Brighton 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 Brighton Council area.
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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| Brighton Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 645 | 17.5 | 29.3 | 345 | 12.3 | 22.6 | +300 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 241 | 6.5 | 9.1 | 200 | 7.1 | 9.2 | +41 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 96 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 53 | 1.9 | 1.8 | +43 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 956 | 25.9 | 24.0 | 775 | 27.6 | 24.0 | +181 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 59 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 46 | 1.6 | 2.3 | +13 | ||
| No qualification | 1,593 | 43.2 | 31.8 | 1,288 | 45.8 | 37.2 | +305 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 98 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 103 | 3.7 | 2.9 | -5 | ||
| Total Persons | 3,688 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,810 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +878 | ||
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 Brighton Council area in 2021 compared to Tasmania 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, 54.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 43.2% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 31.8% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Brighton Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (17.5% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (43.2% compared to 31.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (6.5% compared to 9.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.9% compared to 24.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Brighton Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- No qualification (+305 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+300 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+181 local workers)
- Certificate I and II Level (+43 local workers)