City of Canterbury Bankstown
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 City of Canterbury Bankstown.
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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| City of Canterbury Bankstown - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | New South Wales | Number | % | New South Wales | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 33,511 | 33.7 | 38.4 | 26,319 | 27.8 | 32.6 | +7,192 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 12,061 | 12.1 | 11.0 | 10,907 | 11.5 | 11.1 | +1,154 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 1,090 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1,035 | 1.1 | 1.2 | +55 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 15,517 | 15.6 | 18.1 | 16,146 | 17.0 | 18.7 | -629 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 2,090 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2,151 | 2.3 | 2.3 | -61 | ||
| No qualification | 32,317 | 32.5 | 27.0 | 35,197 | 37.1 | 31.1 | -2,880 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 2,719 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 3,019 | 3.2 | 2.9 | -300 | ||
| Total Persons | 99,305 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 94,774 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +4,531 | ||
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 City of Canterbury Bankstown 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, 64.7% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 32.5% 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 City of Canterbury Bankstown and New South Wales were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (32.5% compared to 27.0%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (33.7% compared to 38.4%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (15.6% compared to 18.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.1% compared to 11.0%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in City of Canterbury Bankstown between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+7,192 local workers)
- No qualification (-2,880 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+1,154 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (-629 local workers)