Port Pirie Regional 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 Port Pirie Regional Council area.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Pirie Regional Council area - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2011 - 2016 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 985 | 14.8 | 25.9 | 789 | 12.3 | 22.1 | +196 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 587 | 8.8 | 10.6 | 459 | 7.2 | 9.4 | +128 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 141 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 152 | 2.4 | 1.6 | -11 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,867 | 28.1 | 21.4 | 1,535 | 24.0 | 20.0 | +332 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 130 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 114 | 1.8 | 1.9 | +16 | ||
| No qualification | 2,745 | 41.3 | 35.8 | 3,097 | 48.4 | 41.0 | -352 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 188 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 259 | 4.0 | 3.9 | -71 | ||
| Total Persons | 6,643 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 6,405 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +238 | ||
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 Port Pirie Regional Council area in 2016 compared to South Australia shows that there was a higher proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a lower proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 55.8% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 41.3% 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 Port Pirie Regional Council area and South Australia were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (14.8% compared to 25.9%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (28.1% compared to 21.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (41.3% compared to 35.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.8% compared to 10.6%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Port Pirie Regional Council area between 2011 and 2016 were:
- No qualification (-352 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+332 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+196 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+128 local workers)