City of Brimbank
Local workers - Qualifications - Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
In the City of Brimbank, the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services workforce has a lower proportion with University qualifications compared to Victoria.
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 Brimbank.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Brimbank - Professional, Scientific and Technical Services | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 807 | 43.1 | 62.9 | 552 | 40.5 | 58.5 | +255 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 288 | 15.4 | 11.3 | 204 | 15.0 | 11.8 | +84 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 11 | 0.8 | 0.7 | -2 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 233 | 12.5 | 6.4 | 143 | 10.5 | 6.2 | +90 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 28 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 32 | 2.3 | 1.4 | -4 | ||
| No qualification | 454 | 24.3 | 15.6 | 380 | 27.9 | 18.9 | +74 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 52 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 40 | 2.9 | 2.5 | +12 | ||
| Total Persons | 1,871 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1,362 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +509 | ||
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 Brimbank 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, 73.0% of the workers (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) who held educational qualifications, and 24.3% had no qualifications, compared with 82.4% and 15.6% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) of the City of Brimbank and Victoria were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) with Bachelor or Higher degree (43.1% compared to 62.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) with No qualification (24.3% compared to 15.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) with Certificate III & IV Level (12.5% compared to 6.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers (Professional, Scientific and Technical Services) with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (15.4% compared to 11.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services workforce in the City of Brimbank between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+255 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+90 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+84 local workers)
- No qualification (+74 local workers)