Tasmania
Local workers - Qualifications - Information Media and Telecommunications
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 Tasmania.
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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| Tasmania - Information Media and Telecommunications | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 849 | 36.4 | 36.2 | 716 | 26.0 | 24.8 | +133 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 308 | 13.2 | 12.7 | 364 | 13.2 | 13.2 | -56 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 31 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 52 | 1.9 | 1.9 | -21 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 403 | 17.3 | 17.4 | 559 | 20.3 | 21.0 | -156 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 38 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 71 | 2.6 | 2.6 | -33 | ||
| No qualification | 663 | 28.4 | 28.2 | 960 | 34.8 | 34.5 | -297 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 40 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 37 | 1.3 | 1.9 | +3 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,332 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,759 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -427 | ||
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 Tasmania in 2021 compared to Tasmania shows that there was a similar proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a similar proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 69.9% of the workers (Information Media and Telecommunications) who held educational qualifications, and 28.4% had no qualifications, compared with 70.1% and 28.2% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce (Information Media and Telecommunications) of Tasmania and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Information Media and Telecommunications) with Certificate I and II Level (1.3% compared to 1.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers (Information Media and Telecommunications) with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (13.2% compared to 12.7%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers (Information Media and Telecommunications) with Certificate Level, nfd (1.6% compared to 2.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers (Information Media and Telecommunications) with No qualification (28.4% compared to 28.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the Information Media and Telecommunications workforce in Tasmania between 2016 and 2021 were:
- No qualification (-297 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (-156 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+133 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (-56 local workers)