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Within our thinking about retention and 15-19 strategies you may find some of the info at the link below useful.  A Newspoll recently completed

http://www.dsf.org.au/papers/195.htm

The ‘Commentaries’ link near the bottom will open the paper below which provides a good overview
Dusseldorp Skills Forum

What Young People are Thinking
Synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data
collected between July and December 2006

By Irving Saulwick and Denis Muller
Overview

This study was designed to ‘take the pulse’ of young people across Australia. 

It looked at their attitudes to life and their life prospects, in particular their attitudes to work and study, to the future and their place in it.