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1991

Age left school, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin and Sex - 1991 Census, Victoria (a)
Persons aged 15 years and over

	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Age left school	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%
MALE
Still at school	262	64	87,467	6.61	6.63	5.34
Did not go to school	81	11	16,182	2.04	1.14	0.99
14 years and under	727	161	253,100	18.34	16.67	15.45
15 years	947	222	248,591	23.89	22.98	15.18
16 years	756	202	276,431	19.07	20.91	16.87
17 years	459	133	275,387	11.58	13.77	16.81
18 years	187	53	180,653	4.72	5.49	11.03
19 years and over	140	39	165,722	3.53	4.04	10.12
Not stated	405	81	134,619	10.22	8.39	8.22
Total	3,964	966	1,638,152	100.00	100.00	100.00
FEMALE
Still at school	283	58	88,295	6.51	5.86	5.15
Did not go to school	67	6	22,098	1.54	0.61	1.29
14 years and under	724	142	281,401	16.65	14.34	16.42
15 years	975	216	262,685	22.42	21.82	15.33
16 years	854	212	292,092	19.64	21.41	17.04
17 years	586	168	308,774	13.47	16.97	18.02
18 years	252	71	176,566	5.79	7.17	10.30
19 years and over	133	32	127,979	3.06	3.23	7.47
Not stated	475	85	154,015	10.92	8.59	8.99
Total	4,349	990	1,713,905	100.00	100.00	100.00
PERSONS
Still at school	545	122	175,762	6.56	6.24	5.24
Did not go to school	148	17	38,280	1.78	0.87	1.14
14 years and under	1,451	303	534,501	17.45	15.49	15.95
15 years	1,922	438	511,276	23.12	22.39	15.25
16 years	1,610	414	568,523	19.37	21.17	16.96
17 years	1,045	301	584,161	12.57	15.39	17.43
18 years	439	124	357,219	5.28	6.34	10.66
19 years and over	273	71	293,701	3.28	3.63	8.76
Not stated	880	166	288,634	10.59	8.49	8.61
Total	8,313	1,956	3,352,057	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.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1991 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Type of Educational Institution Attended (Full time / Part time) by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin - 1991 Census, Victoria (a)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Educational institution	no.	no.	%	%
Pre-school (b)	435	62,513	2.61	1.46
Infant/primary(b):
Government	2,030	274,918	12.16	6.41
Non-government	311	113,113	1.86	2.64
Total infant/primary	2,341	388,031	14.02	9.05
Secondary(b):
Government	1,253	207,991	7.50	4.85
Non-government	203	116,097	1.22	2.71
Total secondary	1,456	324,088	8.72	7.56
TAFE college(b)	387	90,451	2.32	2.11
CAE/university(b)	325	150,236	1.95	3.50
Other(b)	118	35,683	0.71	0.83
Educational institution not stated(c)	683	65,217	4.09	1.52
Attendance not stated(d)	651	156,046	3.90	3.64
Not attending	10,300	3,015,619	61.69	70.33
TOTAL	16,696	4,287,884	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) Includes persons whose full-time/part-time student status was not stated, but institution was stated.
(c) Full-time/part-time student stated, but institution not stated.
(d) Full-time/part-time student not stated and institution not stated.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1991 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Level of Educational Attainment (a) by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin - 1991 Census, Victoria (b) Persons aged 15 years and over.

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Level of qualification	no.	no.	%	%
Has qualification(c):
Higher degree	12	31,874	0.12	0.95
Postgraduate diploma	32	39,542	0.31	1.18
Bachelor degree	130	207,481	1.27	6.19
Undergraduate diploma	131	131,594	1.28	3.93
Associate diploma	53	41,948	0.52	1.25
Skilled vocational	687	324,098	6.69	9.67
Basic vocational	216	95,455	2.10	2.85
Level inadequately described	62	24,835	0.60	0.74
Level not stated	340	136,069	3.31	4.06
Total with a qualification	1,663	1,032,896	16.19	30.81
No qualifications(d)	7,763	2,074,044	75.60	61.87
Not stated(e)	843	245,117	8.21	7.31
TOTAL	10,269	3,352,057	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) Includes persons who were recorded as having at least one level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.
(d) Includes persons with a qualification outside the scope of the ABS Classification of Qualifications.
(e) Includes persons who did not state whether they had a qualification and did not state a level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1991 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Field of Attainment, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1991 Census, Victoria (a)
Persons aged 15 years and over, with a Qualification (b), (c).

