Bega Valley Shire

The workforce

The workforce is presented in two sections to answer the following questions:

What are the characteristics of the workers in each industry sector?
Where do the workers come from?

The workforce data represents characteristics of all people who are employed in the LGA, regardless of where they live. The characteristics of the workforce in an area are indicative of the structure of the local economy and the employment opportunities on offer. It is also indicative of the socio-demographic characteristics of the population in the local area and the broader region (that is, the local and regional skills on offer).

Data are presented for the total LGA workforce and for the workforce constituting each industry sector (Who are our workers?). This reveals the extent to which the workforce characteristics vary between each industry sector, which is indicative of specific industry sector workforce requirements.

Data are also presented for where each industry sector is deriving its workforce (Where do our workers come from?). This data reveals the extent to which each industry sector derives its workforce from outside the local area, that is, the level of self-containment of each industry sector and the overall level of self-containment of the total LGA workforce. This is important as many Local Governments have a policy objective of maximising the level of workforce self-containment.

Occupations

Derived from the two Census questions, 'In the main job held last week, what was the person's occupation?' and 'What are the main tasks that the person himself/herself usually performs in that occupation?'.

The occupational structure of the work force is an important indicator of the characteristics of the local economy. With other indicators, such as Educational Qualifications and Income, Occupation is a key component of evaluating the socio-economic status of the workforce and the skills required to work in the local area an in each industry sector. The occupations held by a workforce are linked to a range of factors including:

the economic base and employment opportunities available in the area;
the age of the workforce;
the skill and qualification level required to enter an industry; and
the working and social aspirations of the population.

Data options:

Select gender:

MalesFemalesPersons

Select a benchmark area:

Geographic area benchmark:

Industry sector benchmark:

Select an ANZSIC industry classification:

1993 - Time series
2006 - Latest classification

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The workforce (all industries)

Includes the sum of all industry categories.

Industries are classified according to an industry coding system. The 1993 Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) is not the lastest standard but provides a comparable classification for time-series data. This standard was used to code industry data for the 1996, 2001 and 2006 censuses, (2006 industry data was coded to both the 1993 and the 2006 standards).

For more information please refer to the 2006 Census Dictionary, and ANZSIC classification.

Occupations of the workforce (all industries) (ANZSIC 1993 - Time series industry classification)

Occupations within the All industries workforce by gender, Bega Valley Shire 2006 and 2001		2006			2001			Change
Gender	Occupation	number	%	Regional NSW %	number	%	Regional NSW %	2001 to 2006
Persons	Managers and Administrators	1,060	9.7	9.9	1,048	10.4	10.7	12
Persons	Professionals	1,679	15.4	16.6	1,436	14.3	15.5	243
Persons	Associate Professionals	1,535	14.1	12.3	1,454	14.4	11.7	81
Persons	Tradespersons and Related Workers	1,280	11.8	12.4	1,132	11.2	12.7	148
Persons	Advanced Clerical and Service Workers	366	3.4	3.0	395	3.9	3.5	-29
Persons	Intermediate Clerical, Sales and Service Workers	1,722	15.8	16.5	1,511	15.0	15.7	211
Persons	Intermediate Production and Transport Workers	819	7.5	8.6	788	7.8	8.7	31
Persons	Elementary Clerical, Sales and Service Workers	1,101	10.1	10.4	1,052	10.5	10.3	49
Persons	Labourers and Related Workers	1,235	11.4	9.4	1,177	11.7	10.4	58
Persons	Inadequately described	59	0.5	0.6	61	0.6	0.7	-2
Persons	Not stated	16	0.1	0.1	9	0.1	0.2	7
Persons	Total	10,872	100.0	100.0	10,063	100.0	100.0	809

NOTE: Table totals may not equate with other similar tables due to randomisation of small numbers.

Occupations within the workforce, Bega Valley Shire and Regional NSW 2006

Change in occupations within the workforce, Bega Valley Shire 2001 to 2006

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2001 and 2006.

Please refer to the specific data notes for more information.

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