Wingecarribee 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 Wingecarribee Shire.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Wingecarribee Shire - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 5,907 | 27.8 | 38.4 | 4,124 | 23.0 | 32.6 | +1,783 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 2,419 | 11.4 | 11.0 | 2,022 | 11.3 | 11.1 | +397 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 340 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 274 | 1.5 | 1.2 | +66 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 4,991 | 23.5 | 18.1 | 4,321 | 24.1 | 18.7 | +670 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 529 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 554 | 3.1 | 2.3 | -25 | ||
| No qualification | 6,459 | 30.4 | 27.0 | 6,035 | 33.7 | 31.1 | +424 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 569 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 586 | 3.3 | 2.9 | -17 | ||
| Total Persons | 21,214 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 17,916 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +3,298 | ||
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 Wingecarribee 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, 66.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 30.4% 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 Wingecarribee Shire 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 Certificate III & IV Level (23.5% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (30.4% compared to 27.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate Level, nfd (2.5% compared to 1.9%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in Wingecarribee Shire between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+1,783 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+670 local workers)
- No qualification (+424 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+397 local workers)