Southern Downs Regional Council
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 Southern Downs Regional Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
Current industry:
Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Southern Downs Regional Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 2,359 | 16.9 | 29.3 | 1,967 | 14.8 | 25.1 | +392 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 1,241 | 8.9 | 11.3 | 1,156 | 8.7 | 10.9 | +85 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 311 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 239 | 1.8 | 1.3 | +72 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 3,741 | 26.7 | 23.2 | 3,198 | 24.0 | 23.0 | +543 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 277 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 313 | 2.4 | 2.0 | -36 | ||
| No qualification | 5,672 | 40.5 | 30.7 | 5,975 | 44.9 | 35.0 | -303 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 398 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 464 | 3.5 | 2.7 | -66 | ||
| Total Persons | 13,999 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 13,312 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +687 | ||
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 Southern Downs Regional Council in 2021 compared to Queensland 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, 56.6% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 40.5% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Southern Downs Regional Council and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (16.9% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (40.5% compared to 30.7%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.7% compared to 23.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.9% compared to 11.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Southern Downs Regional Council between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+543 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+392 local workers)
- No qualification (-303 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+85 local workers)