The charts detail the proportion of Australian secondary school graduates who were unemployed, employed or further education in 1980, 1990, and 2000.

The pie charts below illustrate the information about the status of Australian
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graduates over 20 years.
Overall
,
while
the rate of people pursuing
further
education had a downward trend, employed students witnessed a remarkable growth. Noticeably, there was a minimal change in the rate of jobless ones. In 1980, accounting for 50%, the proportion of students who continuously studied in academic programmes was the highest, followed by the percentage of employed and unemployed people with 40% and 10% respectively. After a decade,
this
figure significantly decreased to 38%,
then
maintained its one-third proportion in the following 10 years.
On the other hand
, beginning with 40% in 1980, the number of graduates successfully applying for their jobs went up by 10% in the next decade
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and moderately increased to 55% from 1990 to 2000,
then
became the majority.
Additionally
, after rising marginally from 10% to 12% in 2000 the figure for people who were unemployed saw a sharp fall to 8%, the lowest over a 20-year period.
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