Kyogle 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 Kyogle Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyogle Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | NSW | Number | % | NSW | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 503 | 18.4 | 32.6 | 426 | 15.7 | 27.9 | +77 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 246 | 9.0 | 11.1 | 211 | 7.8 | 10.5 | +35 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 39 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 29 | 1.1 | 1.4 | +10 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 624 | 22.9 | 18.7 | 602 | 22.1 | 18.8 | +22 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 91 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 68 | 2.5 | 1.9 | +23 | ||
| No qualification | 1,118 | 41.0 | 31.1 | 1,235 | 45.4 | 34.9 | -117 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 107 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 149 | 5.5 | 4.5 | -42 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,728 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,720 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +8 | ||
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 Kyogle Council area in 2016 compared to NSW shows that there was a lower proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a higher proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 55.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 41.0% had no qualifications, compared with 65.9% and 31.1% respectively for NSW.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Kyogle Council area and NSW were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (18.4% compared to 32.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (41.0% compared to 31.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (22.9% compared to 18.7%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (9.0% compared to 11.1%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Kyogle Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-117 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+77 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+35 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+23 local workers)