Coastal Urban Economic Region
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In the Coastal Urban Economic Region, 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 Coastal Urban Economic Region.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Urban Economic Region - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 5,341 | 15.4 | 22.6 | 4,795 | 13.5 | 19.8 | +546 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 3,253 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 2,782 | 7.8 | 8.2 | +471 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 731 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 762 | 2.1 | 1.8 | -31 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 9,586 | 27.6 | 24.0 | 9,412 | 26.5 | 23.1 | +174 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 883 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 561 | 1.6 | 1.4 | +322 | ||
| No qualification | 13,893 | 39.9 | 37.2 | 15,776 | 44.3 | 41.6 | -1,883 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,095 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 1,488 | 4.2 | 4.1 | -393 | ||
| Total Persons | 34,782 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 35,576 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -794 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2011 and 2016. 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 Coastal Urban Economic Region 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, 56.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 39.9% 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 Coastal Urban Economic Region and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (15.4% compared to 22.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (27.6% compared to 24.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (39.9% compared to 37.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (2.1% compared to 1.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Coastal Urban Economic Region between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-1,883 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+546 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+471 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+322 local workers)