School leavers in Australia: profiles and pathways

This is research report number 31 in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) research program. Among the report\u27s key findings is that many early school leavers progress well in the first few years after leaving school. Taken together, the results indicate that during the late teenage years school non-completers are not unequivocally \u27worse off\u27 than school completers who do not enter higher education