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Field of Attainment	no.	no.	%	%
Business and administration	172	142,406	10.34	13.79
Health	166	130,044	9.98	12.59
Education	98	112,213	5.89	10.86
Society and culture	194	113,858	11.67	11.02
Natural and physical sciences	56	55,149	3.37	5.34
Engineering	390	263,854	23.45	25.55
Architecture and building	188	80,255	11.30	7.77
Agriculture and related fields	48	21,175	2.89	2.05
Miscellaneous fields	184	65,789	11.06	6.37
Field inadequately described	77	23,579	4.63	2.28
Field not stated	90	24,574	5.41	2.38
Total	1,663	1,032,896	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) Post-school educational qualification
(c) Includes persons who were recorded as having at least one level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1991 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

1993

Indigenous Students in all Schools - By Age, Sex and Level / Year of Education, Victoria, 1993.

Age (in years) at 1 July
Level/Year of education	5 and under	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20 and over (b)	Total
MALES
Primary
Preparatory	118	40	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	162
Year 1	2	117	36	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	160
Year 2	-	1	111	34	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	147
Year 3	-	-	2	138	30	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	171
Year 4	-	-	-	4	108	40	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	153
Year 5	-	-	-	-	4	116	30	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	151
Year 6	-	-	-	-	-	-	106	35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	141
Ungraded primary	-	-	-	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Total primary	120	158	153	182	145	158	138	36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1,090
Secondary
Year 7	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	90	28	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	124
Year 8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	76	36	4	-	-	-	-	-	117
Year 9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	66	23	4	-	-	-	-	94
Year 10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	60	24	4	-	-	-	90
Year 11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	30	12	1	2	-	45
Year 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	14	8	2	1	27
Ungraded secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	3	2	1	-	-	1	11
Total secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	92	107	108	90	62	31	9	4	2	508
TOTAL	120	158	153	182	145	158	141	128	107	108	90	62	31	9	4	2	1,598

(a) Full-time students only.
(b) Includes age unspecified.

Source: Unpublished data, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Schools, Australia, 1993 (4221.0)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

1996

Age left school, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin and Sex - 1996 Census, Victoria(a)
Persons aged 15 years and over.

