School leavers from A.C.T. and Queanbeyan schools, 1980

In this survey, school leavers were asked: about school attended and regular part-time work during 1979; reasons for leaving school; whether they had a definite promise of a job on leaving; and questions, using a monthly time-frame, about work, activities, and receipt of unemployment benefits from December 1979 to July 1980. As well, there were questions on education, current employment including type, location and employment sector, opinions on whether the school had prepared the respondent for the tasks associated with employment, and any other comments. Year 12 leavers were asked, in addition, about the type of regular part-time work in 1979, reasons for staying at school after year 10, courses completed in years 11 and 12, tertiary entrance score, educational courses applied for, accepted for, and commenced, current courses, and for an adequacy rating of the school's preparation of the respondent in the light of individual interests and plans. Background variables were age and sex.