National and state education and training summary tables

PARTICIPANTS
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
1	School students(a)	'000	3,099	3,109	3,143	3,172	3,199	3,227	3,247	3,268	3,302	3,319	3,332
2	Students in government schools(a)	%	71.5	71.0	70.7	70.3	70.0	69.7	69.2	68.8	68.4	67.9	67.5
3	Females - of all Year 11 and 12 students(a)	%	51.4	51.8	51.8	51.8	52.0	52.1	52.1	51.8	51.5	51.4	51.6
4	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - males(b)	%	69.6	66.7	65.9	66.2	65.9	66.4	66.1	68.1	69.8	70.3	70.4
5	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - females(b)	%	79.9	77.9	77.0	77.8	77.7	78.5	78.7	79.1	80.7	80.7	81.2
6	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - Indigenous(b)	%	32.5	30.6	29.2	30.9	32.1	34.7	36.4	35.7	38.0	39.1	39.5
7	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - non-Indigenous(b)	%	76.5	73.2	72.4	72.9	72.7	73.2	73.3	74.5	76.3	76.5	76.8
8	Education participation - of all aged 15-19(c)	%	72.9	73.9	74.0	77.4	76.9	77.8	77.6	77.4	77.3	77.5	76.2
9	Education participation - of all aged 20-24(c)	%	26.6	28.0	31.5	31.0	32.1	34.4	34.4	34.8	37.2	37.5	37.7
10	Vocational Education and Training (VET) students(d)(e)(f)	'000	r1,117	r1,269	r1,341	r 1,449	r1,510	r1,615	r1,708	r1,679	r1,683	r1,718	n.y.a
11	Apprentices and trainees(g)	'000	131.0	r138.9	r157.2	r172.0	r193.0	r251.0	r271.3	r310.0	r351.8	r405.3	395.6
12	Females - of all VET students(d)(e)(f)	%	r44.8	r46.2	r46.5	r46.3	47.3	48.7	49.0	48.5	48.1	48.6	n.y.a.
13	Higher education students(h)	'000	585.4	604.2	634.1	658.8	671.9	686.3	695.5	r842.2	r896.6	930.0	n.y.a.
14	Females - of all higher education students(h)	%	53.5	53.9	54.3	54.4	54.7	55.0	55.2	54.4	54.4	54.4	n.y.a.
15	Overseas students - of all higher education students(h)(i)	%	6.9	7.6	8.4	9.6	10.7	12.1	13.7	18.7	20.6	22.6	n.y.a.
EDUCATION OUTCOMES
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	With non-school educational qualifications of all persons aged 15-64 years(j)
16	Of all aged 15-64(k)(l)	%	39.0	41.0	42.3	40.4	41.9	43.7	43.8	47.2	48.2	49.1	50.9
17	Bachelor degree or above	%	11.5	11.9	12.8	13.6	14.3	15.4	15.7	17.0	17.8	18.1	18.9
18	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	27.5	29.1	29.4	26.8	27.6	28.3	28.1	29.1	29.8	30.2	31.3
19	Females - of all with non-school educational qualifications	%	44.1	43.9	44.1	44.6	45.1	45.2	45.8	46.9	46.8	46.5	47.6
	With non-school educational qualifications of all persons aged 25-64(j)
20	Of all aged 25-64(k)(l)	%	44.1	46.4	47.7	45.5	47.3	49.3	49.5	53.3	54.4	55.3	57.5
21	Bachelor degree or above	%	13.4	13.8	14.8	15.6	16.6	17.7	18.1	19.7	20.4	20.9	21.9
22	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	30.8	32.6	32.9	29.9	30.7	31.7	31.4	32.3	33.2	33.4	34.7
23	Higher education students completing courses	'000	138.7	141.0	145.3	155.3	161.7	164.4	170.9	187.0	r200.7	215.1	n.y.a.
	Without non-school educational qualifications of all persons aged 15-64(j)
24	Of all aged 15-64(k)	%	61.0	59.0	57.7	59.6	58.1	56.3	56.2	52.8	51.8	50.9	49.1
25	Did not complete Year 12(m)	%	37.7	36.1	34.8	36.3	34.2	32.7	32.0	36.1	34.9	33.8	32.3
	Reading - proportion of Year 5 students reaching national benchmarks(n)
26	Males	%	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	83.4(k)	85.2	87.8	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.
27	Females	%	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	88.4(k)	89.6	92	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.
	Numeracy - proportion of Year 5 students reaching national benchmarks
28	Males	%	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	89.4	89.5	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.
29	Females	%	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	89.8	89.8	n.y.a.	n.y.a.	n.y.a.
LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Unemployment rate (aged 15-64)
30	With non-school educational qualifications(j)(k)(l)	%	6.1	5.5	5.3	5.4	5.0	4.6	4.4	4.6	4.2	4.3	3.8
31	Bachelor degree or above	%	4.7	3.6	3.8	3.5	3.1	3.0	3.0	2.8	2.7	3.1	3.0
32	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	6.7	6.3	6.0	6.5	6.0	5.5	5.2	5.7	5.1	5.0	4.3
33	Without non-school educational qualifications(k)	%	13.0	11.1	11.3	11.6	10.9	10.3	9.1	9.6	9.1	8.6	8.0
34	Completed Year 12(m)	%	11.0	9.9	10.0	8.9	8.6	7.7	7.2	7.5	7.0	6.4	6.6
35	Did not complete Year 12(m)	%	13.9	11.7	12.0	13.0	12.2	11.8	10.3	10.8	10.3	10.0	9.0
FINANCIAL RESOURCES
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999(o)	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Government expenses on education(p)
36	Proportion of GDP(o)	%	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.4	n.y.a.
37	Primary and secondary(o)	$'000m	12.2	12.5	13.0	13.9	14.7	17.3	18.2	19.5	21.3	23.3	n.y.a.
38	Tertiary(o)	$'000m	7.1	7.6	7.6	8.1	8.0	11.7	12.1	12.8	13.6	15.1	n.y.a.
HUMAN RESOURCES
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	FTE Student/teaching staff ratio
39	All schools (q)	ratio	15.5	15.4	15.4	15.3	15.3	15.0	14.9	14.7	14.7	14.5	14.3
40	Government schools (q)	ratio	15.4	15.4	15.4	15.3	15.3	14.9	14.9	14.7	14.8	14.6	14.5
41	Primary schools (q)	ratio	18.5	18.2	18.1	17.9	17.9	17.3	17.3	17.0	16.9	16.6	16.4
42	Secondary schools (q)	ratio	12.6	12.7	12.8	12.8	12.8	12.7	12.6	12.5	12.5	12.4	12.3
43	Higher education	ratio	14.7	15.1	15.9	17.3	18.0	18.0	18.3	18.7	19.5	n.y.a.	20.1
	Female teachers/academic staff
44	Of all primary school teachers	%	74.7	76.1	76.2	76.9	77.5	78.0	78.3	78.7	79.1	79.1	79.4
45	Of all secondary school teachers	%	51.3	52.3	52.6	53.1	53.5	54.1	54.4	54.9	55.1	55.3	55.6
46	Of all higher education academic staff(s)	%	32.8	33.5	34.1	34.4	35.1	35.5	36.3	37.5	38.1	38.7	39.5
PROVIDERS
		Units	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
47	Schools	no.	9,679	9,648	9,630	9,609	9,587	9,590	9,609	r9,515	r9,612	9,607	9,615
48	Government schools - of all schools	%	74.0	73.8	73.6	73.2	73.0	72.7	72.6	r72.3	r72.3	72.1	72.2

