The charts show what 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.
The three charts reveal the information about graduates from Australia secondary school's entrance rate, employment rate and the unemployment rate in three decades.
Overall, it can be observed that the employment rate had increased from 1980 to 2000 while the further education rate had reduced during the three decades.
To begin with, there was 40% of school leavers who had chosen to get a job in 1980 and it had shown 5% of the increase in each decade. On the other hand, there are only 10% of unemployment rate in 1980 and it had decreased by 4% in the following second decades although it had risen just by 2% in 1990.
Turning to the further education rate, it is clear that half of the graduates had enrolled in university soon after graduation from high school but in 1990, the rate had reduced to 38% and this trend had remained in 2000 as well (at 37%).
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