Lockyer Valley Regional Council
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 Lockyer Valley Regional Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
Current industry:
Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Lockyer Valley Regional Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 2,549 | 19.6 | 29.3 | 1,953 | 17.5 | 25.1 | +596 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,124 | 8.6 | 11.3 | 932 | 8.3 | 10.9 | +192 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 321 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 203 | 1.8 | 1.3 | +118 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 3,123 | 24.0 | 23.2 | 2,411 | 21.5 | 23.0 | +712 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 245 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 247 | 2.2 | 2.0 | -2 | ||
| No qualification | 5,272 | 40.6 | 30.7 | 5,002 | 44.7 | 35.0 | +270 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 363 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 441 | 3.9 | 2.7 | -78 | ||
| Total Persons | 12,997 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 11,189 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,808 | ||
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 Lockyer Valley Regional Council in 2021 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, 56.6% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 40.6% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Lockyer Valley Regional Council and Queensland were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (40.6% compared to 30.7%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (19.6% compared to 29.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.6% compared to 11.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (2.5% compared to 1.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Lockyer Valley Regional Council between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+712 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+596 local workers)
- No qualification (+270 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+192 local workers)