Southern Mallee District Council
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
In the Southern Mallee District Council, the workforce has a lower proportion with University qualifications compared to South Australia.
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 Southern Mallee District Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Mallee District Council - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 127 | 12.8 | 25.9 | 108 | 10.0 | 22.1 | +19 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 80 | 8.0 | 10.6 | 83 | 7.7 | 9.4 | -3 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 21 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 26 | 2.4 | 1.6 | -5 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 213 | 21.4 | 21.4 | 194 | 17.9 | 20.0 | +19 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 18 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 24 | 2.2 | 1.9 | -6 | ||
| No qualification | 497 | 49.9 | 35.8 | 595 | 55.0 | 41.0 | -98 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 39 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 52 | 4.8 | 3.9 | -13 | ||
| Total Persons | 995 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 1,082 | 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 Southern Mallee District Council 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, 46.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 49.9% 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 Southern Mallee District Council and South Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (49.9% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (12.8% compared to 25.9%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.0% compared to 10.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.9% compared to 2.7%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Southern Mallee District Council between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-98 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+19 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+19 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-6 local workers)