(a) Refers to full-time students only.
(b) Refers to the number of full-time students in Year 12 divided by the number of full-time students in the first year of secondary school (Year 7 in NSW, the ACT,Vic. and Tas.; Year 8 in Qld, SA, the NT and WA) when the Year 12 cohort began secondary school. Care should be taken in interpreting apparent retention rates as they do not account for students repeating a year or migrating into or out of the relevant school student population.
(c) Data for 1994 refer to courses leading to recognised qualifications only.
(d) Data since 1994 has been revised by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research to account for changes in scope.
(e) Community education providers were included in the collection from 1995, private providers were included from 1996, and VET in schools was included from 1997 to 2001.
(f) In 2003 Queensland introduced a unique student identifier for all students covered by the collection which creates an apparent reduction in overall student numbers when compared with previous annual collections.
(g) Data since 1995 has been revised following a major review of the estimation method. Under the new method, data will not be finalised for eight quarters after initial estimation.
(h) The scope of the data in 2002 is different to that used for reporting students in previous publications in the Selected Higher Education Statistics series. 2001 data has been recalculated by the Department of Education, Science and Training to align with the change in scope. Refer to Students 2002: Selected Higher Education Statistics for more detail.
(i) Prior to 1996, New Zealand students were counted as being overseas students.
(j) There have been three major breaks in the series between 1994 and 2004. The breaks listed below are considered to have impacted on the comparability of data relating to qualifications. In 1994 qualifications of nurses were treated separately, in 1997 prompt cards were no longer used and computer assisted coding methodology was adopted, resulting in changes in the relative distribution within vocational education qualifications, and in 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics Classification of Qualifications (ABSCQ) was replaced by the Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED) (ABS cat. no. 1272.0).
(k) Estimates refer to recognised qualifications only.
(l) Includes persons who have a qualification where the level can not be determined.
(m) Includes persons who are still at school.
(n) In 1999, data do not include a number of Queensland students, who were formally exempted from testing.
(o) Series break due to the introduction of Accrual Accounting in the 1998-99 financial year. Data for the 1998-99 financial year onwards are not comparable with the cash-based estimates in previous financial years.
(p) Prior to 1998-99, this indicator refers to cash outlays on education including capital outlays. From 1998-99 onwards, when accrual accounting was implemented in Government Finance Statistics (GFS), this indicator refers to Operating Expenses and does not include a capital component.
(q) FTE student/teaching staff ratios are calculated by dividing the number of FTE students by the number of FTE teaching staff. Student/teaching staff ratios should not be used as a measure of class size. They do not take account of teacher aides and other non-teaching staff who may also assist in the delivery of school education.
(s) Data cover full-time and fractional full-time staff but exclude casual academic staff.

