Target 6

Measures

• Number of First Nations people aged 25-34 years old who have completed qualifications at Certificate level III or above.


• Proportion (%) of First Nations people aged 25-34 years old who have completed qualifications at Certificate level III or above, by sex and over time.


• Proportion (%) of non-Indigenous people aged 25-34 years old who have completed qualifications at Certificate level III or above, over time.

Available by

• Sex: males, females, persons.


• Remoteness Area (AUS, STE only): Major cities, Inner regional, Outer regional, Remote, Very remote.


• Remoteness Area (IREG only): Major cities, Inner and Outer regional, Remote and Very remote.


• Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) (AUS only): quintiles from most disadvantaged to least disadvantaged.

Data periods

• Census night (10 August) 2021.


• Time trend data (Census nights): (10 August) 2021, (9 August) 2016, (9 August) 2011, (8 August) 2006.

Data sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing 2021, 2016, 2011 and 2006 (ABS 2022, 2021).

Region types

• Main structures: Australia, States and Territories, Statistical Areas Level 4 (SA4), Statistical Areas Level 3 (SA3).


• Indigenous structures: Indigenous Regions (IREG).

Suppression

• Data have been suppressed if the denominator for the percentage was less than 100, due to concerns about the reliability of percentages based on small denominators.


• Data have been suppressed if responses to the relevant data item(s) was not stated for >50% of the relevant population, due to relatively high exposure to potential bias.


• Data have been flagged as interpret with caution if responses to the relevant data item(s) was not stated for 25% –50% of the relevant population, due to relatively high exposure to potential bias.

Notes

• Geography based on place of usual residence.


• Certificate level III or above based on the Australian Qualifications Framework includes Certificate Level III or IV, Diploma or Advanced Diploma, Bachelor Degree, Graduate Diploma/Certificate or a Postgraduate Degree.


• Data excludes overseas visitors and people for whom Indigenous status was not stated.


• Data excludes people for whom information on highest year of school completed and non-school qualification attainment was not stated or inadequately described.


• Data for 2021 was analysed by the AIHW using ABS TableBuilder. Data for 2016, 2011 and 2006 was sourced from a custom data request provided by the ABS (ABS 2021).


• Data have been randomly adjusted by the ABS to protect confidentiality. No reliance should be placed on small numbers.


• Remoteness Areas are defined by the Australian Statistical Geographical Standard (ASGS) and based on the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia which uses the road distance to goods and services (such as general practitioners, hospitals and specialist care) to measure relative accessibility of regions around Australia (ABS 2023f).


• IRSD quintile analysis based on ABS IRSD 2021 which focuses on relative socio-economic disadvantage, using SA1 as the building block. Data are reported by IRSD quintile that are determined at the Australian level and exclude children with unknown or unavailable SEIFA score (ABS 2023i).