City of Launceston
Local workers - Qualifications - Accommodation and Food Services
In the City of Launceston, the Accommodation and Food Services workforce has a higher 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 City of Launceston.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Launceston - Accommodation and Food Services | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 225 | 8.0 | 10.1 | 199 | 7.3 | 7.2 | +26 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 121 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 110 | 4.0 | 4.5 | +11 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 81 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 87 | 3.2 | 3.0 | -6 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 525 | 18.7 | 18.9 | 448 | 16.5 | 17.9 | +77 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 56 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 19 | 0.7 | 1.1 | +37 | ||
| No qualification | 1,740 | 62.0 | 57.9 | 1,754 | 64.4 | 62.1 | -14 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 58 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 106 | 3.9 | 4.1 | -48 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,806 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,723 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +83 | ||
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 Launceston in 2016 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, 35.9% of the workers (Accommodation and Food Services) who held educational qualifications, and 62.0% had no qualifications, compared with 39.5% and 57.9% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce (Accommodation and Food Services) of the City of Launceston and Tasmania were:
- A larger percentage of local workers (Accommodation and Food Services) with No qualification (62.0% compared to 57.9%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Accommodation and Food Services) with Bachelor or Higher degree (8.0% compared to 10.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Accommodation and Food Services) with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (4.3% compared to 5.5%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Accommodation and Food Services) with Inadequately described or not stated (2.1% compared to 2.6%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the Accommodation and Food Services workforce in the City of Launceston between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+77 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+37 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+26 local workers)
- No qualification (-14 local workers)