Upper Lachlan Shire
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 Upper Lachlan Shire.
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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| Upper Lachlan Shire - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 527 | 19.7 | 38.4 | 418 | 16.8 | 32.6 | +109 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 273 | 10.2 | 11.0 | 270 | 10.9 | 11.1 | +3 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 55 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 43 | 1.7 | 1.2 | +12 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 697 | 26.0 | 18.1 | 581 | 23.4 | 18.7 | +116 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 63 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 78 | 3.1 | 2.3 | -15 | ||
| No qualification | 965 | 36.0 | 27.0 | 1,006 | 40.5 | 31.1 | -41 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 99 | 3.7 | 2.3 | 88 | 3.5 | 2.9 | +11 | ||
| Total Persons | 2,679 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,484 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +195 | ||
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 Upper Lachlan Shire 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, 60.3% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 36.0% 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 Upper Lachlan Shire and New South Wales were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (19.7% compared to 38.4%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (36.0% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.0% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (3.7% compared to 2.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Upper Lachlan Shire between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Certificate III & IV Level (+116 local workers)
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+109 local workers)
- No qualification (-41 local workers)
- Certificate Level, nfd (-15 local workers)