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 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Renmark Paringa Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 532 | 13.4 | 30.6 | 412 | 10.7 | 25.9 | +120 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 320 | 8.1 | 10.3 | 326 | 8.5 | 10.6 | -6 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 79 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 75 | 2.0 | 1.5 | +4 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,017 | 25.6 | 21.6 | 880 | 22.9 | 21.4 | +137 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 78 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 103 | 2.7 | 2.2 | -25 | ||
| No qualification | 1,815 | 45.7 | 32.2 | 1,883 | 49.1 | 35.8 | -68 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 127 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 156 | 4.1 | 2.7 | -29 | ||
| Total Persons | 3,968 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 3,835 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +133 | ||
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 Renmark Paringa Council area in 2021 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, 51.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 45.7% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 32.2% 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 (13.4% compared to 30.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (45.7% compared to 32.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.6% compared to 21.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.1% compared to 10.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Renmark Paringa Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+137 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+120 local workers)
- No qualification (-68 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-25 local workers)