Meander Valley 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 Meander Valley Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meander Valley Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,010 | 18.7 | 29.3 | 978 | 17.8 | 22.6 | +32 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 455 | 8.4 | 9.1 | 506 | 9.2 | 9.2 | -51 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 126 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 100 | 1.8 | 1.8 | +26 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,420 | 26.2 | 24.0 | 1,329 | 24.2 | 24.0 | +91 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 101 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 121 | 2.2 | 2.3 | -20 | ||
| No qualification | 2,156 | 39.8 | 31.8 | 2,271 | 41.3 | 37.2 | -115 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 145 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 195 | 3.5 | 2.9 | -50 | ||
| Total Persons | 5,413 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 5,500 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -87 | ||
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 Meander Valley Council in 2021 compared to Tasmania 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, 57.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 39.8% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 31.8% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Meander Valley Council and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (18.7% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (39.8% compared to 31.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.2% compared to 24.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.4% compared to 9.1%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Meander Valley Council between 2016 and 2021 were:
- No qualification (-115 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+91 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (-51 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+32 local workers)