I found both sets of original data from NSW Department of Education website and meshed them together myself for year 12 completion rate from 2002 to 2015. They are as following, after stalling in high 60th for until 2010, by 2015 NSW has hit high of 72 percent year 12 completion rate.
Locality and gender (%) | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan Male | 64 | 65 | 66 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 64 | 65 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 71 | 71 |
Metropolitan Female | 72 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 78 | 79 | 78 |
Metropolitan total | 68 | 69 | 70 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 74 |
Provoincial Male | 55 | 57 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 54 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 59 | 58 | 56 | 59 | 61 |
Provincial Female | 71 | 71 | 69 | 70 | 69 | 69 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 71 | 72 | 72 |
Provincial total | 62 | 63 | 62 | 61 | 60 | 61 | 60 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 65 | 64 | 65 | 66 |
Remote Male | 60 | 57 | 53 | 53 | 50 | 58 | 52 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 55 | 63 | 60 | 54 |
Remote Female | 91 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 83 | 78 | 82 | 74 | 72 | 77 | 76 | 85 | 77 | 78 |
Remote total | 74 | 64 | 66 | 66 | 66 | 68 | 66 | 64 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 74 | 68 | 66 |
Very Remote Male | 56 | 50 | 43 | 56 | 63 | 43 | 54 | 64 | 54 | 32 | 52 | 64 | 57 | 51 |
Very Remote Female | 63 | 66 | 59 | 64 | 86 | 79 | 77 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 76 | 58 | 58 |
Very Remote total | 59 | 57 | 51 | 60 | 74 | 61 | 65 | 57 | 55 | 44 | 55 | 70 | 62 | 55 |
All areas Male | 61 | 63 | 63 | 62 | 62 | 62 | 61 | 62 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 68 | 68 |
All areas Female | 72 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 78 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 |
All areas total | 66 | 67 | 68 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 70 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 73 | 72 |
One must wonder what prompted 5 percent higher completion rate in just a handful of years in NSW. One reason I guess would be the difficulties of securing a job for the young people and prompted more people staying at school for longer these days. This looks like coincide with the start of GFC in 2008 and end with a spike in completion rate in 2010.
Also the requirement of higher language and technical skills for the jobs these days must also be of a factor but that I think this factor must be a gradual process not as dramatic as this.
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