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 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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City of Charles Sturt - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
Bachelor or Higher degree | 13,421 | 29.9 | 30.6 | 9,788 | 24.5 | 25.9 | +3,633 | ||
Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 4,707 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 4,156 | 10.4 | 10.6 | +551 | ||
Certificate I and II Level | 619 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 499 | 1.3 | 1.5 | +120 | ||
Certificate III & IV Level | 9,594 | 21.3 | 21.6 | 8,631 | 21.6 | 21.4 | +963 | ||
Certificate Level, nfd | 722 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 825 | 2.1 | 2.2 | -103 | ||
No qualification | 14,974 | 33.3 | 32.2 | 14,918 | 37.4 | 35.8 | +56 | ||
Inadequately described or not stated | 918 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1,063 | 2.7 | 2.7 | -145 | ||
Total Persons | 44,955 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 39,880 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +5,075 | ||
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 Charles Sturt in 2021 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, 64.6% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 33.3% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 32.2% 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 (33.3% compared to 32.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (29.9% compared to 30.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (21.3% compared to 21.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.5% compared to 10.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Charles Sturt between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+3,633 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+963 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+551 local workers)
- Certificate I and II Level (+120 local workers)