City of Moreland
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 City of Moreland.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Moreland - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 13,139 | 33.9 | 33.3 | 9,946 | 28.2 | 28.6 | +3,193 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 4,825 | 12.4 | 11.5 | 3,869 | 11.0 | 10.4 | +956 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 346 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 364 | 1.0 | 1.1 | -18 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 6,363 | 16.4 | 18.1 | 5,808 | 16.5 | 17.9 | +555 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 686 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 603 | 1.7 | 1.5 | +83 | ||
| No qualification | 12,276 | 31.6 | 31.6 | 13,009 | 36.9 | 36.4 | -733 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,173 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 1,614 | 4.6 | 4.0 | -441 | ||
| Total Persons | 38,808 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 35,213 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +3,595 | ||
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 the City of Moreland in 2016 compared to Victoria shows that there was a higher proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a lower proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 65.3% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 31.6% had no qualifications, compared with 65.7% and 31.6% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Moreland and Victoria were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (16.4% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.4% compared to 11.5%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (33.9% compared to 33.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.0% compared to 2.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Moreland between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+3,193 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+956 local workers)
- No qualification (-733 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+555 local workers)