City of South Perth
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 South Perth.
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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| City of South Perth - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Western Australia | Number | % | Western Australia | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 6,436 | 45.6 | 31.1 | 5,450 | 42.4 | 27.4 | +986 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,812 | 12.8 | 10.9 | 1,649 | 12.8 | 10.8 | +163 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 168 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 103 | 0.8 | 1.4 | +65 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,801 | 12.8 | 21.8 | 1,656 | 12.9 | 21.9 | +145 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 271 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 281 | 2.2 | 2.1 | -10 | ||
| No qualification | 3,292 | 23.3 | 30.1 | 3,389 | 26.4 | 33.6 | -97 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 329 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 329 | 2.6 | 2.8 | -- | ||
| Total Persons | 14,109 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 12,857 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,252 | ||
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 South Perth in 2021 compared to Western 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, 74.3% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 23.3% had no qualifications, compared with 67.4% and 30.1% respectively for Western Australia.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of South Perth and Western Australia were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (45.6% compared to 31.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (12.8% compared to 21.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (23.3% compared to 30.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.8% compared to 10.9%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of South Perth between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+986 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+163 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+145 local workers)
- No qualification (-97 local workers)