Northern Midlands Council area
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In the Northern Midlands Council area, the workforce has a lower proportion with University qualifications compared to Tasmania.
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 Northern Midlands Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Midlands Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 578 | 12.1 | 22.6 | 480 | 10.9 | 19.8 | +98 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 410 | 8.6 | 9.2 | 326 | 7.4 | 8.2 | +84 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 108 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 82 | 1.9 | 1.8 | +26 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,172 | 24.6 | 24.0 | 1,120 | 25.4 | 23.1 | +52 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 91 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 57 | 1.3 | 1.4 | +34 | ||
| No qualification | 2,237 | 46.9 | 37.2 | 2,149 | 48.7 | 41.6 | +88 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 173 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 198 | 4.5 | 4.1 | -25 | ||
| Total Persons | 4,769 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,412 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +357 | ||
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 Northern Midlands Council area in 2016 compared to Tasmania 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, 49.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 46.9% had no qualifications, compared with 59.9% and 37.2% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Northern Midlands Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (12.1% compared to 22.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (46.9% compared to 37.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.6% compared to 2.9%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.6% compared to 9.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Northern Midlands Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+98 local workers)
- No qualification (+88 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+84 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+52 local workers)