City of Boroondara
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
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 Boroondara.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Boroondara - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 35,158 | 49.3 | 33.3 | 29,561 | 43.9 | 28.6 | +5,597 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 8,505 | 11.9 | 11.5 | 8,342 | 12.4 | 10.4 | +163 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 490 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 539 | 0.8 | 1.1 | -49 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 7,353 | 10.3 | 18.1 | 6,995 | 10.4 | 17.9 | +358 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,164 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1,017 | 1.5 | 1.5 | +147 | ||
| No qualification | 17,141 | 24.0 | 31.6 | 18,692 | 27.8 | 36.4 | -1,551 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,574 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 2,197 | 3.3 | 4.0 | -623 | ||
| Total Persons | 71,385 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 67,343 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +4,042 | ||
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 the City of Boroondara in 2016 compared to Victoria 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, 73.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 24.0% had no qualifications, compared with 65.7% and 31.6% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Boroondara and Victoria were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (49.3% compared to 33.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (10.3% compared to 18.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (24.0% compared to 31.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (2.2% compared to 2.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Boroondara between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+5,597 local workers)
- No qualification (-1,551 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+358 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+163 local workers)