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 RDA MBSC.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RDA MBSC - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 75,011 | 25.4 | 29.3 | 52,641 | 21.6 | 25.1 | +22,370 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 36,240 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 28,826 | 11.8 | 10.9 | +7,414 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 4,935 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 3,553 | 1.5 | 1.3 | +1,382 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 73,841 | 25.1 | 23.2 | 59,805 | 24.5 | 23.0 | +14,036 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 5,990 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 5,512 | 2.3 | 2.0 | +478 | ||
| No qualification | 92,130 | 31.3 | 30.7 | 87,067 | 35.7 | 35.0 | +5,063 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 6,601 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 6,552 | 2.7 | 2.7 | +49 | ||
| Total Persons | 294,748 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 243,956 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +50,792 | ||
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 RDA MBSC in 2021 compared to Queensland shows that there was a similar proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a similar proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 66.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 31.3% 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 RDA MBSC and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (25.4% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.1% compared to 23.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.3% compared to 11.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (31.3% compared to 30.7%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the RDA MBSC between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+22,370 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+14,036 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+7,414 local workers)
- No qualification (+5,063 local workers)