Coorong District 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 Coorong District Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coorong District Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 228 | 11.2 | 25.9 | 220 | 9.9 | 22.1 | +8 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 185 | 9.1 | 10.6 | 157 | 7.1 | 9.4 | +28 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 46 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 42 | 1.9 | 1.6 | +4 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 422 | 20.8 | 21.4 | 415 | 18.7 | 20.0 | +7 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 49 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 37 | 1.7 | 1.9 | +12 | ||
| No qualification | 1,035 | 50.9 | 35.8 | 1,246 | 56.3 | 41.0 | -211 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 68 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 97 | 4.4 | 3.9 | -29 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,033 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,214 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -181 | ||
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 Coorong District 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, 45.7% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 50.9% 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 Coorong District Council area and South Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (50.9% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (11.2% compared to 25.9%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (9.1% compared to 10.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate I and II Level (2.3% compared to 1.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Coorong District Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-211 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+28 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (+12 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+8 local workers)