	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Both Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander(b)	Total Victoria	Aboriginal	Torres Strait Islander	Both Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander(b)	Total Victoria
Age left school	no.	no.	no.	no.	%	%	%	%
MALE
Still at school	345	41	11	88,206	6.43	4.77	6.43	5.20
Never attended school	76	16	6	12,291	1.42	1.86	3.51	0.73
14 Years and under	910	127	42	238,079	16.97	14.78	24.56	14.04
15 Years	1,090	177	32	243,280	20.33	20.61	18.71	14.35
16 Years	1,014	157	24	282,008	18.91	18.28	14.04	16.64
17 Years	786	127	21	345,172	14.66	14.78	12.28	20.36
18 Years	439	73	11	263,956	8.19	8.50	6.43	15.57
19 Years and over	201	47	4	103,034	3.75	5.47	2.34	6.08
Not stated	501	94	20	119,109	9.34	10.94	11.70	7.03
Total	5,362	859	171	1,695,135	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
FEMALE
Still at school	399	32	17	90,167	6.97	3.75	9.29	5.03
Never attended school	42	11	7	18,481	0.73	1.29	3.83	1.03
14 Years and under	878	114	30	269,426	15.33	13.35	16.39	15.04
15 Years	1,191	177	30	254,184	20.80	20.73	16.39	14.19
16 Years	1,070	168	36	294,604	18.69	19.67	19.67	16.45
17 Years	947	126	23	386,572	16.54	14.75	12.57	21.59
18 Years	503	99	9	259,129	8.78	11.59	4.92	14.47
19 Years and over	203	43	4	85,426	3.55	5.04	2.19	4.77
Not stated	493	84	27	132,926	8.61	9.84	14.75	7.42
Total	5,726	854	183	1,790,915	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00
PERSONS
Still at school	744	73	28	178,373	6.71	4.26	7.91	5.12
Never attended school	118	27	13	30,772	1.06	1.58	3.67	0.88
14 Years and under	1,788	241	72	507,505	16.13	14.07	20.34	14.56
15 Years	2,281	354	62	497,464	20.57	20.67	17.51	14.27
16 Years	2,084	325	60	576,612	18.80	18.97	16.95	16.54
17 Years	1,733	253	44	731,744	15.63	14.77	12.43	20.99
18 Years	942	172	20	523,085	8.50	10.04	5.65	15.01
19 Years and over	404	90	8	188,460	3.64	5.25	2.26	5.41
Not stated	994	178	47	252,035	8.96	10.39	13.28	7.23
Total	11,088	1,713	354	3,486,050	100.00	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) Persons whose origin was recorded as both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Please refer to Glossary.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Type of Educational Institution Attended (Full time / Part time) by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin - 1996 Census, Victoria (a)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Educational Institution	no.	no.	%	%
Pre-school(b)	492	59,316	2.29	1.34
Infants/primary(b):
Government	3,052	283,833	14.20	6.43
Catholic	344	94,953	1.60	2.15
Other non-government	100	30,213	0.47	0.68
Total infants/primary	3,496	408,999	16.27	9.27
Secondary(b):
Government	1,471	197,120	6.85	4.47
Catholic	164	70,152	0.76	1.59
Other non-government	119	50,786	0.55	1.15
Total secondary	1,754	318,058	8.16	7.21
Technical or further education(b)	618	104,672	2.88	2.37
University or other tertiary(b)	409	171,107	1.90	3.88
Other(b)	121	28,682	0.56	0.65
Educational institution not stated(c)	935	39,162	4.35	0.89
Attendance not stated(d)	978	181,326	4.55	4.11
Not attending	12,686	3,102,859	59.03	70.29
TOTAL	21,489	4,414,181	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) Includes persons whose full-time/part-time student status was not stated, but institution was stated.
(c) Full-time/part-time student stated, but institution not stated.
(d) Full-time/part-time student not stated and institution not stated.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

Level of Educational Attainment (a) by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1996 Census, Victoria (b)
Persons aged 15 years and over

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Level of qualification	no.	no.	%	%
Has qualification(c):
Higher degree	43	46,576	0.33	1.34
Postgraduate diploma	88	58,385	0.67	1.67
Bachelor degree	361	292,401	2.74	8.39
Undergraduate diploma	192	122,107	1.46	3.50
Associate diploma	249	91,387	1.89	2.62
Skilled vocational	926	347,523	7.04	9.97
Basic vocational	307	86,102	2.33	2.47
Level inadequately described	66	25,696	0.50	0.74
Level not stated	408	109,183	3.10	3.13
Total with a qualification	2,640	1,179,360	20.07	33.83
No qualifications(d)	9,132	2,032,948	69.42	58.32
Not stated(e)	1,383	273,742	10.51	7.85
TOTAL	13,155	3,486,050	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) Includes persons who were recorded as having at least one level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.
(d) Includes persons with a qualification outside the scope of the ABS Classification of Qualifications.
(e) Includes persons who did not state whether they had a qualification and did not state a level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

Field of Attainment, by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Origin-1996 Census, Victoria (a)
Persons aged 15 years and over, with a Qualification (b), (c)

	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria	Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander	Total Victoria
Field of attainment	no.	no.	%	%
Business and administration	335	188,304	12.69	15.97
Health	253	137,310	9.58	11.64
Education	180	123,639	6.82	10.48
Society and culture	480	150,276	18.18	12.74
Natural and physical sciences	117	74,813	4.43	6.34
Engineering	527	279,580	19.96	23.71
Architecture and building	218	84,183	8.26	7.14
Agriculture and related fields	87	26,075	3.30	2.21
Miscellaneous fields	262	70,726	9.92	6.00
Field inadequately described	41	14,158	1.55	1.20
Field not stated	140	30,296	5.30	2.57
Total	2,640	1,179,360	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) Post-school educational qualification
(c) Includes persons who were recorded as having at least one level of qualification, field of qualification or year of qualification.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 Census of Population and Housing.
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

