Statistics relating to education

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1971

Pre-school enrolments of Aboriginal Children in Victoria

Year	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977
Number in receipt of awards		92	110	105	109	75	76
Number Attend pre-schools		12	102	120	115	119	140

Aboriginal Primary School Enrolments

Year	1971	1972	1973	1974	1977
Enrolments	962	989	928	875	1287

These statistics show the increase in the number of Koorie primary and pre-school children in the system over a period of eight years as a result of changes in government policy.

Type of Educational Institution Attended, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1971 Census, Victoria (a), (b)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Educational institution	no.	no.	%	%
Child not yet attending school	1,053	342,555	17.27	9.91
Government school	1,430	558,083	23.45	16.15
Non-government school - Catholic	175	142,661	2.87	4.13
Non-government school - Other	52	39,712	0.85	1.15
School, other	3	1,226	0.05	0.04
School not stated	95	19,793	1.56	0.57
University	9	23,653	0.15	0.68
College of Advanced Education	58	40,984	0.95	1.19
Teachers college	8	11,074	0.13	0.32
Technical college	33	18,902	0.54	0.55
Other listed educational institution	9	12,527	0.15	0.36
All other	52	42,117	0.85	1.22
Not attending	3,121	2,202,795	51.18	63.74
Total	6,098	3,456,082	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Statistics in this table relate to where people usually live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(b) Excludes persons whose usual residence was not stated.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1971 Census of Population and Housing
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

Field of Attainment, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin - 1971 Census, Victoria (a), (b)
Persons aged 15 years and over, with a Qualification (c)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Field of attainment	no.	no.	%	%
Business, administration and commerce	33	70,955	7.25	11.75
Natural Sciences	7	15,670	1.54	2.59
Engineering and technology	19	53,697	4.18	8.89
Social and behavioural sciences	4	15,293	0.88	2.53
Education	8	55,259	1.76	9.15
Arts, music and design	13	16,331	2.86	2.70
Medicine and health	40	60,961	8.79	10.10
Agriculture, forestry	6	8,560	1.32	1.42
Metal and electrical trades	77	94,497	16.92	15.65
Vehicle trades	30	24,357	6.59	4.03
Building and furniture trades	88	69,297	19.34	11.48
Other trades	88	73,861	19.34	12.23
Other and not specified	39	44,571	8.57	7.38
Inadequately described	3	564	0.66	0.09
Total	455	603,873	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Statistics in this table relate to where people usually live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(b) Excludes persons whose usual residence was not stated.
(c) Post-school educational qualification.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1971 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

1976

Age left school, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin and Sex - 1976 Census, Victoria (a), (b) Weighted
Persons aged 15 years and over (c)

	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Age left school	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%
MALE
Still attending school	193	43	73,173	5.26	5.94	5.67
Never attended school	75	20	12,926	2.05	2.76	1.00
14 years and under	1,081	168	361,157	29.49	23.20	27.98
15 years	902	143	229,096	24.60	19.75	17.75
16 years	570	140	204,888	15.55	19.34	15.87
17 years	261	72	139,420	7.12	9.94	10.80
18 years	133	22	89,290	3.63	3.04	6.92
19 years and over	53	29	58,101	1.45	4.01	4.50
Not stated	398	87	122,940	10.86	12.02	9.52
Total	3,666	724	1,290,991	100.00	100.00	100.00
FEMALE
Still attending school	180	37	66,939	4.77	4.93	5.01
Never attended school	55	13	16,014	1.46	1.73	1.20
14 years and under	1,085	161	393,965	28.73	21.44	29.47
15 years	989	187	257,042	26.18	24.90	19.23
16 years	678	153	225,358	17.95	20.37	16.86
17 years	294	68	153,438	7.78	9.05	11.48
18 years	99	44	67,512	2.62	5.86	5.05
19 years and over	30	21	24,708	0.79	2.80	1.85
Not stated	367	67	131,946	9.72	8.92	9.87
Total	3,777	751	1,336,922	100.00	100.00	100.00
PERSONS
Still attending school	374	79	140,112	5.03	5.36	5.33
Never attended school	130	33	28,939	1.75	2.24	1.10
14 years and under	2,165	329	755,123	29.09	22.32	28.73
15 years	1,891	331	486,138	25.41	22.46	18.50
16 years	1,248	294	430,246	16.77	19.95	16.37
17 years	554	139	292,859	7.44	9.43	11.14
18 years	232	66	156,802	3.12	4.48	5.97
19 years and over	83	50	82,809	1.12	3.39	3.15
Not stated	765	153	254,886	10.28	10.38	9.70
Total	7,442	1,474	2,627,914	100.00	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Statistics in this table relate to where people usually live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(b) Any discrepancies between sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.
(c) Weighted persons - please refer to Glossary.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1976 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

Type of Educational Institution Attended, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1976 Census, Victoria (a), (b) Weighted Persons (c).

