City of Stonnington
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 Stonnington.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2011 (experimental imputed) & 2016 – by place of work
Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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City of Stonnington - All industries | 2016 | 2011 | Change | ||||||
Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2011 - 2016 | ||
Bachelor or Higher degree | 23,764 | 43.2 | 33.3 | 18,879 | 37.2 | 28.6 | +4,885 | ||
Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 7,177 | 13.1 | 11.5 | 6,747 | 13.3 | 10.4 | +430 | ||
Certificate I and II Level | 407 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 460 | 0.9 | 1.1 | -53 | ||
Certificate III & IV Level | 6,241 | 11.4 | 18.1 | 5,723 | 11.3 | 17.9 | +518 | ||
Certificate Level, nfd | 935 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 805 | 1.6 | 1.5 | +130 | ||
No qualification | 15,023 | 27.3 | 31.6 | 16,134 | 31.8 | 36.4 | -1,111 | ||
Inadequately described or not stated | 1,416 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 1,965 | 3.9 | 4.0 | -549 | ||
Total Persons | 54,963 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 50,713 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +4,250 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2011 and 2016. 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 Stonnington in 2016 compared to Victoria 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, 70.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 27.3% had no qualifications, compared with 65.7% and 31.6% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the City of Stonnington and Victoria were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (43.2% compared to 33.3%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (11.4% compared to 18.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with No qualification (27.3% compared to 31.6%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (13.1% compared to 11.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Stonnington between 2011 and 2016 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+4,885 local workers)
- No qualification (-1,111 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+518 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+430 local workers)