NSW Year 12 Completion Rate from 2002 to 2015

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 (%)20022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015
Metropolitan Male6465666565656465686970707171
Metropolitan Female7272747473747474767978787978
Metropolitan total6869706969696969727474747574
Provoincial Male5557565453545254565958565961
Provincial Female7171697069696869707472717272
Provincial total6263626160616061636665646566
Remote Male6057535350585255545355636054
Remote Female9173818183788274727776857778
Remote total7464666666686664626465746866
Very Remote Male5650435663435464543252645751
Very Remote Female6366596486797750555657765858
Very Remote total5957516074616557554455706255
All areas Male6163636262626162656767676868
All areas Female7272737372737273757877777777
All areas total6667686767676767707272727372

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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