Reference periods:
Data for indicators 1-7, 39-42, 44-45 and 47-48 are at August, except for 1992-1994 (July).
Data for indicators 8-9, 16-22, 24-25 and 30-35 are at May.
Data for indicators 10-12 are at 30 June.
Data for indicators 13-15, 23, 43 and 46 are at 31 August from 2002 and 31 March prior to 2002.
Data for indicators 26-29 are at August.
Data for indicators 36-38 are for the financial year ending 30 June.

PARTICIPANTS( a )
		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT(a)	ACT	Aust.
1	School students(b)	'000	2004	1 107	822	639	249	336	82	37	60	3 332
2	Students in government schools(b)	%	2004	67.2	65.2	70.2	66.7	68.4	73.8	76.5	59.9	67.5
3	Females - of all Year 11 and 12 students(b)	%	2004	52.1	52.0	51.1	51.8	50.8	52.6	50.5	49.2	51.6
4	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - males(c)	%	2004	66.2	74.4	77.0	61.2	67.9	64.2	54.9	89.6	70.4
5	Year 7/8 to Year 12 apparent retention rate - females(c)	%	2004	76.2	88.2	85.7	75.1	77.5	82.0	63.1	87.3	81.2
6	Education participation - of all aged 15-19	%	2004	78.0	83.0	70.7	69.7	70.3	73.4	55.8	82.6	76.2
7	Education participation - of all aged 20-24	%	2004	39.1	43.8	32.3	31.8	33.4	30.2	*25.0	44.1	37.7
8	Vocational Education and Training (VET) students(d)(e)	'000	2003	588.4	511.2	297.6	112.7	130.4	35.8	19.9	21.8	1 717.8
9	Apprentices and trainees	'000	2004	122.2	120.4	71.5	32.7	26.1	13.9	2.8	5.9	395.6
10	Females - of all VET students(d)(e)	%	2003	50.0	49.0	45.2	50.0	47.8	43.9	48.2	51.8	48.6
11	Higher education students(f)(g)	'000	2003	300.2	236.8	175.7	63.0	92.6	16.5	6.3	26.7	930.0
12	Females - of all higher education students(f)(g)	%	2003	54.0	53.6	54.3	56.1	56.0	50.1	65.8	50.6	54.4
13	Overseas students - of all higher education students(f)(g)	%	2003	22.0	25.5	21.2	23.4	25.2	12.5	4.5	18.8	22.6
EDUCATION OUTCOMES
		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT(a)	ACT	Aust.
	With non-school educational qualifications of all persons aged 15-64 years
14	Of all aged 15-64(h)(i)	%	2004	53.4	50.3	48.7	48.6	49.9	44.4	51.8	57.8	50.9
15	Bachelor degree or above	%	2004	20.1	21.0	16.0	15.8	16.8	13.9	18.3	30.3	18.9
16	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	2004	32.5	28.7	32.1	32.1	32.4	29.6	32.1	27.1	31.3
17	Females - all with non-school educational qualifications	%	2004	47.9	48.0	47.1	46.7	47.0	46.7	44.4	49.8	47.6
	With non-school educational qualifications of all persons aged 25-64
18	Of all aged 25-64(h)(i)	%	2004	60.9	56.6	54.9	54.2	55.9	49.2	57.3	67.5	57.5
19	Bachelor degree or above	%	2004	23.4	24.4	18.3	18.4	19.4	15.8	20.4	36.3	21.9
20	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	2004	36.4	31.5	35.9	35.1	35.5	32.4	35.3	30.8	34.7
21	Higher education students completing courses(j)(f)	'000	2003	70.5	56.0	37.2	15.5	21.6	3.7	1.0	6.8	215.1
	Without non-school educational qualifications
22	Of all aged 15-64(h)(i)	%	2004	46.6	49.7	51.3	51.4	50.1	55.6	48.2	42.2	49.1
23	Did not complete Year 12(k)	%	2004	29.9	32.4	34.2	36.3	32.9	44.1	34.6	20.7	32.3
	Reading - proportion of Year 5 students reaching national benchmarks
24	Males	%	2001	90.5	88.7	80.1	86.5	93.2	92.2	71.0	92.9	87.8
25	Females	%	2001	93.5	93.1	86.3	91.6	95.9	96.6	72.2	96.4	92.0
	Numeracy - proportion of Year 5 students reaching national benchmarks
26	Males	%	2001	91.5	94.4	82.2	85.6	89.7	91.2	69.2	92.2	89.5
27	Females	%	2001	91.8	94.9	81.9	86.2	90.3	92.2	68.3	94.0	89.8
LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES
		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT(a)	ACT	Aust.
	Unemployment rate (aged 15-64)
28	With non-school educational qualifications(h)(i)	%	2004	3.7	4.1	3.7	4.3	3.5	4.0	*1.9	2.0	3.8
29	Bachelor degree or above	%	2004	3.0	2.9	3.0	2.7	3.4	*4.7	**	*1.7	3.0
30	Advanced diploma and diploma or below	%	2004	4.2	5.0	4.2	5.2	3.6	3.7	**	*2.3	4.3
31	Without non-school educational qualifications(h)	%	2004	8.5	7.5	8.2	8.6	7.4	8.5	7.8	6.4	8.0
32	Completed Year 12(k)	%	2004	6.8	5.8	7.8	5.5	6.0	*5.9	**	6.5	6.6
33	Did not complete Year 12(k)	%	2004	9.6	8.6	8.4	10.2	8.3	9.3	*9.2	*6.3	9.0
HUMAN RESOURCES
		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
	FTE Student/teaching staff ratio
34	All schools (l)	ratio	2004	14.6	14.0	14.4	14.6	14.3	14.5	12.8	13.7	14.3
35	Government schools (l)	ratio	2004	14.8	14.2	14.4	14.6	14.3	14.6	12.6	13.0	14.5
36	Primary schools (l)	ratio	2004	17.1	16.3	15.7	16.5	16.4	16.2	14.2	15.4	16.4
37	Secondary schools (l)	ratio	2004	12.3	12.0	12.8	12.3	12.0	12.9	10.6	12.2	12.3
38	Higher education(f)(g)	ratio	2003	20.0	19.9	22.1	18.4	19.8	19.0	20.9	16.9	20.1
	Female teachers/academic staff
39	Of all primary school teachers	%	2004	80.1	80.1	78.2	77.0	79.4	78.6	82.0	83.2	79.4
40	Of all secondary school teachers	%	2004	55.3	57.3	56.5	49.9	53.4	54.7	60.1	60.3	55.6
41	Of all higher education academic staff(g)(m)	%	2004	38.0	42.6	38.3	40.2	38.9	36.3	50.4	32.3	39.5
PROVIDERS
		Units	Years	NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
42	Schools	no.	2004	3 097	2 308	1 733	809	1 064	280	185	139	9 615
43	Government schools - of all schools	%	2004	70.8	70.1	74.1	75.3	72.8	76.4	81.1	69.1	72.2

