Sorell 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 Sorell 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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| Sorell Council area - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Tasmania | Number | % | Tasmania | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 708 | 21.2 | 29.3 | 340 | 13.5 | 22.6 | +368 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 273 | 8.2 | 9.1 | 209 | 8.3 | 9.2 | +64 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 76 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 57 | 2.3 | 1.8 | +19 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 872 | 26.1 | 24.0 | 657 | 26.1 | 24.0 | +215 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 49 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 61 | 2.4 | 2.3 | -12 | ||
| No qualification | 1,261 | 37.8 | 31.8 | 1,109 | 44.0 | 37.2 | +152 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 101 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 89 | 3.5 | 2.9 | +12 | ||
| Total Persons | 3,340 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,522 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +818 | ||
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 Sorell 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, 59.2% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 37.8% had no qualifications, compared with 65.8% and 31.8% respectively for Tasmania.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Sorell Council area and Tasmania were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (21.2% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (37.8% compared to 31.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.1% compared to 24.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (8.2% compared to 9.1%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Sorell Council area between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+368 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+215 local workers)
- No qualification (+152 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+64 local workers)