Huon Valley 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 Huon Valley 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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| Huon Valley Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 1,342 | 25.4 | 29.3 | 811 | 19.1 | 22.6 | +531 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 476 | 9.0 | 9.1 | 377 | 8.9 | 9.2 | +99 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 103 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 89 | 2.1 | 1.8 | +14 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 1,376 | 26.0 | 24.0 | 1,007 | 23.7 | 24.0 | +369 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 81 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 128 | 3.0 | 2.3 | -47 | ||
| No qualification | 1,730 | 32.7 | 31.8 | 1,673 | 39.4 | 37.2 | +57 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 178 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 165 | 3.9 | 2.9 | +13 | ||
| Total Persons | 5,286 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,250 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +1,036 | ||
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 Huon Valley 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 similar proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 63.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 32.7% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 31.8% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Huon Valley Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (25.4% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.0% compared to 24.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.4% compared to 2.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (32.7% compared to 31.8%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Huon Valley Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+531 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+369 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+99 local workers)
- No qualification (+57 local workers)