South West Group

The residents

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

What are the characteristics of the local residents?
Where do the residents work?

The people who live in an area are one of the most important resources that an economy draws upon, both as a market that consumes goods and services and as a source of labour.

This data is from the Usual Resident dataset of the Census. It includes all the people who reside in the local area, including those people who are not in the labour force (such as the elderly, children, unpaid domestic workers and carers etc.). Presenting the characteristics of the total local residents in economy.id^® provides the context for understanding:

the characteristics of the local labour force (which is a subset of the total population);
the relationship between the residential role and function of the local area and its economic role and function;
the local market for goods and services.

More detailed information about the resident population, including suburb/locality profiles, can be found in South West Group community profile at www.id.com.au/profile/southwestgroup.

Level of qualification

Derived from the Census question, 'What is the level of the highest qualification the person has completed?'

Educational Qualifications are one of the most important indicators of the socio-economic status of an area. With other data sources, such as Household Income and Occupation, Educational Qualifications help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of an area. Level of Educational Qualifications in a population relate to a number of factors including:

the age of the population (e.g. older people tend to have more vocational qualifications, while people in their twenties and thirties are more likely to have a university degree);
the professional, social or working ambitions of people (to seek education as youth or retraining as adults);
the opportunities afforded to people to continue studying beyond compulsory schooling: and

Data options:

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MalesFemalesPersons

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Qualifications of the residents Place of usual residence

Highest qualification achieved of residents by gender, South West Group 2006 (persons aged 15 years and over)		2006
Gender	Qualification	number	%	City of Melville %
Persons	Bachelor or Higher degree	36,797	15.1	24.0
Persons	Advanced Diploma or Diploma	19,020	7.8	9.8
Persons	Vocational	43,834	17.9	13.6
Persons	No qualifications	111,769	45.7	40.8
Persons	Not Stated	33,073	13.5	11.8
Persons	Total	244,493	100.0	100.0

Highest qualification achieved of residents, South West Group 2006

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

Please refer to the specific data notes for more information.

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