City of Greater Shepparton
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 City of Greater Shepparton.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| City of Greater Shepparton - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 7,181 | 23.0 | 39.0 | 5,576 | 19.9 | 33.3 | +1,605 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 3,635 | 11.6 | 11.5 | 3,188 | 11.4 | 11.5 | +447 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 411 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 355 | 1.3 | 1.0 | +56 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 7,459 | 23.9 | 17.1 | 6,467 | 23.1 | 18.1 | +992 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 492 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 504 | 1.8 | 1.8 | -12 | ||
| No qualification | 11,285 | 36.1 | 27.8 | 10,996 | 39.2 | 31.6 | +289 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 787 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 951 | 3.4 | 2.8 | -164 | ||
| Total Persons | 31,250 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 28,037 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +3,213 | ||
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 City of Greater Shepparton in 2021 compared to Victoria 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, 61.4% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 36.1% had no qualifications, compared with 70.1% and 27.8% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Greater Shepparton and Victoria were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (23.0% compared to 39.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (36.1% compared to 27.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (23.9% compared to 17.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (2.5% compared to 2.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Greater Shepparton between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+1,605 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+992 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+447 local workers)
- No qualification (+289 local workers)