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QUALIFICATIONS IN HEALTH The vast majority (942,500 or 88%) of this group indicated that a Health qualification was their highest non-school qualification. The remaining 123,500 (12%) reported that their highest qualification was in a different field. Almost two-thirds (62%) of people with higher level Health qualifications had a university level qualification in Health, including 12% whose highest degree was at the postgraduate level, and 50% whose highest Health qualification was a Bachelor degree to Graduate diploma. A further 23% reported a Diploma or Advanced diploma as their highest Health qualification, and 15% a Certificate III or IV.
HIGHEST LEVEL OF HEALTH QUALIFICATION, 2010-11 Source: ABS Survey of Learning and Work, 2010-11. In contrast to the STEM fields, women accounted for around three quarters (76%) of those with higher level Health qualifications. Women made up the majority of Health graduates across all levels of qualification, though the proportion of females was higher among those whose highest Health qualification was at the Certificate III or IV level (82%) than at the postgraduate level (63%). DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS The median age of those with Health qualifications (46 years) was slightly higher than that of both the STEM qualified population (44 years), and those with qualifications in other fields (41 years). Just over half (52%) of those with Health qualifications were aged 45 years and over, compared with 42% of those with qualifications in other non-STEM fields. POPULATION WITH NON-STEM QUALIFICATIONS, BY AGE AND FIELD, 2010-11 (a) Other than STEM fields. Source: ABS Survey of Learning and Work, 2010-11. The vast majority (87%) of those with higher level Health qualifications had attained a Health qualification in Australia, and around one in six (16%) had a Health qualification attained in another country. Of those who were born overseas and came to Australia aged 15 years and over, two-thirds (66%) had a Health qualification attained in another country.
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