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Educational Institution	no.	no.	%	%
Pre-school, crèche	6	592	0.04	0.02
Primary:
Government	1,523	283,807	10.45	7.84
Non-government(d)	167	70,116	1.15	1.94
Total primary	1,690	353,923	11.59	9.78
Secondary:
Government	841	194,799	5.77	5.38
Non-government(d)	105	44,749	0.72	1.24
Total secondary	946	239,548	6.49	6.62
Combined primary/secondary:
Government	24	2,956	0.16	0.08
Non-government(d)	39	45,462	0.27	1.26
Total combined primary/secondary	63	48,418	0.43	1.34
Other schools(e)	34	4,865	0.23	0.13
University	36	33,507	0.25	0.93
College of Advanced Education	107	55,374	0.73	1.53
Technical colleges, etc.	88	32,020	0.60	0.89
Other educational institution(f)	62	16,613	0.43	0.46
Attendance stated, institution not stated	1,104	161,554	7.57	4.47
Type of institution not stated	1,396	352,407	9.58	9.74
Not attending	9,045	2,319,071	62.04	64.10
TOTAL	14,579	3,617,894	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Statistics in this table relate to where people usually live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(b) Any discrepancies between sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.
(c) Weighted persons - please refer to Glossary.
(d) Includes Catholic, other denominational and nondenominational schools.
(e) Includes special schools, overseas schools and other schools not elsewhere classified.
(f) Includes teaching hospitals, theological colleges, defence training institutions, business and coaching colleges, overseas educational institutions, and other educational institutions.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1976 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Level of Education Attainment (a), by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1976 Census, Victoria (b), (c) Weighted
Persons aged 15 years and over (d)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Level of qualification	no.	no.	%	%
Degree or higher	15	70,801	0.17	2.69
Diploma	79	99,532	0.89	3.79
Technical certificate	169	98,995	1.90	3.77
Trade certificate	769	241,807	8.62	9.20
Not classifiable or inadequately described	64	36,380	0.72	1.38
Not stated	1,054	322,746	11.82	12.28
No qualification	6,765	1,757,651	75.87	66.88
Total	8,916	2,627,912	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Post-school educational qualification
(b) Statistics in this table relate to where people usually live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(c) Any discrepancies between sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.
(d) Weighted persons - please refer to Glossary.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1976 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Field of Attainment, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1976 Census, Victoria (a) (b)
Weighted Persons aged 15 years and over (c), with a Qualification (d)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Field of Attainment	no.	no.	%	%
Teacher training, education	46	64,430	4.17	11.77
Fine, applied arts	7	7,037	0.64	1.29
Social, behavioural	7	10,318	0.64	1.88
Commercial, business	50	37,485	4.54	6.85
Medicine and health	149	73,658	13.52	13.45
Engineering, technology	14	28,100	1.27	5.13
Architecture, building	172	56,961	15.61	10.40
Agriculture, forestry	16	7,667	1.45	1.40
Transport, communication	12	5,712	1.09	1.04
Police, law enforcement and other public safety	7	1,314	0.64	0.24
Metal and electrical trades	186	77,867	16.88	14.22
Vehicle trades	93	24,047	8.44	4.39
Other trades	125	46,055	11.34	8.41
Service trades	141	32,739	12.79	5.98
Other field of study	63	69,324	5.72	12.66
Field of study not specified	6	3,438	0.54	0.63
Inadequately described	8	1,348	0.73	0.25
Total	1,102	547,500	100.00	100.00

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

(a) Statistics in this table relate to where people live (i.e. Usual Residence). Please refer to Glossary.
(b) Any discrepancies between sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.
(c) Weighted persons - please refer to Glossary.
(d) Post-school educational qualification

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1976 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.