City of Albany

Local workers - Qualifications - All industries

In the City of Albany, the workforce has a lower proportion with University qualifications compared to Western 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 the City of Albany.

Data source

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work

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Local workers qualifications
City of Albany - All industries 20212016Change
Qualification levelNumber%. Western AustraliaNumber%. Western Australia2016 - 2021
Bachelor or Higher degree3,56021.931.12,84319.227.4+717
Advanced Diploma or Diploma1,86411.510.91,73011.710.8+134
Certificate I and II Level4462.71.83212.21.4+125
Certificate III & IV Level4,28626.421.83,76225.421.9+524
Certificate Level, nfd3332.11.73732.52.1-40
No qualification5,36533.030.15,32435.933.6+41
Inadequately described or not stated3872.42.54613.12.8-74
Total Persons16,241100.0100.014,814100.0100.0+1,427

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions)

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Dominant groups

Analysis of the qualifications of the in the City of Albany in 2021 compared to Western Australia shows that there was a lower proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a higher proportion with no formal qualifications.

Overall, 64.6% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 33.0% had no qualifications, compared with 67.4% and 30.1% respectively for Western Australia.

The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Albany and Western Australia were:

  • A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (21.9% compared to 31.1%)
  • A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.4% compared to 21.8%)
  • A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (33.0% compared to 30.1%)
  • A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (2.7% compared to 1.8%)

Emerging groups

The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Albany between 2016 and 2021 were:

  • Bachelor or Higher degree (+717 local workers)
  • Certificate III & IV Level (+524 local workers)
  • Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+134 local workers)
  • Certificate I and II Level (+125 local workers)

City of Albany

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