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2015 Early School Leavers Report a Reference Group Advises on the Design and Documents the Results of the Annual Statewide Conduct of the Survey Early School Leavers A report on the destinations of young people who left Queensland schools in Years 10, 11 and prior to completing Year 12 in 2014 nextstep Early School Leavers A report on the destinations of young people who left Queensland schools in Years 10, 11 and prior to completing Year 12 in 2014 Acknowledgments The Next Step team gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the members of the Next Step survey reference group and the organisations they represent: Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (Queensland branch) Catholic Secondary Principals Association of Queensland Independent Schools Queensland Queensland Catholic Education Commission Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority Queensland Government Statistician’s Office Queensland Secondary Principals' Association Queensland University of Technology State Schools Division, Department of Education and Training Training and Skills Division, Department of Education and Training The Next Step team extends its sincere thanks to the many young Queenslanders who gave up their time to participate in the Early School Leavers survey. This research is funded by the Queensland Government. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License © State of Queensland (2016) ii Early School Leavers Queensland 2015 Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................... ii List of tables ............................................................................................................................................................... v List of figures .............................................................................................................................................................. vi Photograph acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................ viii Glossary .....................................................................................................................................................................ix Chapter 1 – Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1 Background ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Survey methodology ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Break in time-series .................................................................................................................................................... 2 Terminology ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Effects of rounding ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Data editing ................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Profile of early school leavers ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Response rates........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Proxies ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Summary of findings ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 – Main destinations of early school leavers....................................................... 11 Main destination........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Education and employment destinations ................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 3 – Destinations over time of early school leavers .............................................. 19 Main destination over time ........................................................................................................................................ 19 Work and study destinations over time ...................................................................................................................... 22 Education and training destinations over time ........................................................................................................... 23 Employment destinations over time .......................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 4 – Education and training destinations ................................................................ 27 All early school leavers in education or training ......................................................................................................... 27 Education and training by sex ................................................................................................................................... 29 Education and training by year level.......................................................................................................................... 30 Study load................................................................................................................................................................. 30 Field of study ............................................................................................................................................................ 31 Study provider .......................................................................................................................................................... 33 Working and non-working students ........................................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 5 – Employment destinations ................................................................................. 39 All early school leavers in employment ..................................................................................................................... 39 Permanent and Casual workers ................................................................................................................................ 48 Working and not in education or training ................................................................................................................... 51 Working and in education or training ......................................................................................................................... 54 Chapter 6 – Apprentices and Trainees ................................................................................. 57 Early school leavers in apprenticeships or traineeships ............................................................................................ 57 Education and training destinations of apprentices and trainees ............................................................................... 58 Employment destinations of apprentices and trainees ............................................................................................... 61 Chapter 7 – Not studying; not employed; and not studying or employed ....................... 67 Overview .................................................................................................................................................................. 67 Not studying .............................................................................................................................................................. 68 Not employed ........................................................................................................................................................... 72 Not studying or employed ......................................................................................................................................... 73 Early School Leavers Queensland 2015 iii Chapter 8 – Regional differences in post-school destinations ......................................... 79 South East Queensland/Regional Queensland ......................................................................................................... 79 Education Council zone differences .......................................................................................................................... 84 ABS Statistical Area Level 4 ..................................................................................................................................... 84 Chapter 9 – Main destinations of early school leavers by subgroups .............................. 91 Indigenous status ...................................................................................................................................................... 91 Language background other than English ................................................................................................................
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