City of Port Phillip
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 Phillip.
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 Phillip - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 42,164 | 53.7 | 39.0 | 36,559 | 48.1 | 33.3 | +5,605 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 9,643 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 9,755 | 12.8 | 11.5 | -112 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 536 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 512 | 0.7 | 1.0 | +24 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 8,280 | 10.5 | 17.1 | 8,519 | 11.2 | 18.1 | -239 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,058 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1,164 | 1.5 | 1.8 | -106 | ||
| No qualification | 15,278 | 19.5 | 27.8 | 17,593 | 23.2 | 31.6 | -2,315 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,559 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1,832 | 2.4 | 2.8 | -273 | ||
| Total Persons | 78,518 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 75,934 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +2,584 | ||
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 Phillip in 2021 compared to Victoria 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, 78.6% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 19.5% had no qualifications, compared with 70.1% and 27.8% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of City of Port Phillip and Victoria were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (53.7% compared to 39.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (19.5% compared to 27.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (10.5% compared to 17.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.3% compared to 11.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in City of Port Phillip between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+5,605 local workers)
- No qualification (-2,315 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (-239 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (-112 local workers)