Charters Towers Regional Council
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 Charters Towers Regional Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Charters Towers Regional Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
Bachelor or Higher degree | 858 | 17.3 | 29.3 | 680 | 15.9 | 25.1 | +178 | ||
Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 361 | 7.3 | 11.3 | 302 | 7.1 | 10.9 | +59 | ||
Certificate I and II Level | 96 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 70 | 1.6 | 1.3 | +26 | ||
Certificate III & IV Level | 1,357 | 27.3 | 23.2 | 1,022 | 23.9 | 23.0 | +335 | ||
Certificate Level, nfd | 67 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 98 | 2.3 | 2.0 | -31 | ||
No qualification | 2,081 | 41.9 | 30.7 | 1,970 | 46.1 | 35.0 | +111 | ||
Inadequately described or not stated | 143 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 128 | 3.0 | 2.7 | +15 | ||
Total Persons | 4,963 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,270 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +693 | ||
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 |
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the in Charters Towers Regional Council in 2021 compared to Queensland 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, 55.2% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 41.9% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Charters Towers Regional Council and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (17.3% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (41.9% compared to 30.7%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (27.3% compared to 23.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (7.3% compared to 11.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Charters Towers Regional Council between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+335 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+178 local workers)
- No qualification (+111 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+59 local workers)