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Post secondary attainmentOne measure of attainment is the proportion of the population that have completed aparticular level of qualification. Data from the ABS 1994 NATSIS, 2002 NATSISS,2002 GSS, 2004-05 NATSIHS and 2004-05 NHS on the proportion of people aged18 years and over who indicated that their highest level of qualification completedwas a level 3 certificate or above (that is, post graduate degree, graduate diploma orcertificate, bachelor degree, advanced diploma, diploma, and certificate levels 3and 4) are used to indicate educational attainment.Figure 3.4.3 Post secondary attainment of certificate level 3 or above bypersons aged 18 years and over, 1994, 2002, 2004-05a, b, c5040IndigenousNon-IndigenousPer cent30201001994 2002 2004-05a Error bars represent 95 per cent confidence intervals around each estimate (see chapter 2 for moreinformation). b There is no comparable dataset for non-Indigenous post secondary attainment for 1994.c Care should be taken when analysing trends between 1994, 2002 and 2004-05 because education datawere collected on a different basis.Source: ABS 1994 NATSIS (unpublished); ABS 2002 NATSISS (unpublished); ABS 2002 GSS (unpublished);ABS 2004-05 NHS and NATSIHS (unpublished); tables 3A.4.10 and 11.• Although not strictly comparable, between 1994 and 2004-05, the proportion ofIndigenous people with a certificate level 3 or above increased from 8.3 per centto 20.8 per cent (figure 3.4.3).• In 2002 and 2004-05, non-Indigenous people were more than twice as likely asIndigenous people to have completed a post secondary qualification of certificatelevel 3 or above (3A.4.10).• In 2004-05, for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, a higher proportionof people in non-remote areas had attained a post secondary qualification ofcertificate level 3 or above (25.0 per cent and 44.0 per cent, respectively)HEADLINEINDICATORS35