The Mersey-Lyell Region recorded 4,944 and 5,429 apprentices and trainees in training during 2001 and 2002, which accounted for 25.4% and 25.9% of Tasmania's apprentices and trainees respectively for the same period.
More males than females were employed as apprentices and trainees for 2001 and 2002 in the Mersey-Lyell Region. For both of these years, the most common employment group for male trainees and apprentices in the Mersey-Lyell Region was other intermediate production and transport workers with 576 males in 2001, and 512 males in 2002. The most common employment group for female trainees in 2001 was intermediate clerical workers (476 females), while for 2002 the most common employment group for females was intermediate service workers (508 females).
APPRENTICES AND TRAINEES IN TRAINING - Mersey-Lyell Region(a)(b)
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 | | | | 2001
| 2002
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| | | | Males | Females | Persons | Males | Females | Persons |
Occupation being trained for |
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| Managers, professionals & associate professionals | 69 | 40 | 109 | 82 | 68 | 150 |
| Tradespersons & related workers | | | | | | |
| Mechanical & fabrication engineering | 224 | - | 224 | 207 | - | 207 |
| Automotive | np | np | 136 | np | np | 155 |
| Electrical & electronics | 118 | - | 118 | 126 | - | 126 |
| Construction | np | np | 122 | 141 | - | 141 |
| Food | 124 | 62 | 186 | 118 | 63 | 181 |
| Skilled agricultural & horticultural | 20 | 5 | 25 | np | np | 24 |
| Other trades | 108 | 116 | 224 | 88 | 111 | 199 |
| Advanced clerical, sales & services workers | 8 | 64 | 72 | 10 | 85 | 95 |
| Intermediate clerical, sales & service workers | | | | | | |
| Intermediate clerical | 74 | 476 | 550 | 96 | 455 | 551 |
| Intermediate sales & related | 135 | 116 | 251 | 200 | 238 | 438 |
| Intermediate service | 99 | 449 | 548 | 109 | 508 | 617 |
| Intermediate production & transport workers | | | | | | |
| Intermediate plant | 130 | - | 130 | 181 | - | 181 |
| Intermediate machine | 97 | 48 | 145 | 77 | 84 | 161 |
| Road & rail | np | np | 50 | 85 | 10 | 95 |
| Other intermediate production & transport | 576 | 26 | 602 | 512 | 20 | 532 |
| Elementary clerical, sales & service workers | | | | | | |
| Elementary clerks | 128 | 144 | 272 | 101 | 110 | 211 |
| Elementary sales | 125 | 396 | 521 | 135 | 495 | 630 |
| Elementary service | 53 | 34 | 87 | 60 | 16 | 76 |
| Labourers & related workers | 420 | 152 | 572 | 487 | 172 | 659 |
| Total in training | 2,810 | 2,134 | 4,944 | 2,989 | 2,440 | 5,429 |
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| Number in training as at 31 December(c) | 1,913 | 1,319 | 3,232 | 1,992 | 1,452 | 3,444 |
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- 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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