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 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| City of Port Adelaide Enfield - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 11,623 | 18.4 | 25.9 | 9,262 | 15.2 | 22.1 | +2,361 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 6,473 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 5,143 | 8.5 | 9.4 | +1,330 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 972 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 880 | 1.4 | 1.6 | +92 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 16,293 | 25.8 | 21.4 | 14,877 | 24.5 | 20.0 | +1,416 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,304 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1,021 | 1.7 | 1.9 | +283 | ||
| No qualification | 24,803 | 39.3 | 35.8 | 27,038 | 44.5 | 41.0 | -2,235 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,696 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2,589 | 4.3 | 3.9 | -893 | ||
| Total Persons | 63,164 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 60,810 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +2,354 | ||
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 City of Port Adelaide Enfield in 2016 compared to South Australia 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, 58.0% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 39.3% had no qualifications, compared with 61.5% and 35.8% 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 (18.4% compared to 25.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.8% compared to 21.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (39.3% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.2% compared to 10.6%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in City of Port Adelaide Enfield between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+2,361 local workers)
- No qualification (-2,235 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+1,416 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+1,330 local workers)