Goondiwindi Regional 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 Goondiwindi Regional 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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| Goondiwindi Regional Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 879 | 18.5 | 29.3 | 757 | 15.9 | 25.1 | +122 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 437 | 9.2 | 11.3 | 477 | 10.0 | 10.9 | -40 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 72 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 67 | 1.4 | 1.3 | +5 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,111 | 23.4 | 23.2 | 1,042 | 21.9 | 23.0 | +69 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 95 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 115 | 2.4 | 2.0 | -20 | ||
| No qualification | 2,045 | 43.0 | 30.7 | 2,143 | 45.0 | 35.0 | -98 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 117 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 161 | 3.4 | 2.7 | -44 | ||
| Total Persons | 4,756 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,762 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -6 | ||
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 Goondiwindi Regional Council area in 2021 compared to Queensland 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, 54.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 43.0% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Goondiwindi Regional Council area and Queensland were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (43.0% compared to 30.7%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (18.5% compared to 29.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (9.2% compared to 11.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (2.5% compared to 2.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Goondiwindi Regional Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+122 local workers)
- No qualification (-98 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+69 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (-40 local workers)