(a) Estimates for Northern Territory refer to mainly urban areas only for indicators 6-7, 14-20, 22-23 and 28-33.
(b) Refers to full-time students only.
(c) Refers to the number of full-time students in Year 12 divided by the number of full-time students in the first year of secondary school (Year 7 in NSW, the ACT, Vic. and Tas.; Year 8 in Qld, SA, the NT and WA) when the Year 12 cohort began secondary school. Care should be taken in interpreting apparent retention rates as they do not account for students repeating a year or migrating into or out of the relevant school student population.
(d) Excludes VET in schools and students who were granted credit transfer for all of their 2003 enrolment activity.
(e) In 2003 Queensland introduced a unique student identifier for all students covered by the collection which creates an apparent reduction in overall student numbers when compared with previous annual collections.
(f) State and territory totals exclude students of the Australian Catholic University which has campuses in more than one state or territory.
(g) Australian total includes multi-state universities.
(h) Estimates refer to recognised qualifications only.
(i) Includes persons who have a qualification where the level can not be determined.
(j) Excludes VET in schools.
(k) Includes persons who are still at school.
(l) FTE student/teaching staff ratios are calculated by dividing the number of FTE students by the number of FTE teaching staff. Student/teaching staff ratios should not be used as a measure of class size. They do not take account of teacher aides and other non-teaching staff who may also assist in the delivery of school education.
(m) Data cover full-time and fractional full-time staff but exclude casual academic staff.

Reference periods:
Data for indicators 6-7, 14-20, 22-23 and 28-33 are at May.
Data for indicators 8-10 are at 30 June.
Data for all other indicators are at August.

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