Livingstone Shire 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 Livingstone Shire Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingstone Shire Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,436 | 16.2 | 25.1 | 1,128 | 13.8 | 21.5 | +308 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 746 | 8.4 | 10.9 | 624 | 7.6 | 9.3 | +122 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 161 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 138 | 1.7 | 1.5 | +23 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 2,205 | 24.9 | 23.0 | 1,802 | 22.1 | 21.6 | +403 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 202 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 119 | 1.5 | 1.7 | +83 | ||
| No qualification | 3,874 | 43.7 | 35.0 | 4,037 | 49.4 | 40.6 | -163 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 247 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 319 | 3.9 | 3.8 | -72 | ||
| Total Persons | 8,871 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 8,167 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +704 | ||
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 Livingstone Shire Council area in 2016 compared to Queensland 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, 53.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 43.7% had no qualifications, compared with 62.3% and 35.0% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Livingstone Shire Council area and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (16.2% compared to 25.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (43.7% compared to 35.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.4% compared to 10.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (24.9% compared to 23.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Livingstone Shire Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+403 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+308 local workers)
- No qualification (-163 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+122 local workers)