King Island Council area
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In the King Island Council area, the workforce has a lower proportion with University qualifications compared to Tasmania.
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 King Island Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King Island Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 121 | 15.9 | 22.6 | 110 | 13.2 | 19.8 | +11 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 63 | 8.3 | 9.2 | 56 | 6.7 | 8.2 | +7 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 11 | 1.3 | 1.8 | -3 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 203 | 26.7 | 24.0 | 204 | 24.4 | 23.1 | -1 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 26 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 15 | 1.8 | 1.4 | +11 | ||
| No qualification | 302 | 39.8 | 37.2 | 391 | 46.8 | 41.6 | -89 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 36 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 49 | 5.9 | 4.1 | -13 | ||
| Total Persons | 759 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 836 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -77 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2011 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id the population experts Please refer to specific data notes for more information | |||||||||
Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the in the King Island Council area in 2016 compared to Tasmania 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, 55.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 39.8% had no qualifications, compared with 59.9% and 37.2% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the King Island Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (15.9% compared to 22.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.7% compared to 24.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (39.8% compared to 37.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (4.7% compared to 2.9%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the King Island Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-89 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+11 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+11 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+7 local workers)