Perth Inner City Region
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 Perth Inner City Region.
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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| Perth Inner City Region - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Western Australia | Number | % | Western Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 138,133 | 53.4 | 31.1 | 103,706 | 48.0 | 27.4 | +34,427 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 29,597 | 11.4 | 10.9 | 25,342 | 11.7 | 10.8 | +4,255 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 2,696 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 1,965 | 0.9 | 1.4 | +731 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 30,050 | 11.6 | 21.8 | 25,234 | 11.7 | 21.9 | +4,816 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 3,653 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3,791 | 1.8 | 2.1 | -138 | ||
| No qualification | 49,011 | 18.9 | 30.1 | 50,798 | 23.5 | 33.6 | -1,787 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 5,735 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 5,369 | 2.5 | 2.8 | +366 | ||
| Total Persons | 258,875 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 216,205 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +42,670 | ||
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 Perth Inner City Region in 2021 compared to Western Australia 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, 78.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 18.9% 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 Perth Inner City Region and Western Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (53.4% compared to 31.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (18.9% compared to 30.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (11.6% compared to 21.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (1.0% compared to 1.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Perth Inner City Region between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+34,427 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+4,816 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+4,255 local workers)
- No qualification (-1,787 local workers)