South East Queensland
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 South East Queensland.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| South East Queensland - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 574,163 | 33.4 | 29.3 | 427,565 | 28.8 | 25.1 | +146,598 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 206,866 | 12.0 | 11.3 | 172,253 | 11.6 | 10.9 | +34,613 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 24,014 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 18,036 | 1.2 | 1.3 | +5,978 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 351,716 | 20.5 | 23.2 | 302,874 | 20.4 | 23.0 | +48,842 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 31,012 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 30,037 | 2.0 | 2.0 | +975 | ||
| No qualification | 494,193 | 28.8 | 30.7 | 496,694 | 33.5 | 35.0 | -2,501 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 36,231 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 37,239 | 2.5 | 2.7 | -1,008 | ||
| Total Persons | 1,718,195 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1,484,698 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +233,497 | ||
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 South East Queensland 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, 69.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 28.8% 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 South East Queensland and Queensland were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (33.4% compared to 29.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (20.5% compared to 23.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (28.8% compared to 30.7%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.0% compared to 11.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the South East Queensland between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+146,598 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+48,842 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+34,613 local workers)
- Certificate I and II Level (+5,978 local workers)