City of Charles Sturt
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 Charles Sturt.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
Current industry:
Current benchmark:
Gender:
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Charles Sturt - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 9,788 | 24.5 | 25.9 | 7,826 | 19.4 | 22.1 | +1,962 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 4,156 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 3,670 | 9.1 | 9.4 | +486 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 499 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 582 | 1.4 | 1.6 | -83 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 8,631 | 21.6 | 21.4 | 8,661 | 21.5 | 20.0 | -30 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 825 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 666 | 1.7 | 1.9 | +159 | ||
| No qualification | 14,918 | 37.4 | 35.8 | 17,248 | 42.8 | 41.0 | -2,330 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,063 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 1,657 | 4.1 | 3.9 | -594 | ||
| Total Persons | 39,880 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 40,310 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -430 | ||
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 Charles Sturt in 2016 compared to South 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, 59.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 37.4% 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 the City of Charles Sturt and South Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (37.4% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (24.5% compared to 25.9%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (1.3% compared to 1.5%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (21.6% compared to 21.4%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Charles Sturt between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-2,330 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+1,962 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+486 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+159 local workers)