City of Port Adelaide Enfield
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 City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
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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| City of Port Adelaide Enfield - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 15,871 | 22.8 | 30.6 | 11,623 | 18.4 | 25.9 | +4,248 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 7,106 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 6,473 | 10.2 | 10.6 | +633 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 1,081 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 972 | 1.5 | 1.5 | +109 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 17,498 | 25.2 | 21.6 | 16,293 | 25.8 | 21.4 | +1,205 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,207 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1,304 | 2.1 | 2.2 | -97 | ||
| No qualification | 25,296 | 36.4 | 32.2 | 24,803 | 39.3 | 35.8 | +493 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,452 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1,696 | 2.7 | 2.7 | -244 | ||
| Total Persons | 69,511 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 63,164 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +6,347 | ||
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 City of Port Adelaide Enfield in 2021 compared to South Australia 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, 61.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 36.4% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 32.2% respectively for South Australia.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of City of Port Adelaide Enfield and South Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (22.8% compared to 30.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (36.4% compared to 32.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.2% compared to 21.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.2% compared to 10.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in City of Port Adelaide Enfield between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+4,248 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+1,205 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+633 local workers)
- No qualification (+493 local workers)