Towards an index of relative Indigenous socioeconomic disadvantage
Author/editor: Gray, MC, Auld, AJ
Paper no: 196
Year published: 2000
Understanding geographic variations in the socioeconomic status of Indigenous peoples is of importance when developing policies aimed at reducing the level of Indigenous disadvantage. Knowledge of geographic variations in socioeconomic status provides an understanding of some of the…
Transformations of the Indigenous population: Recent and future trends
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 194
Year published: 2000
By the 1970s, the Indigenous population had undergone a series of systematic fluctuations in fertility and mortality levels, uneven over space and time, but ultimately comprehensive and uniform in effect. Current interest is on progress in the prevailing demographic regime of declining…
Career, aspirations and the meaning of work in remote Australia: Torres Strait
Author/editor: Arthur, W
Paper no: 190
Year published: 1999
The Indigenous Policy Unit of the Department of Family and Community Services (DFaCS) has commissioned the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Research to carry out research aimed at determining how the aspirations of young Indigenous people in remote regions match the Department's income support…
Changing places: Indigenous population movement in the 1990s
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Bell, M
Paper no: 189
Year published: 1999
This paper presents selected measures of Indigenous population mobility using 1996 Census data and compares these with equivalent measures for the non-Indigenous population. There are two parts to the exercise. The first comprises an examination of relative propensities to move according to the age…
Determinants of employment and labour force participation: A cohort analysis of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, 1986-96
Author/editor: Gray, MC, Hunter, B
Paper no: 186
Year published: 1999
Data from the 1986, 1991 and 1996 Censuses is used to conduct a cohort analysis of the probability of employment and participating in the labour force for Indigenous and non-Indigenous males and females. Single-year age cohorts are used in the first ever…
Feast, famine and fraud: Considerations in the delivery of banking and financial services to remote Indigenous communities
Author/editor: Westbury, N
Paper no: 187
Year published: 1999
The ability of Indigenous people to manage and budget their income, arrange to pay third parties, purchase food, goods and services, and maintain a level of financial and economic independence and planning, are all reliant on maintaining informed access to appropriate banking and financial services…
Income fluctuations over the lifecycle: A cohort analysis of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, 1986-96
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Gray, MC
Paper no: 183
Year published: 1999
The myth of equality in Australian society is clearly exposed by the large income gap between Indigenous and other Australians. Data from the 1986, 1991 and 1996 Censuses is used to conduct a cohort analysis of the income distributions for Indigenous and non-Indigenous males and females. Single-…