1999

Indigenous Students - Females (a) in all schools, by Age, Sex and Level/Year of Education, Victoria, 1999

Age (in years) at 1 July
Level/Year of education	5 and under	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20 and over (b)	Total
FEMALES
Primary:
Preparatory	169	74	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	245
Year 1	1	187	76	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	268
Year 2	-	2	181	91	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	275
Year 3	-	-	3	186	101	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	291
Year 4	-	-	1	2	186	49	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	241
Year 5	-	-	-	-	3	184	54	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	242
Year 6	-	-	-	-	1	3	152	55	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	213
Ungraded primary	2	1	-	4	1	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16
Total primary	172	264	263	287	293	242	212	56	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1,791
Secondary:
Year 7	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	164	42	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	214
Year 8	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4	155	49	2	-	-	-	-	-	211
Year 9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	131	49	3	-	-	-	-	185
Year 10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	106	34	3	-	1	-	148
Year 11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	79	34	7	1	-	126
Year 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	41	14	3	3	64
Ungraded secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	4	4	3	4	-	-	-	19
Total secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	168	203	190	167	122	82	21	5	3	967
TOTAL	172	264	263	287	293	242	218	224	205	190	167	122	82	21	5	3	2,758

(a) Full-time students only
(b) Includes age unspecified.

Source: Unpublished data, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Schools, Australia, 1999 (4221.0)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Indigenous Students - Males (a) in all schools, by Age, Sex and Level/Year of Education, Victoria, 1999

Age (in years) at 1 July
Level/Year of education	5 and under	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20 and over (b)	Total
MALES
Primary:
Preparatory	194	93	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	290
Year 1	-	171	98	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	276
Year 2	-	3	191	85	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	284
Year 3	-	1	1	144	93	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	241
Year 4	-	-	-	1	162	83	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	251
Year 5	-	-	-	-	6	162	83	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	254
Year 6	-	-	-	-	-	2	142	67	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	217
Ungraded primary	1	-	5	5	1	5	7	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25
Total primary	195	268	298	242	267	253	238	71	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	1,838
Secondary:
Year 7	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	136	59	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	203
Year 8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	127	73	10	-	-	-	-	-	214
Year 9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	127	51	4	1	-	-	-	185
Year 10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	97	53	6	-	-	-	159
Year 11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	42	29	2	2	1	78
Year 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	24	16	2	-	43
Ungraded secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	7	8	3	6	3	-	-	-	29
Total secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	142	195	215	164	105	63	18	4	1	911
TOTAL	195	268	298	242	267	253	242	213	199	217	164	105	63	18	4	1	2,749

(a) Full-time students only
(b) Includes age unspecified.

Source: Unpublished data, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Schools, Australia, 1999 (4221.0)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Indigenous Students - Persons (a) in all schools, by Age, Sex and Level/Year of Education, Victoria, 1999

Age (in years) at 1 July
Level/Year of education	5 and under	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20 and over (b)	Total
PERSONS
Primary:
Preparatory	363	167	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	535
Year 1	1	358	174	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	544
Year 2	-	5	372	176	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	559
Year 3	-	1	4	330	194	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	532
Year 4	-	-	1	3	348	132	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	492
Year 5	-	-	-	-	9	346	137	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	496
Year 6	-	-	-	-	1	5	294	122	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	430
Ungraded primary	3	1	5	9	2	10	10	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	41
Total primary	367	532	561	529	560	495	450	127	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	3,629
Secondary:
Year 7	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	300	101	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	417
Year 8	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	8	282	122	12	-	-	-	-	-	425
Year 9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	258	100	7	1	-	-	-	370
Year 10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	203	87	9	-	1	-	307
Year 11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	121	63	9	3	1	204
Year 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	65	30	5	3	107
Ungraded secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	11	12	7	9	7	-	-	-	48
Total secondary	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	310	398	405	331	227	145	39	9	4	1,878
TOTAL	367	532	561	529	560	495	460	437	404	407	331	227	145	39	9	4	5,507

(a) Full-time students only
(b) Includes age unspecified.

Source: Unpublished data, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Schools, Australia, 1999 (4221.0)
© Commonwealth of Australia, 2000

Statistics provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.