Snowy Monaro 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 Snowy Monaro Regional Council area.
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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| Snowy Monaro Regional Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | NSW | Number | % | NSW | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 2,797 | 24.5 | 38.4 | 1,895 | 19.4 | 32.6 | +902 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,173 | 10.3 | 11.0 | 991 | 10.2 | 11.1 | +182 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 181 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 200 | 2.1 | 1.2 | -19 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 2,917 | 25.5 | 18.1 | 2,555 | 26.2 | 18.7 | +362 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 240 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 243 | 2.5 | 2.3 | -3 | ||
| No qualification | 3,831 | 33.5 | 27.0 | 3,487 | 35.7 | 31.1 | +344 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 286 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 385 | 3.9 | 2.9 | -99 | ||
| Total Persons | 11,425 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 9,756 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,669 | ||
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 Snowy Monaro Regional Council area in 2021 compared to NSW 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, 64.0% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 33.5% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for NSW.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Snowy Monaro Regional Council area and NSW were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (24.5% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.5% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (33.5% compared to 27.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.3% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Snowy Monaro Regional Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+902 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+362 local workers)
- No qualification (+344 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+182 local workers)