East Gippsland 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 the East Gippsland Shire.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
Current industry:
Current benchmark:
Sex:
| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| East Gippsland Shire - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 3,564 | 20.1 | 39.0 | 2,683 | 17.1 | 33.3 | +881 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 2,124 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 1,719 | 11.0 | 11.5 | +405 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 274 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 281 | 1.8 | 1.0 | -7 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 4,639 | 26.1 | 17.1 | 4,090 | 26.1 | 18.1 | +549 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 322 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 362 | 2.3 | 1.8 | -40 | ||
| No qualification | 6,333 | 35.6 | 27.8 | 5,944 | 37.9 | 31.6 | +389 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 510 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 607 | 3.9 | 2.8 | -97 | ||
| Total Persons | 17,766 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 15,686 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +2,080 | ||
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 the East Gippsland Shire in 2021 compared to Victoria 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, 61.5% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 35.6% had no qualifications, compared with 70.1% and 27.8% respectively for Victoria.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the East Gippsland Shire and Victoria were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (20.1% compared to 39.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (26.1% compared to 17.1%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (35.6% compared to 27.8%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Inadequately described or not stated (2.9% compared to 2.2%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the East Gippsland Shire between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+881 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+549 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+405 local workers)
- No qualification (+389 local workers)