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.

Field of qualification

Derived from the Census question, "What is the main field of study for the person’s highest qualification completed?"

Educational Qualifications are one of the most important indicators of socio-economic status. With other data sources, such as Income and Occupation, Educational Qualifications help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of workers in a particular industry. The field of qualification information indicates, for the highest qualification the person has received, what was the primary field of study. This is likely to have some relationship to the current occupation, but this is not necessarily the case. The field of study relates to a number of factors, such as:

the age of the workforce;
the type of qualification required to enter an industry;
the availability of jobs related to fields of qualification already studied;
the types of occupations which are available in an area or industry;

The fields of qualification possessed by employed people in a particular industry are likely to show the type of skills required in that industry. Large numbers of a particular field of qualification in an industry may indicate that it is a pre-requisite for that industry. The presence of fields of qualification outside the main range of qualifications used in that industry may indicate that the industry values employees of a broad educational background, or that people haven’t been able to find employment in their chosen field.

Educational Qualification information should be looked at in conjunction with Occupation data for a clearer picture of the skills available in the workforce.

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

Select an industry sector:

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.

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

Field of qualification of the All industries workforce by gender, Bega Valley Shire			2006			2001			Change
Gender		Field of study	number	%	Regional NSW %	number	%	Regional NSW %	2001 to 2006
Persons	01	Natural and Physical Sciences	108	1.0	1.2	104	1.0	1.2	4
Persons	02	Information Technology	56	0.5	1.0	61	0.6	0.8	-5
Persons	03	Engineering and Related Technologies	1,109	10.2	11.9	1,070	10.6	12.1	39
Persons	04	Architecture and Building	472	4.3	3.5	352	3.5	3.3	120
Persons	05	Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies	329	3.0	2.6	259	2.6	2.5	70
Persons	06	Health	765	7.0	6.8	656	6.5	6.1	109
Persons	07	Education	687	6.3	5.9	585	5.8	5.3	102
Persons	08	Management and Commerce	956	8.8	10.0	773	7.7	8.5	183
Persons	09	Society and Culture	545	5.0	5.0	386	3.8	3.8	159
Persons	10	Creative Arts	146	1.3	1.3	113	1.1	1.1	33
Persons	11	Food, Hospitality and Personal Services	467	4.3	3.4	375	3.7	2.9	92
Persons	12	Mixed Field Programmes	3	0.0	0.0	3	0.0	0.0	0
Persons	91	Not stated or inadequately described	389	3.6	3.6	400	4.0	3.8	-11
Persons	93	No qualification	4,839	44.5	43.4	4,965	49.1	48.6	-126
Persons	Total	Total	10,871	100.0	100.0	10,102	100.0	100.0	769

The abbreviation 'nfd' stands for Not Further Described, and relates to the situation where a response on the Census form could be coded to a broad category but not to a more specific sub-grouping within that category

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

Field of qualification of the workforce, Bega Valley Shire and Regional NSW 2006

Change in field of qualification of 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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