Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Marriage Partnerships
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 15
Year published: 2013
The Indigenous population is projected to continue to grow at a much faster rate than the non-Indigenous population over at least the next 20 years. One explanation for this rapid growth is a high rate of mixed marriage partnerships with the children of these partnerships tending to be identified…
Labour Market Outcomes
Author/editor: Gray, MC, Howlett, M, Hunter, B
Paper no: 10
Year published: 2013
While recent research has found that there has been a substantial increase in Indigenous mainstream employment since the mid-1990s, there has been relatively little regional analysis of mainstream employment or the extent to which the nature of Indigenous employment has altered in what has…
Mobility
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Markham, F
Paper no: 9
Year published: 2013
This paper aims to provide an updated description of the migration patterns of Indigenous Australians over the last intercensal period and to compare these with previous patterns, as well as those from the non-Indigenous population. Indigenous Australians are a highly mobile population. They were…
Population Projections
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 14
Year published: 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide a preliminary set of projections at the national and regional level for the Australian Indigenous population. Using population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the most recently available vital-statistics data, it is projected that the…
Regional Centres
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Markham, F
Paper no: 12
Year published: 2013
Regional centres are an important but often overlooked set of areas with particular policy and population dynamics. In this paper, we identify 43 regional centres which we have defined as having a total population of between 10,000 and 250,000 with at least 1,000 Indigenous usual residents. These…
Residential Segregation: Income and Housing Dimensions
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 16
Year published: 2013
Where a person lives has the potential to shape their choices and outcomes. It is reasonably well established that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) Australians are more likely to live in remote areas than the non-Indigenous population and that this has implications for their…
Socioeconomic Outcomes
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 13
Year published: 2013
CAEPR has a tradition of producing indices of Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes to support the work of Indigenous peoples and organisations in advocating for improved resources based on relative need, as well as of governments in targeting services where they will have the greatest impact on the…