Adelaide Hills Council
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In Adelaide Hills Council, the workforce has a similar proportion with University qualifications compared to South Australia.
Qualification levels help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of local workers in a particular industry.
The level of qualifications in a workforce relate to a number of factors including:
- The age of the workforce;
- The skill and qualification level required to enter an industry;
- The professional 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.
Educational Qualification statistics should be looked at in conjunction with Field of qualification and Occupations data for a full education analysis for Adelaide Hills Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Hills Council - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 2,507 | 25.5 | 25.9 | 2,138 | 21.7 | 22.1 | +369 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,107 | 11.3 | 10.6 | 1,019 | 10.3 | 9.4 | +88 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 142 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 173 | 1.8 | 1.6 | -31 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 2,012 | 20.5 | 21.4 | 1,851 | 18.8 | 20.0 | +161 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 217 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 189 | 1.9 | 1.9 | +28 | ||
| No qualification | 3,603 | 36.6 | 35.8 | 4,121 | 41.8 | 41.0 | -518 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 249 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 368 | 3.7 | 3.9 | -119 | ||
| Total Persons | 9,837 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 9,859 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -22 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2011 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id informed decisions Please refer to specific data notes for more information | |||||||||
Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the in Adelaide Hills Council in 2016 compared to South Australia shows that there was a higher proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a lower proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 60.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 36.6% had no qualifications, compared with 61.5% and 35.8% respectively for South Australia.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Adelaide Hills Council and South Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (20.5% compared to 21.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (36.6% compared to 35.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (11.3% compared to 10.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (25.5% compared to 25.9%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Adelaide Hills Council between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-518 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+369 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+161 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+88 local workers)