Maranoa 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 Maranoa Regional Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maranoa Regional Council - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,183 | 16.8 | 25.1 | 999 | 13.9 | 21.5 | +184 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 715 | 10.1 | 10.9 | 580 | 8.0 | 9.3 | +135 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 125 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 107 | 1.5 | 1.5 | +18 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,791 | 25.4 | 23.0 | 1,583 | 22.0 | 21.6 | +208 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 160 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 125 | 1.7 | 1.7 | +35 | ||
| No qualification | 2,831 | 40.1 | 35.0 | 3,527 | 48.9 | 40.6 | -696 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 249 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 287 | 4.0 | 3.8 | -38 | ||
| Total Persons | 7,054 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 7,208 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -154 | ||
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 Maranoa Regional Council 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, 56.3% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 40.1% had no qualifications, compared with 62.3% and 35.0% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Maranoa Regional Council and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (16.8% compared to 25.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (40.1% compared to 35.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.4% compared to 23.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.5% compared to 2.7%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Maranoa Regional Council between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-696 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+208 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+184 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+135 local workers)