The Greater Hobart-Southern Region recorded 9,037 and 9,438 apprentices and trainees in training during 2001 and 2002, which accounted for 46.4% and 45.1% of Tasmania's apprentices and trainees for the same period respectively.
More males than females were employed as apprentices and trainees for 2001 and 2002 in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region. In 2002, males accounted for 55.4% (5,229) of all apprentices and trainees in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, with females accounting for 44.6% (4,209).
In 2002, the most common employment groups for male trainees and apprentices in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region were labourers and related workers (837 males) and other intermediate production and transport workers (503 males). For female trainees and apprentices, intermediate service workers (1,003 females), and intermediate clerical workers (879 females) were the most common employment groups.
APPRENTICES AND TRAINEES IN TRAINING - Greater Hobart-Southern Region(a)(b)
|
 | | | | 2001
| 2002
|
| | | | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | Persons |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Occupation being trained for | | no. | no. | no. | no. | no. | no. |
|
| Managers, professionals & associate professionals | 263 | 114 | 377 | 275 | 131 | 406 |
| Tradespersons & related workers | | | | | | |
| Mechanical & fabrication engineering | np | np | 246 | np | np | 200 |
| Automotive | 214 | - | 214 | 210 | - | 210 |
| Electrical & electronics | 234 | 4 | 238 | np | np | 228 |
| Construction | np | np | 305 | np | np | 357 |
| Food | 283 | 132 | 415 | 304 | 132 | 436 |
| Skilled agricultural & horticultural | np | np | 26 | np | np | 25 |
| Other trades | 117 | 182 | 299 | 105 | 176 | 281 |
| Advanced clerical, sales & services workers | 14 | 86 | 100 | 21 | 135 | 156 |
| Intermediate clerical, sales & service workers | | | | | | |
| Intermediate clerical | 183 | 757 | 940 | 288 | 879 | 1,167 |
| Intermediate sales & related | 198 | 241 | 439 | 300 | 400 | 700 |
| Intermediate service | 276 | 817 | 1,093 | 344 | 1,003 | 1,347 |
| Intermediate production & transport workers | | | | | | |
| Intermediate plant | 287 | 5 | 292 | np | np | 270 |
| Intermediate machine | 44 | 13 | 57 | 46 | 13 | 59 |
| Road & rail | 193 | 29 | 222 | 284 | 69 | 353 |
| Other intermediate production & transport | 623 | 106 | 729 | 503 | 93 | 596 |
| Elementary clerical, sales & service workers | | | | | | |
| Elementary clerks | 322 | 454 | 776 | 243 | 329 | 572 |
| Elementary sales | 286 | 616 | 902 | 228 | 453 | 681 |
| Elementary service | 175 | 34 | 209 | 175 | 31 | 206 |
| Labourers & related workers | 830 | 328 | 1,158 | 837 | 351 | 1,188 |
| Total in training | 5,112 | 3,925 | 9,037 | 5,229 | 4,209 | 9,438 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Number in training as at 31 December(c) | 3,388 | 2,331 | 5,719 | 3,546 | 2,687 | 6,233 |
|
- nil or rounded to zero
np not available for publication, but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated
(a) Counts of apprentices and trainees are based on data available at April 2, 2003. Region determined by residential postcode.
(b) At any time during 2001 and 2002.
(c) The numbers at 31 December (end of year) are shown for comparison.
Source: Office of Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Department of Education. |
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