CANBERRA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A vast majority of Australians are employed within five years of finishing school, data has revealed.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset (ACLD), published on Tuesday, found that "72 percent of those finishing secondary school around 2011 were employed in 2016."
Phillip Gould, ABS Data Integration Partnerships Branch Program Manager, said that the most common industries for those within five years of leaving school were retail trade and accommodation and food services.
"Forty-one percent of school leavers had completed a qualification, such as a diploma or degree by 2016, with Management and Commerce, and Society and Culture being common fields of study," Gould said in a media release on Tuesday.
The ACLD is compiled using data gathered from the Census of Population and Housing.
Data released on Tuesday brought together a random sample of Census data gathered from 1.2 million Australians from 2011 and 2016.
In addition to providing an insight into school-leavers, the ACLD also analyzed the employment status of older Australians.
"The data shows that 57 percent of Australia's working age population who were unemployed in 2011 had moved into employment by 2016, with the most common industries of employment being Health Care and Social Assistance, and Retail Trade," Gould said.
"The ACLD is a unique safe and secure data resource, allowing researchers and government to study a range of population groups over time.
The ACLD will be updated in mid-2018 to include data from the 2006 Census.
