The three pie charts manifest the changes that happened to future life decisions of secondary school

graduates in Australia in three years (1980,1990 and 2000)

From an overall perspective, it is apparent that most students tended to pursue a career immediately
after finishing school, with a significant increase in the proportion of students employed and a decrease
in those continuing with their education. Remarkably, the figure for unemployed students surged in
1990 before going through a harder drop.

As observed, the majority of secondary school graduates either took further studies or began working.
In 1980, half of the students remained in school while 40% of them looked for a job. There was a switch
in place ten years later, with employed students making up 50% and students taking further education
accounting for 38% of the total graduates. The figure for students working after finishing school
maintained its rising trend as it ascended 5% to 55% whereas that for students remaining in schools
suffered from another drop of 1% to 37% in 2000.

Contrary to the invariable tendency of the two figures mentioned, the percentage of unemployed
graduates changed quite rapidly despite being the lowest out of the three categories. Starting from 10%
in 1980, the figure reached 12% the next 10 years, but lost twice that increase 10 years later when it
dropped to around 8%.