Shire of Chittering
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 Shire of Chittering.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Shire of Chittering - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Western Australia | Number | % | Western Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 272 | 17.5 | 31.1 | 185 | 13.6 | 27.4 | +87 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 152 | 9.8 | 10.9 | 121 | 8.9 | 10.8 | +31 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 26 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 19 | 1.4 | 1.4 | +7 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 396 | 25.5 | 21.8 | 326 | 24.0 | 21.9 | +70 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 38 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 28 | 2.1 | 2.1 | +10 | ||
| No qualification | 605 | 39.0 | 30.1 | 631 | 46.4 | 33.6 | -26 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 63 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 50 | 3.7 | 2.8 | +13 | ||
| Total Persons | 1,552 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1,360 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +192 | ||
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 Shire of Chittering in 2021 compared to Western 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, 57.0% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 39.0% had no qualifications, compared with 67.4% and 30.1% respectively for Western Australia.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Shire of Chittering and Western Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (17.5% compared to 31.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (39.0% compared to 30.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.5% compared to 21.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (4.1% compared to 2.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Shire of Chittering between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+87 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+70 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+31 local workers)
- No qualification (-26 local workers)