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 Kyogle.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyogle - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | NSW | Number | % | NSW | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 621 | 21.5 | 38.4 | 503 | 18.4 | 32.6 | +118 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 273 | 9.5 | 11.0 | 246 | 9.0 | 11.1 | +27 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 50 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 39 | 1.4 | 1.2 | +11 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 710 | 24.6 | 18.1 | 624 | 22.9 | 18.7 | +86 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 62 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 91 | 3.3 | 2.3 | -29 | ||
| No qualification | 1,070 | 37.1 | 27.0 | 1,118 | 41.0 | 31.1 | -48 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 98 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 107 | 3.9 | 2.9 | -9 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,884 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,728 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +156 | ||
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 Kyogle in 2021 compared to NSW 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, 59.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 37.1% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for NSW.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Kyogle and NSW were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (21.5% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (37.1% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (24.6% compared to 18.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (9.5% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Kyogle between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+118 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+86 local workers)
- No qualification (-48 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-29 local workers)