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Title Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes : a focus on the 2002 NATSISS / B.H. Hunter (editor).

Imprint Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 349 pages) : illustrations
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Series CAEPR research monograph / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1036-6962 ; no. 26
Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340).
Summary Presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the CAEPR conference on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence, held at The Australian National University in August 2005. Presents the latest evidence on Indigenous economic and social status, and family and community life, and discusses its implications for government policy. Analyses the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) outputs and issues about how to interpret the data and offers some assessment of changes in Indigenous social conditions over time, examining how Indigenous people fared vis-à-vis other Australians in other statistical collections.
Contents 1. Towards a history of Indigenous statistics in Australia -- 2. Statistical needs in Indigenous affairs: the role of the 2002 NATSISS -- 3. The 2002 NATSISS-the ABS survey methodology and concepts -- 4. Selected methodological issues for anaylsis os the 2002 NATSISS -- 5. Differentials and determinants of Indigenous population mobility -- 6. Aboriginal child mortality in Australia: Recent levels and covariates -- 7. Understanding housing outcomes for Indigenous Australians: waht can the 2002 NATSISS add? -- 8. Revisiting the poverty war: income status and financial stress among Indigenous Australians -- 9. Family and community life -- 10. Labour market issues -- 11. Asking the right questions? -- 12. The real 'real' economy in remote Australia -- 13. Panel discussion: Diverse perspectives on the evidence -- 14. Education and training: the 2002 NATSISS -- 15. Indigenous Australians and transport-what can the NATSISS tell us? -- 16. Information and Communication Technology -- 17. Health -- 18. Substance use in the 2002 NATSISS -- 19. Crime and justice issues -- 20. Culture -- 21. Language -- 22. Torres Strait Islanders and the national survey model -- 23. Social justice and human rights: using Indigenous socioeconomic data in policy development -- 24. Influencing Indigenous policy making with statistics.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions.
Economics, finance, business and management.
Economics.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
Aboriginal Australians -- Economic conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Added Author Hunter, B. H. (Boyd H.)
Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.
Added Title National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS), 2002
Other Form: Print version: 192094219X
ISBN 1920942645 (electronic bk.)
9781920942649 (electronic bk.)
9781920942199
192094219X
Standard No. AU@ 000040277891
AU@ 000058392154
GBVCP 865752125
GBVCP 1008650765
AU@ 000073247655
AU@ 000075730641

 
    
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