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 Brisbane.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Brisbane - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 339,205 | 41.7 | 29.3 | 258,651 | 36.2 | 25.1 | +80,554 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 95,146 | 11.7 | 11.3 | 82,549 | 11.6 | 10.9 | +12,597 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 9,269 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 7,209 | 1.0 | 1.3 | +2,060 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 134,823 | 16.6 | 23.2 | 121,859 | 17.1 | 23.0 | +12,964 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 13,026 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 12,415 | 1.7 | 2.0 | +611 | ||
| No qualification | 206,895 | 25.4 | 30.7 | 215,666 | 30.2 | 35.0 | -8,771 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 15,651 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 15,874 | 2.2 | 2.7 | -223 | ||
| Total Persons | 814,015 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 714,223 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +99,792 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. 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 Brisbane in 2021 compared to Queensland 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, 72.7% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 25.4% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Brisbane and Queensland were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (41.7% compared to 29.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (16.6% compared to 23.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (25.4% compared to 30.7%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (1.1% compared to 1.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Brisbane between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+80,554 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+12,964 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+12,597 local workers)
- No qualification (-8,771 local workers)