Break O'Day Council area
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 Break O'Day Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Break O'Day Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 387 | 19.9 | 29.3 | 269 | 15.8 | 22.6 | +118 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 178 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 140 | 8.2 | 9.2 | +38 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 56 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 39 | 2.3 | 1.8 | +17 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 548 | 28.1 | 24.0 | 465 | 27.2 | 24.0 | +83 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 35 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 57 | 3.3 | 2.3 | -22 | ||
| No qualification | 679 | 34.9 | 31.8 | 669 | 39.2 | 37.2 | +10 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 64 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 68 | 4.0 | 2.9 | -4 | ||
| Total Persons | 1,947 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1,707 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +240 | ||
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 Break O'Day Council area 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, 61.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 34.9% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 31.8% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Break O'Day Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (19.9% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (28.1% compared to 24.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (34.9% compared to 31.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (2.9% compared to 1.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Break O'Day Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+118 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+83 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+38 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-22 local workers)