RDA South Australia
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 RDA South Australia.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| RDA South Australia - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | South Australia | Number | % | South Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 249,235 | 31.3 | 30.6 | 188,055 | 26.5 | 25.9 | +61,180 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 82,770 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 76,304 | 10.8 | 10.6 | +6,466 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 12,000 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 10,957 | 1.5 | 1.5 | +1,043 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 166,767 | 21.0 | 21.6 | 146,135 | 20.6 | 21.4 | +20,632 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 13,691 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 15,259 | 2.2 | 2.2 | -1,568 | ||
| No qualification | 254,287 | 32.0 | 32.2 | 252,997 | 35.7 | 35.8 | +1,290 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 16,372 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 18,726 | 2.6 | 2.7 | -2,354 | ||
| Total Persons | 795,122 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 708,433 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +86,689 | ||
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 RDA South Australia in 2021 compared to South Australia shows that there was a similar proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a similar proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 66.0% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 32.0% 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 RDA South Australia and South Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (31.3% compared to 30.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (21.0% compared to 21.6%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (32.0% compared to 32.2%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.4% compared to 10.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in RDA South Australia between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+61,180 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+20,632 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+6,466 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-1,568 local workers)