Inner West Council area
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 Inner West Council area.
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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| Inner West Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 30,480 | 46.3 | 38.4 | 23,980 | 38.4 | 32.6 | +6,500 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 8,351 | 12.7 | 11.0 | 7,862 | 12.6 | 11.1 | +489 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 593 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 538 | 0.9 | 1.2 | +55 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 8,373 | 12.7 | 18.1 | 8,806 | 14.1 | 18.7 | -433 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,186 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1,399 | 2.2 | 2.3 | -213 | ||
| No qualification | 15,322 | 23.3 | 27.0 | 17,975 | 28.8 | 31.1 | -2,653 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,536 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1,841 | 3.0 | 2.9 | -305 | ||
| Total Persons | 65,841 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 62,401 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +3,440 | ||
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 Inner West Council area in 2021 compared to New South Wales 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, 74.4% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 23.3% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for New South Wales.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Inner West Council area and New South Wales were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (46.3% compared to 38.4%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (12.7% compared to 18.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (23.3% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.7% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Inner West Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+6,500 local workers)
- No qualification (-2,653 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+489 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (-433 local workers)