City of Moonee Valley
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 City of Moonee Valley.
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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| City of Moonee Valley - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Victoria | Number | % | Victoria | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 15,091 | 37.2 | 39.0 | 11,411 | 31.7 | 33.3 | +3,680 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 5,171 | 12.8 | 11.5 | 4,501 | 12.5 | 11.5 | +670 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 372 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 320 | 0.9 | 1.0 | +52 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 6,154 | 15.2 | 17.1 | 5,901 | 16.4 | 18.1 | +253 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 728 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 738 | 2.0 | 1.8 | -10 | ||
| No qualification | 12,170 | 30.0 | 27.8 | 12,139 | 33.7 | 31.6 | +31 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 862 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1,022 | 2.8 | 2.8 | -160 | ||
| Total Persons | 40,548 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 36,032 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +4,516 | ||
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 City of Moonee Valley 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, 67.9% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 30.0% 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 City of Moonee Valley and Victoria were:
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (30.0% compared to 27.8%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (15.2% compared to 17.1%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (37.2% compared to 39.0%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (12.8% compared to 11.5%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the City of Moonee Valley between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+3,680 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+670 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+253 local workers)
- Certificate I and II Level (+52 local workers)