Western Parkland City
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 Western Parkland City.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Western Parkland City - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
Bachelor or Higher degree | 100,155 | 27.8 | 38.4 | 72,742 | 22.7 | 32.6 | +27,413 | ||
Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 40,110 | 11.2 | 11.0 | 34,470 | 10.8 | 11.1 | +5,640 | ||
Certificate I and II Level | 4,594 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 4,266 | 1.3 | 1.2 | +328 | ||
Certificate III & IV Level | 74,759 | 20.8 | 18.1 | 67,988 | 21.3 | 18.7 | +6,771 | ||
Certificate Level, nfd | 7,402 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 7,564 | 2.4 | 2.3 | -162 | ||
No qualification | 124,056 | 34.5 | 27.0 | 123,181 | 38.5 | 31.1 | +875 | ||
Inadequately described or not stated | 8,577 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 9,611 | 3.0 | 2.9 | -1,034 | ||
Total Persons | 359,653 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 319,822 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +39,831 | ||
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 Western Parkland City in 2021 compared to New South Wales 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, 63.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 34.5% had no qualifications, compared with 70.7% and 27.0% respectively for New South Wales.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of Western Parkland City and New South Wales were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (27.8% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (34.5% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (20.8% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (11.2% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Western Parkland City between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+27,413 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+6,771 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+5,640 local workers)
- No qualification (+875 local workers)