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

The pie chart depicts the next step of graduates in Australian secondary schools which are categorized into three groups. The report surveyed between 1980 and 2000. In general, there was a shifting preference in choosing to work than study for a bachelor's degree,

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people who were unemployed remained fairly unchanged.

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the data, the percentage of people who were extremely keen to improve their knowledge for

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education was 50% in 1980, and

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began to worsen to 38% in the following year, and had a declining percentage in the

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year.

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, people who were eager to work indicated an upward tendency, from 40% in 1980 to 50% in 1990, and continued to rise dramatically until 55% in 2000.

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, the proportion of unemployed was 10%, and

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was the lowest number in 1980.

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number shot up moderately to 12% in the next year. Surprisingly,

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trend did not

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and began to plunge down to 8% in 2000.