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DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT
Chapter 4
Northern Territory Regional Profi les - Central Region
Table 4.94 Highest Level of Education Achieved, School and Non-School (2006) (a) (b)
(continued)
Tanami Central Region NT Australia
No. % No. % No. % No. %
School
Other (c) 233 9.5 4 579 17.2 26 051 17.9 2 195 961 13.8
Did Not Attend
School
157 6.4 940 3.5 3 154 2.2 137 674 0.9
Below Year 10 1 526 62.0 5 834 22.0 23 761 16.4 2 084 710 13.1
Year 10 229 9.3 4 309 16.2 27 039 18.6 3 437 859 21.6
Year 11 120 4.9 2 972 11.2 17 033 11.7 1 404 740 8.8
Year 12 197 8.0 7 912 29.8 48 257 33.2 6 657 136 41.8
Total
Non-School
2 462 100.0 26 546 100.0 145 295 100.0 15 918 080 100.0
Higher
Education (d)
144 5.8 4 668 17.6 26 456 18.2 3 612 776 22.7
Certificate 160 6.5 4 128 15.6 25 018 17.2 2 662 780 16.7
Other (e) 2 158 87.7 17 750 66.8 93 821 64.6 9 642 524 60.6
Total 2 462 100.0 26 546 100.0 145 295 100.0 15 918 080 100.0
Source: ABS, Special Data Request, 2008
Note/s: (a) Based on place of usual residence
(b) Population aged 15 years and over
(c) ‘Other’ includes still at school and not stated
(d) Higher Education includes Postgraduate Degree, Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate,
Bachelor Degree, Advanced Diploma and Diploma qualification levels
(e) ‘Other’ includes persons who do not have a qualification, those whose qualification was not stated,
those whose qualification was inadequately described, and those with a qualification outside the
scope of Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED).
Nearly a third (30%) of the Central region’s population has completed Year 12. The
comparable figure for the NT is 33%. However, 22% of the population in the region has
not completed Year 10, compared to only 16% in the NT overall.
Higher education qualifications are held by the same proportion of the Central
region’s population as they are in the NT population.
The population in Alice Springs sub-region has a higher level of education than those
in other sub-regions. Petermann sub-region again outperformed the others with the
proportion of its population having non-school qualifications double that of other
areas outside Alice Springs.
About 16% of the population in the Hanson sub-region did not attend school at all.
This proportion was also high in Sandover (9%). In other sub-regions, attendance
was better but the levels of attainment were low. In Tanami sub-region 62% of the
population had not reached Year 10.
More than a third of the population in the Central region has a non-school
qualification. The majority of these are Certificate III qualifications (33%) followed by
Bachelor degrees (26%).
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