Renmark Paringa 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 Renmark Paringa Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renmark Paringa Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 412 | 10.7 | 25.9 | 350 | 9.3 | 22.1 | +62 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 326 | 8.5 | 10.6 | 251 | 6.7 | 9.4 | +75 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 75 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 63 | 1.7 | 1.6 | +12 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 880 | 22.9 | 21.4 | 759 | 20.3 | 20.0 | +121 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 103 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 56 | 1.5 | 1.9 | +47 | ||
| No qualification | 1,883 | 49.1 | 35.8 | 2,075 | 55.4 | 41.0 | -192 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 156 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 194 | 5.2 | 3.9 | -38 | ||
| Total Persons | 3,835 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 3,748 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +87 | ||
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 Renmark Paringa Council area in 2016 compared to South Australia 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, 46.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 49.1% 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 Renmark Paringa Council area and South Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (10.7% compared to 25.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (49.1% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.5% compared to 10.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (22.9% compared to 21.4%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Renmark Paringa Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-192 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+121 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+75 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+62 local workers)