year