Berri Barmera 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 Berri Barmera Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berri Barmera Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 772 | 17.0 | 25.9 | 657 | 14.4 | 22.1 | +115 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 481 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 426 | 9.3 | 9.4 | +55 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 81 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 90 | 2.0 | 1.6 | -9 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,073 | 23.7 | 21.4 | 993 | 21.8 | 20.0 | +80 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 138 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 104 | 2.3 | 1.9 | +34 | ||
| No qualification | 1,823 | 40.3 | 35.8 | 2,103 | 46.1 | 41.0 | -280 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 160 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 186 | 4.1 | 3.9 | -26 | ||
| Total Persons | 4,528 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,559 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -31 | ||
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 the Berri Barmera Council area 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, 56.2% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 40.3% 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 the Berri Barmera Council area and South Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (17.0% compared to 25.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (40.3% compared to 35.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (23.7% compared to 21.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate Level, nfd (3.0% compared to 2.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Berri Barmera Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-280 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+115 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+80 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+55 local workers)