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BaselineMonitoringReport Educational Attainment in the Adult Population ← Cross Strategy Indicators | Home Page | Outcomes of Tertiary Education → More people have tertiary qualifications …The proportion of the adult population with a tertiary qualification has gradually increased, from 43 percent of the adult population in 1997, to 46 percent in 2002. This pattern reflects increased participation in tertiary education over this time. Over this period, the number of people with degrees grew by nearly 29 percent, while the number of people whose highest qualification is a tertiary qualification below degree level grew by nine percent. (These figures are based on highest qualifications, so they do not count the number of other tertiary qualifications held in addition to degrees and, therefore, undercount the number of qualifications below degree level.) The number of people with no qualifications decreased by 8.5 percent over the same period.
… but differences between ethnic groups persist.The distribution of school and tertiary qualifications varied across ethnic groups. In 2001, Māori and Pasifika peoples were less likely to have a tertiary qualification than people in other ethnic groups. They were also more likely to have no qualifications. Asians were more likely to have a tertiary degree than other ethnic groups and less likely to have no qualifications. The gender differences within ethnic groups were fairly small. Māori and Pasifika women were more likely to be tertiary qualified than their male counterparts. In the European and Asian populations, men were slightly more likely to hold a tertiary qualification.
People in younger age groups are more likely to have tertiary qualificationsAttainment of highest qualifications by age and gender shows the changing pattern of engagement in tertiary education over time. It is affected by the historical participation of men and women in tertiary education, as well as the current participation across age groups. In 2001, people aged 25 to 55 were more likely to hold degrees than people in older age groups. For those under 30, there was a greater proportion of women than men with degrees. This was reversed in the older age groups where men were more likely to hold degrees than women. For other tertiary qualifications, the gender differences were less marked overall. People between 30 and 55 were more likely to hold one of these qualifications as their highest qualification than those in other age groups. In those aged under 30 years, women were more likely than men to hold one of these qualifications as their highest qualification. In the older age groups there was a fairly close parity between genders.
Tertiary education attainment in New Zealand is close to OECD averageNew Zealand is close to the OECD mean for the proportion of the population with tertiary degree qualifications. The proportion with tertiary qualifications below degree level is somewhat higher than the OECD mean1. ← Cross Strategy Indicators | Home Page | Outcomes of Tertiary Education → Page last modified on 26 November 2006, at 06:29 PM |
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