Murchison - Burnie Economic Region
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In the Murchison - Burnie 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 Murchison - Burnie Economic Region.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murchison - Burnie Economic Region - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 3,059 | 15.0 | 22.6 | 2,817 | 13.0 | 19.8 | +242 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,776 | 8.7 | 9.2 | 1,596 | 7.4 | 8.2 | +180 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 418 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 433 | 2.0 | 1.8 | -15 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 5,622 | 27.6 | 24.0 | 5,670 | 26.2 | 23.1 | -48 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 520 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 330 | 1.5 | 1.4 | +190 | ||
| No qualification | 8,327 | 40.8 | 37.2 | 9,856 | 45.6 | 41.6 | -1,529 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 684 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 920 | 4.3 | 4.1 | -236 | ||
| Total Persons | 20,406 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 21,622 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -1,216 | ||
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 Murchison - Burnie 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, 55.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 40.8% 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 Murchison - Burnie Economic Region and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (15.0% compared to 22.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (40.8% compared to 37.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (27.6% compared to 24.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.7% compared to 9.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Murchison - Burnie Economic Region between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-1,529 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+242 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+190 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+180 local workers)