East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula
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 East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Northern Territory | Number | % | Northern Territory | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,055 | 23.0 | 31.6 | 876 | 19.6 | 25.2 | +179 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 379 | 8.3 | 10.6 | 377 | 8.4 | 10.3 | +2 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 101 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 128 | 2.9 | 1.7 | -27 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,254 | 27.4 | 22.5 | 1,196 | 26.8 | 25.1 | +58 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 122 | 2.7 | 1.7 | 120 | 2.7 | 2.1 | +2 | ||
| No qualification | 1,526 | 33.3 | 29.0 | 1,524 | 34.1 | 32.0 | +2 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 146 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 244 | 5.5 | 3.6 | -98 | ||
| Total Persons | 4,583 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,465 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +118 | ||
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 East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula in 2021 compared to Northern Territory 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, 63.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 33.3% had no qualifications, compared with 68.2% and 29.0% respectively for Northern Territory.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula and Northern Territory were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (23.0% compared to 31.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (27.4% compared to 22.5%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (33.3% compared to 29.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.3% compared to 10.6%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the East Arnhem LGA - Nhulunbuy - Alyangula between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+179 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+58 local workers)
- Certificate I and II Level (-27 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+2 local workers)